It's not in 2003, though. It's at some point in at least 2010, probably later, after the Breaking Bad story ends.

They're going to give Trevor Noah time, it appears. And even if he fails, it's going to simply replace him as host. It's clear they see The Daily Show as a franchise and a cornerstone of Comedy Central.

Reddit has always been toxic, but it's become especially toxic in recent months. Every single Daily Show or Nightly Show-related thread is always about "SEE? THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T HAVE A SHOW WHERE THE HOST JUST BLAMES EVERYTHING ON WHITE PEOPLE. NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE, LARRY/TREVOR." That might be the worst…

Those events sort of triggered the rise of the Jon Stewart we all know, but it really wasn't until the invasion of Iraq that the show became consistently about political and media satire and Jon's anger about them. If you re-watch a show from, say, 2002 before the Iraq War build-up, it would look a lot like 1999-era…

Larry Wilmore's ratings were down by roughly half of Colbert's even when Jon Stewart was his lead-in.

Plus, his show on TBS is what opened the door for them to take Sam Bee away from Comedy Central.

This was incredible. It probably ranks up there with some of Stewart's best rants of his later years hosting The Daily Show. I never realized how much I missed his perspective and voice until now. He needs to hurry up with HBO.

That's true, though I'm sure the RNC planners knew he'd make an anti-Trump joke or two. The Bush people were clearly blindsided by the speech Colbert gave in 2006. He went much farther than they probably ever anticipated.

I've seen some commenters comparing this to the White House Correspondents' Dinner or his testimony in front of Congress, and this doesn't approach that. It's a funny bit, but it's not at the level of ballsy-ness that those two moments had.

I'm amazed at how many people think this is real. While it's still kind of ballsy to go up on stage at the RNC and just take a proverbial dump all over it, it was obviously staged. The security guard was an actor, and there's no way he could've stayed up there for as long as he did if it was real.

To be fair, he was going to leave the Report in 2014 anyway. He said he was getting tired of the show and was going to leave at the end of his contract, which just so happened to line up with Letterman's retirement.

The writing in those segments is strong, but I just can't stand Meyers himself. His delivery is off, but I can't put my finger on why that is.

You don't have to pay for it (the most recent week of shows is free).

Yeah, I want the next Clueless Gamer to be like one of the originals, with Aaron desperately trying to get Conan to learn how to play a video game and inevitably failing and getting repeatedly punched in the process.

It's really hard to believe that a writers' room that contained Conan O'Brien, Louis CK, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel, Dino Stamatopoulos and Andy Richter was consistently bad for a couple of years. I know they were all young, but damn.

Switch Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief, and that's my list exactly.

The Trump pizza clip is glorious

Max Weinberg was great as Conan's foil in the post-Andy Late Night years. But whereas Conan and Andy have great chemistry, Conan and Max had very little (or so it seemed) and they played off of that. Colbert could turn his relationship with Batiste into something like that. There have already been a couple…

Probably the wrong word, I guess I mean segments that are driven by a viewpoint a la The Word on the old show.

I enjoy Colbert's Late Show, even if it isn't as mindbogglingly amazing as the Report was. The show has certainly started to shift in recent weeks, though, for better and worse. I love the new cold open and the shortened monologue. It makes for a much smoother intro and gets us to the desk quicker, where Colbert…