“He’s a classy guy. He’s a classy guy,” Karlin said of Colbert on The Daily Beast’s Obsessed podcast. “I think he’s capable of killing with kindness. I think what he doesn’t say is sometimes better than what can be said. But he is just a ...

Jon Stewart helped crush CNN’s “Crossfire” in 2004, telling the hosts that their angry rhetoric was “hurting America.” Two decades later, Stewart’s protégé, Stephen Colbert, did just that with a combination of “fake news,