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I want to start with the biggest stories in late night this year: the impending cancellation of Colbert and Kimmel’s suspension. Do you remember what your immediate reaction to the news of both was? Why did it take so long? I had crushed them like bugs, David. I’d crushed them and thrown them into the wind, and they were still here. I call it entertainment welfare. The only reason why they were around for so long, despite the fact that their numbers were dropping, was the fact that they toed the line. I don’t think it was political. I didn’t know anybody — and I’m counting my many liberal friends — who watched them, and I think it’s because it wasn’t entertainment anymore. It was more like a therapy session for people that were upset at the world. You don’t give any credence to the notion that there were larger corporate-political considerations that went into what happened? I don’t think so. There’s never been anybody who’s ever really folded because of Trump saying, “You suck.” Was it extra noise in the story? Probably. But I honestly think that the grumbling was already there. You described their shows as being therapy sessions for people who are mad at the world. Is there not a way in which your show functions similarly? Oh, no. Our show is fun. You can be fun and mad at the same time. You can. But generally, I like to be part of the punching bag, and I encourage that among the guests. The teasing makes it fun. And also I genuinely like people that I tease. In fact, if you want to know the people I don’t like, it’s the people that I don’t tease. So you must love the women of “The View.” Yes! I love Whoopi. You must be a big fan of Rosie O’Donnell? I put the people I don’t know in a different kind of room, but I make fun of everybody that I love, and relentlessly.
