Former CBS talk show host Stephen Colbert winkingly confessed during his show’s final episode that its oft-touted status as “#1 in late-night” comes with a massive asterisk.
The series finale of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired Thursday night, and in a pre-recorded skit, Colbert symbolized the end of his network TV tenure by facing down a green CGI wormhole backstage. To explain the metaphor, pop-science author Neil DeGrasse Tyson appears and says his cancellation has torn apart “the fabric of the universe.”
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The joke continues:
DeGrasse Tyson: Two contradictory realities cannot coexist without rupturing the space-time continuum.
Colbert: Like what?
Tyson: For instance, if the show is #1 on late night and it also gets canceled.
Colbert: They canceled Gutfeld?!
To concede this fact suggests it really did stick in Colbert’s craw. After the announcement of his cancellation — and the ignominious end of a decades-long cultural institution —
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