🗞️ Colbert and the End of Late-Night TV, Ben Sass, Wall Street Journal
That, ultimately, is why the end of the Late Show matters historically. Mr. Colbert wasn’t attempting something as important as what Carson did—or his heirs David Letterman, Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. As much as they made a meaningful mark on American culture, they weren’t essential to the life of the republic. But this fading of an era is occasion to acknowledge that having some shared things does matter to a stable political culture.