c1 “WHEN THE LAUGHTER DIED ON LIVE TV.” For years, he made America laugh — night after night, joke after joke. But last night… the jokes stopped. Stephen Colbert sat frozen beneath the studio lights, his eyes fixed on a single book that left him speechless: Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir. This wasn’t comedy — it was a reckoning. “This isn’t just a book,” Colbert said quietly. “It’s a warning — and we ignored it.” The audience expected punchlines. Instead, they got truth. And for the first time, late-night television became a battlefield. What Colbert does next could shatter the silence that’s protected the powerful for decades. Because when truth finally walks onto the stage… even the loudest laughter can’t drown out the truth. The question now isn’t what he’ll say — It’s who he’ll expose next.

For nearly eleven years, Stephen Colbert has opened *The Late Show* the same way: a blistering monologue, a wink to…

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