On Monday through Thursday nights Brian and I record The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, then watch it together the next early evening. It’s been almost a year, now, since we swore off all network evening news programs, preferring instead to consume our news through the filter of humor, or else reading it on selected online sites. Such are the times we live in, now.
I have this fantasy that Colbert will take his own questionnaire, on air, before his program ends this coming May. Or that at least he might reveal to us what number he’s been thinking of each time he queries his guests. My best guess is that the number changes daily and matches the number of each new episode, or perhaps it is a countdown of the number of shows he has left before his un-renewed contract expires. In my last blog post, I took The Colbert Questionnaire myself, several days ago.
As sad as it is to realize that his current show is winding down, there is no doubt in my mind that Stephen will go on to do great things, and continue fighting fascism in a media format that is not corporate or Trump-controlled. Most of his fans would eagerly follow him almost anywhere, at this point.
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen….
