There was a time not so long ago when going on TV with Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert was pretty much the best thing I could imagine.
According to IMDb, I appeared on The Daily Show seven times, The Colbert Report three times, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — which CBS announced last week will be canceled after 33 seasons on the air between Colbert and David Letterman — once, in 2016. I didn’t realize it had been quite so often1 and I don’t remember all of those appearances. But in contrast to most of my TV hits — I’ve never found it to be a natural medium and always regarded it as something of a necessary evil — these were happy occasions, affirmations of my status as a member in good standing within a certain type of elite.
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