This is brutal:
"It felt more like stumbling across an old ice machine in a dark hotel hallway, still running somehow despite the fatal-sounding clatters and groans."
And: "But the show, of course, isn’t on television to compete or even entertain. It’s there to drown the egos of powerful men in a tsunami of false affirmation."
But whoever thought a man whose self-image is "I'm a billionaire" could be funny?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/stephen-colbert-late-show-replacement-byron-allen
Ellen's Very Southern Voice
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