Linda Holmes

Remember these clothes?

Remember this kind of backpack?

Like, this to me is a little richer in how that kind of out-of-time quality, which of course is relevant to the fact that these are people who, you know, were born in perhaps the 1950s or whatever.

Yeah.

So it makes sense, but it's without straight up trying to emulate.

I just thought that the design was very clever and I enjoyed looking at it.

Yeah.

Later tonight, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert comes to an end amid a lot of changes in the business and in the country.

Among the sources of tension, the economics of late night in an age of clips and streaming, the approaching merger of Paramount and Warner Brothers, and President Donald Trump's constant criticism of late night hosts, which has sometimes been backed by pronouncements from the FCC.

But for Colbert's fans, the end of a friendly, funny, candid show.

I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're talking about Stephen Colbert on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining me today, of course, is Eric Deggans.

He's a critic at large at NPR and also the night chair of journalism and media ethics at Washington and Lee University.

Hello, Eric.

That is awesome.

I am excited to hear it.

I am always proud to know you, but even more now that you are fully an absent-minded professor.

And I will also say, you know, you and I have spoken about late night quite a number of times, I would say.

Yeah.

Yeah.