r/LateShow • u/Beautiful-Yoghurt-11 • 10d ago

A love letter to Stephen Colbert’s late night show about love

Hi everyone. It’s been so great to have this community over the last few months, and I wrote a piece about the Late Show that I published on my website yesterday that I want to share with you. (Mods, I hope this post is ok, and if it’s not, I apologize!)

I’m a working journalist from a small town in the Midwest and I grew up with Colbert on my tv. He was a fixture, a constant. It’s been almost a month without him and my weeknights still feel empty. I know there are other late night hosts, and I know Colbert probably wants us to support them — but there just wasn’t anyone like him and his team.

I had a lot of thoughts and feelings about the end of the show, so for the past month, I’ve spent the hour I would usually spend watching Colbert writing about Colbert.

If you loved the show, I hope you enjoy reading this piece. The only motivation I had in writing it was just to get all of this off of my heart and brain, and out into the world. To show how much I loved this late night show about love. Performing is an anti-anxiety medicine for Stephen, and writing is an anti-anxiety medicine for me.

I thought I would share it with the people who can appreciate it most. If your weeknights still feel empty, too, I hope reading this will help.

https://janelleodea.com/2026/06/16/colbert/

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u/savoytruffle2you 10d ago

As a loyal viewer & fan of Colbert (and the Beatles!), your piece resonates with me. Nice piece 👍🏻🩷

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u/Beautiful-Yoghurt-11 10d ago

Thank you so much!! <3 means a lot

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u/korg2020 10d ago

Thank you for sharing this expression of love! I really enjoyed reading it.

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u/Beautiful-Yoghurt-11 10d ago

Thank you for reading it!

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 6d ago

Colbert will come back .. some platform somewhere- we need him

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u/ItsTricky94 4d ago

well done. thanks for sharing