Name: "The Mighty Colbert" - John Lithgow Reads A Special Poem He Wrote For Stephen
Uploaded: 2026-03-10T17:19:04.000Z
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Okay, folks, we've captured John Lithgow.

It's not just Broadway stages that you've graced.

You have also danced recently with the New York City Ballet.

The elephant as portrayed by dane midnight.

I met Mikhail Baryshnikov for the first time and recently, no, years ago, he had seen Carnival of the Animals without my knowing it.

And the first words out of his mouth were, you are a wonderful dancer.

Now, I must add that I was dancing to comic effect, and I made them laugh.

In other words, you know, I was dancing as well as an elephant can possibly dance.

That was the number of times I was on with Letterman.

This is a really, really sentimental moment, Stephen.

I mean, I share this feeling with everybody in this audience.

I just have loved talking to you and getting to know you over the years.

And my producer tells me, and I've not heard this.

My producer tells me that you have brought a special poem for us.

I want him to hear it on TV in front of everybody, to see.

The time has arrived for us all to prepare for the doleful departure of Stephen Colbert.

How will we last in the gaping black hole that's left in the absence of this merry soul?

For a decade of late night and nine years before, of satirical japes on the Colbert Report, we've been lavished with laughter for 20 straight years from the genius between Steven's two mismatched ears.

What mysterious magic imbues late night's air?

Stephen's wit is the source of his lunatic art.

His intelligence, wisdom, compassion and heart.

These are the virtues that bring out the best in even his gravest, most humorless guest.

His monologues though, with their slap happy quirks, have clearly been Steven's sublime masterworks.

Each one is a targeted rotten tomato, bookended by music from Batiste and Cato.

Why yank off the air this beloved national treasure?

Stephen's tale is a lesson for all who come after.

Beware of a boss with thin skin and no laughter.

With a talent so rich and discernment so rare, there's much more to come from the mighty Colbert.

Previews for Giant on Broadway start Wednesday.

We'll be right back with national security analyst Paul Rykoff.

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