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Podcast: Awards Chatter
Episode: Stephen Colbert - 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' & 'Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who's Going to Clean Up This Shit?'
Description: Late night's comeback kid — as in, its ratings leader and an Emmy frontrunner just a year after some began writing him off — discusses the tragedy that led him to comedy, the evolution of "Stephen Colbert" on Comedy Central and why his fortunes, as David Letterman's successor, turned around after Trump's election.
Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg; recorded by Ryan Gabos; produced by Matthew Whitehurst.
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