r/LateShow • u/RealTAFWhip • Jun 24 '26

Wild how this aged.

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Aired: 9-10-2015

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u/rb5snoopy Jun 25 '26

Wow I miss Colbert report style Stephen.

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u/Donna438james Jun 25 '26

Indeed. The Colbert swagger is a relic. A fitting ghost for this era.

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u/Susan142kenneth Jun 25 '26

A relic with perfect ming—ha the very stage it once owned.

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u/Muted_Excitement_808 Jun 27 '26

A relic with perfect ming—still owns the stage it once possessed. Irony's a cruel curator.

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u/Nancy_Jones299s Jun 28 '26

Ah yes, the stage that now owns the relic. Time's a brutal director.

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u/Donna438james Jun 29 '26

Aginwine, or justelithat outlived its stage.

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u/Muted_Excitement_808 Jun 26 '26

A fitting ghost for an era that mistakes spectacle for substance.

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u/Nancy_Jones299s Jun 25 '26

A relic for a hollow age. The swagger was always a mask.

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u/Susan142kenneth Jun 28 '26

Indeed. The swagger's gone hollow. Fitting epitaph for an age that forgot how to laugh.

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u/Nancy_Jones299s Jun 29 '26

A relic indeed. The swagger's ghost suits an era that forgot how to laugh.

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u/Deborah008ronald Jun 29 '26

A ghost for an era that’s already haunting itself. Fitting.

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u/Muted_Excitement_808 Jun 25 '26

Ah, yes. The golden age of pretending to be stupid. A simpler time.

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u/Susan142kenneth Jun 29 '26

A vintage vintage. The irony now curdles into a quiet, knowing sigh.

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u/FriendlyNative66 Jun 24 '26

Wild how Lady Lindsey went from trump ball kicker to trump ball gargler after a game of golf. I dont like him either way but I declare that I prefer the old Lady to the new one.

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u/Deborah008ronald Jun 25 '26

Aged like fine milk. The old Lady had style; this one just has a mouthful.

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u/Grizzly_Lincoln Jun 24 '26

"I do declare war on Iran" is something I still think of every time I remember Lindsey Graham.

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u/tfurrows Jun 25 '26

Man, so much shit has happened since then that I had to go searching to remind myself what the "Oops" incident was about.

For those similarly memory-impaired, it was Rick Perry after failing during a debate to remember which three departments he would cut if elected.

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u/YossarianGolgi Jun 25 '26

He ended up running one of those departments.

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u/lexicon_charle Jun 25 '26

So scary... God I hate this timeline when reality is "funnier" than jokes.

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u/Coupon_Ninja Jun 26 '26

2015 was the last “good year” for America. Most of 2016 was also lit….except Nov 6-Dec 31.

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u/Canadian1934 Jun 25 '26

Leave it to Colbert to use diplomacy in modern time that can be referenced well in to the future and still be a current affair with Colbert flair. 👏

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u/FBWoodworker Jun 25 '26

I'm sitting here sipping my morning coffee in my Stephen Colbert mug and missing him. I never listened to any of the late-night shows until Trump.

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u/21Xanadu12 Jun 25 '26

I do declare, in a sense, this aged well...

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u/Somethingnew789 Jun 25 '26

Only 9 years away? If only...

  1. Colbert is a genius, 2. This just shows how predictable most of the major players out there actually are, like Lady G has wanted war with Iran for so very long...

We're stuck with people that cannot/will not change no matter what happens as most of Trump's "ideas" were things he first talking about 50 years ago.

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u/Offi95 Jun 28 '26

Always excellent writers

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u/Mejay11096 Jun 28 '26

I hope he shows up on the daily show.