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In a delightful<\/span> Easter egg for fans of Stephen Colbert, local television, or the improbable combination of the two, following Colbert\u2019s last-ever Late Show<\/em>, he popped up the following day as the guest host of \u201cOnly in Monroe,\u201d a public access show in Monroe, Michigan. Colbert presented an hour of local news, assisted, sort of, by his \u201cvolunteer musical director,\u201d a deadpan Jack White hunched over a reel-to-reel tape deck with headphones clamped over his ears.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,\u201d Colbert declared. \u201cSo I am grateful to be here on Monroe Community Media before they are also acquired by Paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have any sponsors? We actually lost a lot of money making this show tonight?\u201d he also asked, peering offscreen at the crew. \u201cNow I know how CBS felt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert previously guest-hosted \u201cOnly in Monroe\u201d in 2015, and joked at the outset that he hadn\u2019t slept since then. He led the guffawing camera crew through a series of jokes about local weed dispensaries, Monroe\u2019s version of Comic Con, and a segment about a feud between two local hot dog businesses. <\/p>

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Colbert\u2019s guests on the program included \u201cOnly in Monroe\u2019s\u201d usual hosts, Michelle Baumann and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko. Jeff Daniels, who was raised in Chelsea, Michigan, also sat down for an interview, while Steve Buscemi read an ad for a local pizza place, Buscemi Pizza, while reminding viewers, \u201cI\u2019ve got nothing to do with it.\u201d <\/p>\n

At another point in the broadcast, White, a native son of Detroit, joined Colbert to sample Monroe-style hot dogs. They consumed them, as White dryly put it, \u201cLady and the Tramp-style,\u201d as the entire camera crew cracked up off-camera. Colbert also treated viewers to a helium-addled rendition of The White Stripes\u2019 \u201cFell in Love With a Girl\u201d as White struggled not to laugh. At the close of the program, Colbert gifted the show\u2019s creative director Genevieve Benson a ham topped with a birthday hat and a lit sparkler.<\/p>\n

The whole thing was hilarious, awkward, and gloriously pointless. While the president of the United States seethes over Colbert, the man himself made it clear that he intends to use his sudden wealth of freedom to enjoy himself.<\/p>

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