“I owe a lot to Bill O’Reilly,” Stephen Colbert confessed last night on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, “I spent over nine years playing a character based largely on him! And then twelve months in therapy to de-bloviate myself.”

With The O’Reilly Factor’s host/perpetual sexual harasser officially shit-canned from his Fox News soap box, who better to eulogize this vicious and willfully ignorant bloviator than Colbert, who turned O’Reilly’s bravado and obliviousness into a scathing and silly send-up for much of his career. To do it right, Colbert resurrected his “conservative pundit” persona. And it was perfection.

So, long Poppa Bear. And good fucking riddance.

Kristy Puchko is the managing editor of Pajiba. You can follow her on Twitter.

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