Stephen Colbert

“I just want to know that it’s OK to say on the air,” Colbert jokes in a newly-released rehearsal clip from last Thursday’s show. “I’ve had a rough week,” he added.

Colbert’s ousting is “a warning shot,” Lizz Winstead writes today in Rolling Stone. “It tells comedians—even the white, male, successful ones—that there’s a line. And if you cross it, they’ll find an excuse to take you out.”

It’s the graphics department. It’s always the graphics department.