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S&C Coach at the Dutch Olympic Team - Team NL @teamNLtweets. Content Creator at @scienceforsport. I'm busier on Instagram! ⬇️
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Origin Story: The Daily Show’s Toss to The Colbert Report

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By Matt Solomon
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Screenshot: Comedy Central In Origin Story, LateNighter digs into the people, ideas, and happy accidents behind some of late night’s most memorable bits. When Stephen Colbert left The Daily Show in 2005 to launch The Colbert Report, he already had a cult following as a clueless, over-eager correspondent and the strongest lead-in Comedy Central could offer: Jon Stewart. What he did not have was any guarantee viewers would stick around.
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Thursday August 13 2026

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By Jed Rosenzweig Verified, Matt Solomon
| LateNighter Verified
Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC Dave Franco, Jaylen Brown, Maiya Sykes, guest host Anthony Anderson The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon NBC Adam Scott, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ella Rubin, Dogstar Comics Unleashed CBS Hannah Dickinson, Mark Smalls, Lance Woods, Joe Sib (R 5/22/26) Late Night with Seth Meyers NBC Adam Scott, Juliette Lewis (R 4/30/26) Watch What Happens Live Bravo D'Arcy Carden, Emily Simpson Gutfeld! Fox News Kat Timpf, Dave Landau, Andrew Gruel, Liz MacDonald
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The Night David Letterman Threw a Pencil and Found a Running Gag

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By Matt Solomon
| LateNighter Verified
Letterman with a pencil, many years later. (Photo: CBS) In Origin Story, LateNighter digs into the people, ideas, and happy accidents behind some of late night’s most memorable bits. Three months into Late Night with David Letterman, a Viewer Mail question arrived from Kirk Hancock, who wrote on behalf of “the guys in my dorm.” “Is there real glass in the window that overlooks the city behind your desk?” Hancock asked on the May 7, 1982 episode.
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