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'The Late Show' has come to an end: What should Stephen Colbert do next?

'The Late Show' has come to an end: What should Stephen Colbert do next?

After 33 years on the air, with 11 of those hosted by Stephen Colbert, CBS’s “The Late Show” has officially come to an end. It begs the question, what will Colbert do next? And, more importantly, what should he do next?

VOTE: Are you watching Stephan Colbert's final show? (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via AP)

Seems like any celebrity worth their salt these days can get a travel show. Stanley Tucci goes to Italy, Eugene Levy is disgruntled as he goes places, there’s truly something for everyone in this genre!

So let’s send Colbert somewhere. Anywhere, really. I’m not picky. I’d watch Colbert go to Argentina and The Gambia and Antarctica and even the moon, although I’m not sure what the sound quality is like up there.

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 25: Writer/Producer/Host Stephen Colbert, winner of the for Outstanding Variety Series Award for The Colbert Report, poses in the press room during the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on August 25, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Sure, “The Late Show” may be over for good. But that doesn’t mean Colbert’s run as a late-night host has to be over for good! He’s a genre in the legend and has been a staple on late-night television since 1997. So now would be a great time to bring back the thing that put him on the map: “The Colbert Report.”

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 8: (AFP OUT) U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks to television personality Stephen Colbert during a taping of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" in Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University on December 8, 2014 in Washington, DC. This is President Obama's third appearance on "The Colbert Report" that will broadcast its final show on Dec. 18. (Photo by Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images)

The Comedy Central show featured a fictional anchorman named... Stephen Colbert. Same pronunciation and everything. It satirized other political talk shows, and with the news as crazy as it is these days, satire might be our only way through it.

NEW YORK - JUNE 13: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during Mondays June 13, 2022 show. (Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)

Finally, let’s applaud a project Colbert has already announced. On March 25, filmmaker Peter Jackson announced a new “The Lord of the Rings” movie, and Colbert is co-writing the script with his son. “You know what the books mean to me, and what your films mean to me,” Colbert told Jackson in the announcement video. “But the thing I found myself reading over and over again were the six chapters early on in [‘The Fellowship of the Ring’] that y’all never developed into the first movie back in the day.”