Stephen Colbert’s final bow as host of The Late Show was panned as a “letdown” by Variety with the paper noting that Colbert was never good at either the show’s skits or its interviews with celebrity guests.

Colbert was ultimately fired by CBS as ten years of consistently falling ratings and forty-million-dollar annual budget deficits cut into his viability.

Thursday’s show was the host’s final night broadcasting from New York City’s famed Ed Sullivan Theater. In the end, though, Variety was not impressed.

Writing for the paper, TV critic Daniel D’Addario lamented that even in his final big show, “Colbert couldn’t, ultimately, escape being…

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