Stephen Colbert Reveals Surprising Upside of CBS Axing
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Stephen Colbert Reveals Surprising Upside of CBS Axing
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Stephen Colbert thinks it’s possible CBS could have “saved his life” by firing him.
Without CBS unceremoniously ousting him from The Late Show, Colbert said he’s not sure when he would’ve departed on his own. “You can’t do this forever. You have to think about it, ‘Well, when is the right time to end your tenure?’ I didn’t think this soon,” Colbert, 62, told People on Tuesday.
“Who knows? Maybe CBS saved my life,” he said, “because it takes a lot of bone marrow to do the show every day.”
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/stephen-colbert-reveals-surprising-upside-of-cbs-axing/).
There’s a reason Jon Stewart left The Daily Show. And why, when he agreed to come back, it was only doing one show a week.
Burnout is real.