Intro for May 22, 2026

Dear Gossips, After months of a long, slow march to the finale, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended last night, closing an eleven year, 1,801-episode run that began in 2015. This marks not only the end of Stephen Colbert's tenure behind the desk at The Late Show, but also the end of CBS airing its own late-night talk show, which they have done since David Letterman hosted the first Late Show in 1993. Whatever one may think of Colbert, it is truly the end of an era, the ending of the Late Show, and maybe also the beginning of the end for all late-night television as we have known it . . .