Stephen Colbert's Last Report Is Only a Month and a Half Away
We've known for months that it was coming—Stephen Colbert's last day at the Report before he makes the jump to the Late Show—but it was easy to live in denial without a firm date. Well, that blissful bubble of ignorance just popped: Colbert's last show airs December 18.
Longtime Daily Show correspondent Larry Wilmore will take over Colbert's 11:30 time slot, having stepped back from his duties as showrunner on Black-ish. His new show, The Minority Report, could be groundbreaking and very, very good.
But that only partially cushions the blow of losing Colbert. It's not like he's dying—hell, he's getting a bigger audience—but his ingenuous conservative pundit character (also named Stephen Colbert) will disappear when the show ends. I wouldn't blame you for shedding a tear in his memory.
Real Colbert lives on, though, and he's by all accounts a pretty good guy. Looking forward to meeting him in 2015.
