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Daniel D'Addario
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The final “Late Show” episode ever tried to just be a normal “Late Show” episode, until it couldn’t.
Host Stephen Colbert — in an impossible position since his firing was announced last July, nearly a year before his final episode was to air — creditably did a full-jokes monologue, and then kept telling jokes at the desk. (Notably, he avoided mentioning President Trump, whose first-term rise to prominence fueled Colbert’s own success at CBS, and whose second-term quest for revenge may well have shut it down.) The funniest moment in the show’s first half was Colbert’s mentioning a lawsuit mounted by the composer of the famous “Peanuts” music, after which his band picked up the “Linus and Lucy” theme, as if to threaten a lawsuit against CBS. It was a very funny bit! Colbert’s firing is unfair, and he is right to have some fun.
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