For decades, late-night television has been a battlefield of predictable punchlines, carefully scripted banter, and jokes designed not to offend advertisers. But on a rainy Tuesday in New York, Stephen Colbert shattered the illusion of “safe comedy” with one single line that has already set the media world on fire:

A PARTNERSHIP NO ONE SAW COMING

THE DEATH OF “SAFE” LATE NIGHT

UNSCRIPTED. UNFILTERED. UNDENIABLE.

WHY THE NETWORKS ARE TERRIFIED

THE FIRST EPISODE THAT SHOOK THE ROOM

FANS DEMAND MORE

THE QUESTIONS NO ONE CAN IGNORE

THE END OF AN ERA, THE START OF A REVOLUTION