Stephen Colbert
speaker
1,440 appearances
49 recordings
16 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Stephen Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why blow it now?
And toward the end of the show, I started to think that my love of that game was diminishing to the point that I might actually blow the entire – I might actually drop the entire China set one day because I just couldn't take playing that character anymore.
Yeah, I guess so.
I began to feel like I was stumbling downhill with an armful of bottles and that I couldn't actually keep up the discipline because it took discipline to remind myself every day to be the character.
Don't be yourself.
And I began to wonder, well, what would it be like to be me?
And so I decided a couple of years before the show ended that I was going to end the show.
And it was not because I didn't like it anymore.
I still liked it, but I just thought, like, I'm not sure if I can actually keep this up without hurting someone.
Yeah.
I don't know.
It's a feeling.
I thought maybe I would make some big mistake with the character because he says he would say terrible things.
And I got away with some of the terrible things he would say or do because it was all filtered through his mask.
But if I didn't maintain the mask, it would just be me being terrible.
And and that's and he would say hateful things or hurtful things.
And I thought, well, if I if I don't play this tightly, if I don't if I don't if I don't if I don't hit the bell just right all the time, not that it was a perfect performance.
What I mean is if I didn't maintain this discipline and I felt my discipline slipping, if I didn't maintain that discipline, that I would simply slide into being like the thing that I was mocking.
It fell out of the sky.
It was absolutely no part of my plans when I decided to end the Colbert Report.
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