Stephen Colbert Signed Off in Perfect, Absurdist Fashion

After nearly eleven years and 1,801 episodes, Stephen Colbert has left the desk of The Late Show. It wasn’t entirely his choice, of course. But in a media landscape where billion-dollar mergers, lawsuits, and political pressures suck up everything in the room, the Emmy-winning Colbert has been unjustly thrown into the void like the One Ring at Mount Doom. (Eerily fitting that the entity people are blaming for bending their knees to power is called Paramount.)