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Colbert, Joe Biden, and Uber: Politics, Religion, Grief, and the Protest We Didn't See

On last night’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert conducted an interview with Vice President Joe Biden that immediately distinguished him from his late-night network peers, allowing for serious emotion and soul-searching to emerge from amidst the joking and jaunty music of these kinds of shows.  Early on in the interview, Colbert expressed his condolences to Biden for the recent death of his son Beau at age 46 from brain cancer.