Stephen Colbert has always felt support from former late night host Conan O’Brien. “Conan is the patron saint of ex-talk show hosts,” Colbert, 61, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Monday, March 9. “He’d actually been telling me to quit for years. We were out, a few Emmys ago, and he kept saying, ‘I want you to know there’s a lot of fun to be had when this is over, so don’t feel like you need to stay.’” Colbert continued, “It almost hurt my feelings, but he was just being kind. He Dutch uncle’d me.” O’Brien, for his part, was chosen to succeed David Letterman as host of...

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