I’ll try, just for kicks.
“Then again, in these final days of a three-year stewardship of the Stateside Bench which has brought epochal rounds of triumph and turbulence alike, as The Tim prepares to depart the Mothership’s hot seat and return to his cherished spot at the back of the Floor – in Dolan-logic, a place close by both the coffee and the can – His Eminence’s remarkably simpatico tag-team with the Charleston-bred improv guy who, for the first time, swept this year’s Emmys for late-night comedy has made for an especially fitting high note on which to go out… and, arguably, a note that only the last student of John Tracy Ellis ever could’ve hit.”
Caridnal Dolan was president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) from 2010 - 2013 and they were eventful years. He’s glad to be returning to his post as archbishop of New York and the back and forth with Colbert on Colbert’s show and at the dinner is a nice finale. John Tracy Ellis was a Catholic Church historian who taught Dolan at the Catholic University of America.
Ok, I had to look up that last part. 