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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in-series confirmation that ''Colbert Report'' Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.

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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in-series confirmation that ''Colbert Report'' Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.''Series/TheLateShow''.
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* Whenever StephenColbert talks to his CompanionCube handgun, Sweetness, he holds it up to his deaf ear. I thought this was just weird until someone pointed out that this is to emphasise that the gun isn't really talking to him - the voice is in his head. All the impulses to kill the studio audience are ''his''. --{{Tropers/Rissa}}

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* Whenever StephenColbert Creator/StephenColbert talks to his CompanionCube handgun, Sweetness, he holds it up to his deaf ear. I thought this was just weird until someone pointed out that this is to emphasise that the gun isn't really talking to him - the voice is in his head. All the impulses to kill the studio audience are ''his''. --{{Tropers/Rissa}}
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* "We'll Meet Again" is best known from ''Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb''. One of the real Stephen Colbert's earliest lessons in improv (and life), at Second City right before his first professional show, was "you gotta learn to love the bomb" - the 'bomb' in this case being failure. "You gotta learn to love when you're failing," [[https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story Colbert would later say]]. " You gotta learn to love when you’re failing.… The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.” "We'll Meet Again" wasn't just a promise to his fans, it was a silent tribute to where 'learning to love the bomb' had brought him in his career.

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* "We'll Meet Again" is best known from ''Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb''. One of the real Stephen Colbert's earliest lessons in improv (and life), at Second City right before his first professional show, was "you gotta learn to love the bomb" - the 'bomb' in this case being failure. "You gotta learn to love when you're failing," [[https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story Colbert would later say]]. " You gotta learn to love when you’re failing.… The "The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.” "We'll Meet Again" wasn't just a promise to his fans, it was a silent tribute to where 'learning to love the bomb' had brought him in his career.
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* "We'll Meet Again" is best known from ''Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb''. One of the real Stephen Colbert's earliest lessons in improv (and life), at Second City right before his first professional show, was "you gotta learn to love the bomb" - the 'bomb' in this case being failure. "You gotta learn to love when you're failing," [[https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story Colbert would later say]]. " You gotta learn to love when you’re failing.… The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer.” "We'll Meet Again" wasn't just a promise to his fans, it was a silent tribute to where 'learning to love the bomb' had brought him in his career.
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* The recurring 434-part series "Better Know A District" is innovative because it gives U.S. representatives 15 minutes of fame that would otherwise never receive it.
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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in-series confirmation that ColbertReport Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.

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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in-series confirmation that ColbertReport ''Colbert Report'' Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.
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* In the August 1, 2011 episode, Stephen compares UsefulNotes/BarackObama to the [[DungeonsAndDragons Troll]] from ''The Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' [[HealingFactor What is the most famous trait of DnD trolls?]]

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* In the August 1, 2011 episode, Stephen compares UsefulNotes/BarackObama to the [[DungeonsAndDragons [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Troll]] from ''The Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' [[HealingFactor What is the most famous trait of DnD trolls?]]
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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in series confirmation that ColbertReport Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.

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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in series in-series confirmation that ColbertReport Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.
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* In the finale the entire 9-year run was [[AllJustaDream revealed]] to be a DailyShow segment. This is in series confirmation that ColbertReport Colbert was just a character played by the "normal" DailyShow Colbert and helps bring his fans along in the transition to his new role hosting the LateShow.
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** {{Jossed}} in the finale. [[spoiler:Stephen kills death during the Cheating Death segment, becoming immortal in the process.]]
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* The choice of "Holland, 1945" as the final credits song is a [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/12/19/the_colbert_report_finale_song_holland_1945_did_colbert_pay_tribute_to_his.html fridge-ey]] TearJerker.
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** In the August 1, 2011 episode, Stephen compares UsefulNotes/BarackObama to the [[DungeonsAndDragons Troll]] from ''The Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' [[HealingFactor What is the most famous trait of DnD trolls?]]
** The recurring 434-part series "Better Know A District" is innovative because it gives U.S. representatives 15 minutes of fame that would otherwise never receive it.

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** * In the August 1, 2011 episode, Stephen compares UsefulNotes/BarackObama to the [[DungeonsAndDragons Troll]] from ''The Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' [[HealingFactor What is the most famous trait of DnD trolls?]]
** * The recurring 434-part series "Better Know A District" is innovative because it gives U.S. representatives 15 minutes of fame that would otherwise never receive it.

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\n[[AC:FridgeHorror]]** In the August 1, 2011 episode, Stephen compares UsefulNotes/BarackObama to the [[DungeonsAndDragons Troll]] from ''The Three Billy Goats Gruff.'' [[HealingFactor What is the most famous trait of DnD trolls?]]
** The recurring 434-part series "Better Know A District" is innovative because it gives U.S. representatives 15 minutes of fame that would otherwise never receive it.

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->Or maybe he's pointing at the initial C above the fireplace and making rabbit ears, indicating CBS and broadcast TV, respectively.

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->Or ** Or maybe he's pointing at the initial C above the fireplace and making rabbit ears, indicating CBS and broadcast TV, respectively.
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* 10/30/14, Stephen asks the Grim Reaper where he's going after his final Report. Grimmy points at the fire and makes devil horns. Yeahhh...
Or maybe he's pointing at the initial C above the fireplace and making rabbit ears, indicating CBS and broadcast TV, respectively.
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* As mentioned on the BearsAreBadNews page: Colbert mocks the typical conservative talk-show host mentality with his routine. The talk-show movement stems in large part fromt he success of Bill O'Reilly, who Colbert has nicknamed "papa bear". Colbert has also declared Bears the greatest threat to America. That means ''Bill O'Reilly is the greatest threat of the greatest threats to America''. -TSBasilisk

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* As mentioned on the BearsAreBadNews page: Colbert mocks the typical conservative talk-show host mentality with his routine. The talk-show movement stems in large part fromt he success of Bill O'Reilly, who Colbert has nicknamed "papa bear". Colbert has also declared Bears the greatest threat to America. That means ''Bill O'Reilly is the greatest threat of the greatest threats to America''. -TSBasilisk-TSBasilisk

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* Taken out of context, "Ukraine is on the brink of disaster. So, things are improving" implies that the situation in Ukraine used to be, well, disastrous. Then again, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster that's technically true]].
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* As mentioned on the BearsAreBadNews page: Colbert mocks the typical conservative talk-show host mentality with his routine. The talk-show movement stems in large part fromt he success of Bill O'Reilly, who Colbert has nicknamed "papa bear". Colbert has also declared Bears the greatest threat to America. That means ''Bill O'Reilly is the greatest threat of the greatest threats to America''. -TSBasilisk

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