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Stephen Colbert says the Late Show's series finale will air on May 21, the conclusion of a franchise that launched in 1993 with David Letterman (latenighter.com)

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[–] scoobford@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

His last show was the Colbert Report on Comedy Central. He pretended to be an arch-neocon as a bit, which was not only hilarious but also resulted in several high profile right wingers eating the onion.

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[–] adavis@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

I always find the term eating the onion amusing. Especially as a Australian where we had a conservative Prime Minister bite into and eat a raw onion like an apple.

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[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

His character (also named Stephen Colbert) was specifically and primarily based on Bill O'Reilly, who was not pretending. It's why Stephen often referred to Bill as "Papa Bear"

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