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Can late-night talk shows survive a vindictive Trump administration?
Key takeaways
- Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump cracks jokes with Stephen Colbert on the set of The Late Show in 2015.
- On Thursday, US time, Stephen Colbert will step onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York for the final time, bringing an end to CBS's Late Show franchise, first helmed by David Letterman.
- He says his final sign-off is going to be "something simple".
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Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump cracks jokes with Stephen Colbert on the set of The Late Show in 2015. (Getty Images: CBS/John Paul Filo)
Link copied Share Share article Like other checks and balances on presidential power, late-night talk shows — once ratings juggernauts, woven into the fabric of American culture — are being stress-tested.
On Thursday, US time, Stephen Colbert will step onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York for the final time, bringing an end to CBS's Late Show franchise, first helmed by David Letterman.
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