Article in Poynter by Tom JJones, 5/26/26
Headline: “Opinion | Stephen Colbert said he’d return to public access TV. Then he actually did it.”
Subhead: “One day after ending his 11-year run on CBS, Colbert resurfaced on a quirky Michigan community access show with Jack White, Jeff Daniels and Eminem”
“Stephen Colbert is already back on TV.
Well, for a moment he was. Just a day after he wrapped up his 11-year run as host of CBS’s “The Late Show,” Colbert made a guest appearance on “Only in Monroe,” a community access show broadcast in southeast Michigan. . .”
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Article in Mother Jones by Anna Merlan, 5/23/26
Headline: “Stephen Colbert Escaped Late Night and Immediately Started Having Fun”
Subhead: “A gloriously deadpan and silly public access appearance after an ‘excruciating’ 23 hours off-air.”
“In a delightful Easter egg for fans of Stephen Colbert, local television, or the improbable combination of the two, following Colbert’s last-ever Late Show, he popped up the following day as the guest host of ‘Only in Monroe,‘ a public access show in Monroe, Michigan. Colbert presented an hour of local news, assisted, sort of, by his ‘volunteer musical director,’ a deadpan Jack White hunched over a reel-to-reel tape deck with headphones clamped over his ears.
“ ‘It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,’ Colbert declared. ‘So I am grateful to be here on Monroe Community Media before they are also acquired by Paramount.’. . .”
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