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[-] Binette@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

i don't get it. like i get the bird in the mine thing, but who's colbert?

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lib TV host of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, which the network confirmed will end in May 2026, a decision that many are alleging was made due to Colbert's criticism of Trump.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

Really it's because it turned out he wasn't playing a character before hosting the late show

[-] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

For further context, before 2016, he used to satirize right wingers as the character "The Reverend Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World"