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Steve Carell Joins Colbert in a Tearful ‘Daily Show’ Reunion

The former “Daily Show” correspondent returned to argue about the merits of aging, before revealing that he really just misses his good friend Colbert.

Years before The Office, Steve Carell was a correspondent on The Daily Show, and one of his most popular recurring bits was “Even Stepvhen.” The segment was a debate between Carell and then-correspondent Stephen Colbert, intended to mock the arguing between pundits on cable news that often failed to educate anyone on the issue at hand. On Monday, 25 years after that first “Even Stevphen” sketch, Carell returned to The Late Show to reprise his role, storming on stage to counter Colbert’s proclamation that aging is a good thing: “Steven, we are born astride a grave, and each day, the cruel grasp of time pulls us closer to oblivion. “Good one,” Carell quipped, after Colbert made fun of his ongoing role in the Minions franchise, “I didn’t know you were allowed to tell jokes on this show.

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