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Meh.
I thought it was a good ending.
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The shooting itself was a bit forced but the sing-a-long was great & a good mixture of indulgence and sentiment, which is quite Colbert-like. And, not killing him off works. But, didn’t think the whole Santa Claus/Trebek thing worked. It was like the cab ride after his famous truthiness speech == it went too long & didn’t really work much. The dig at Canada was good.
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I choose to remember just the sing-along; it was sublime.
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I loved the Report, thought it was the best political satire show of my lifetime. But pardon me if I gag at seeing that war criminal Henry Kissinger in the crowd.
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Thank you for nine years of “The Colbert Report.” We counted on you to tell it like it isn’t, because so few can be trusted to tell it like it is.
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You will be missed, Mr. Colbert.
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The dig at Canada or the dig at Ted Cruz?
Hahahahaha!!
Loved it.
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I noted that Henry Kissinger has zero sense of rhythm.
I’m gonna miss Stephen’s character immensely. I love the satire he did.
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I am really going to miss the Report. That being said, I can’t wait to see what Larry Wilmore does with the timeslot.
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Paul Krugman says these folks are not a secret cabal.
I love TPM but I really hate the green washing Chevron Ads that tell us all the ways they are saving the earth and the water that Chevron is responsible for destroying. We know what Chevron stands for. Climate Change and stopping alternative energy.
No Bill O’ Reilly?
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It was like a combination of a Warhol gallery showing, and the Sgt, Pepper album cover, all come to life!
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The number of Pulitzers, Grammys, Oscars and Emmys (even Emilys) on stage were impressive, but in hindsight I’m mildly surprised - check that: shocked; it’s one of those two - that there wasn’t a bigger turn-out from Colbert’s stable of Nobel laureate former guests/trained seals. Krugman being there was lib-on-lib predictable, like belt-tightening against the lower bound, and Kissinger’s a notorious hound (and the Clenis just ACTS like he won one). What happened to all the nerds, like Frank Wilczek and that whole whack-a-doodle of wizards Colbert had on?
I really like Larry Wilmore, and I hope he does very well with it. But it’s not fair at all to expect he’ll hold up well to the standard of the greatest political satirist in the nation’s history, maybe the greatest in history since the ancient Greeks (and I bet even they weren’t putting on 4 shows a week for almost a decade).
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I have no doubt BillO was asked, and I have even less doubt that BillO declined. It was bad enough that Colbert modeled the whole idiot pundit bit so obviously off BillO (heavily gouged with Hannity), worse when Colbert did that home and home thing at the beginning where he danced all over BillO in both shows, worser when Colbert started winning awards BillO won, worser still when Colbert started winning not just multiples of stuff BillO never won and couldn’t even get nominated for, way worser yet when it dawned on BillO that Colbert can snap his fingers for an exclusive with the bro-in-chief, but worst of all would be to watch Colbert, STILL only part way into his public career, get feted like it’s a state Irish wake and career tribute by what appears to be just about everyone BillO envies.
No siree, BillO was NOT about to seen and captured for posterity wallowing in awkward denial at last night’s perloo.
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To be fair, “bomb, bomb, bomb, …bomb bomb Cambodia” just doesn’t work, rythmwise.
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I’m betting that his staff invited ALL former guests. Surprise – some of them might just have had other plans, or were out of the country! The very fact that the stage was FULL of so many is more than adequate testament to Colbert’s humanity. Brought a few tears to my eyes! And I’m also betting he invited Alex Trebek as a shout-out to his thousands of Canadian fans.