took the show’s excellence for granted, agreeing that some day we’d
look back on the double whammy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
as the golden age of TV’s singeing singing satire.

That age ends now. Colbert is gone from TV until September, when he

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Without Stewart, of course, The Colbert Report would not have existed.
Both shows skewer politicians, pop culture and that inexhaustible
source of satire, the Fox News Channel. (It’s amazing that, with the
same butts for their humor, the two shows rarely cracked the same
jokes.) But the on-air Stewart was himself, not “Jon Stewart.” Colbert,