“You’re the first guy in America who lost his show because a president couldn’t take a joke.”
Bruce Springsteen set off a final Late Show firestorm when he appeared to defend Stephen Colbert ahead of the host’s last-ever episode. What was expected to be a farewell celebration quickly became one of late-night television’s most charged moments of the year. Springsteen walked onto the stage, voiced his support for Colbert, criticized powerful figures…