The unwatchably awful Stephen Colbert interview that proves why he was doomed: MAUREEN CALLAHAN delivers the real story... and unmasks America's most loathsome late-night host
That's it and that's all for the late-night host Stephen Colbert, whose intolerance, intransigence and nightly screeds against Trump have surely led CBS to kill his entire show.
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