Without a doubt, the Colbert Nation was relieved and excited to have their favorite faux-Stephen Colbert back on the air, even if it was in the form of The ColberT ReporT (hard T's means it's a different sort of show without the writers, folks). The in-studio audience made their feelings evident through an obnoxiously long ovation that ended up running the first airing past midnight and into 12:05AM. TiVos around the nation were heard weeping at that moment. All subsequent airings cut out a huge chunk of the ovation and replaced it with big, bold, white text saying, "TWO MINUTES LATER".

So, for those of you who missed it, the audience wouldn't shut up, Colbert tried to politely quiet them down, that didn't work, Colbert actually walked into the audience and forcibly pushed a few people back into their seats. Scarily enough, that only sort of, kind of worked. The man could have ran in there, slit the throats of everyone in the first row, and the audience would have continued cheering like he was firing t-shirts into the crowd. Either people were desperate to have Colbert back, or the Colbert Nation has continued rapidly slipping into cult country.

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