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Stephen Colbert’s ‘The Late Show’ Finale
James Poniewozik, writing for The New York Times (gift link):
He didn’t land the pope, but he got a Beatle. He didn’t have a new
project to announce, but he left us with a song (in fact two). He
didn’t choose to end his show, but he ended it his own weird,
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