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Colbert’s Sudden Return to Late Night? It Happened on Public Access.

A day after the comedian hosted the final episode of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS, he hosted “Only in Monroe,” a community-access program in Monroe, Mich.

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  1. A CBS finale turns into a public-access encore.
  2. Stephen Colbert appears on Monroe Community Media's Only in Monroe one day after The Late Show ends.
  3. The open question: whether late-night power can move from a network stage to smaller screens.

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