The Colbert Report Is Dead. Long Live Stephen Colbert

His act will never be the same, but it was never the same to begin with

In his second night as host of The Colbert Report, Oct. 18, 2005, Stephen Colbert made a joke that wasn't really a joke. Over the course of the show's run, he promised, viewers would be treated to installments in "a 435-part series" called Better Know a District.

He didn't make it to 435, but he almost broke triple digits. During its just-under-a-decade on the air, the show visited a full 94 Congressional districts in the U.S.

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