In a callback to the very beginning of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert kicked off the show's final week with Formidable Opponent, a segment where he debates the only worthy adversary available: himself.
And, to show how far we've come as a country in the 9 years the show has been running, the topic is the same as it was in 2005: U.S. torture of detainees.
Blue-tie Stephen Colbert (disturbed by the Senate intelligence committee's recent torture report) exposes red-tie Stephen Colbert (giving zero fucks) as an imaginary person who resides in The Idea of America, causing him to disappear and generating a very subtle metaphor for the Report's entire run.
Colbert, the character, will disappear for good Thursday night (and possibly die at the hands of Grimmy, the Grim Reaper, although that could turn out to be a fantastic fake-out.)
[h/t Digg]
