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“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert had some sharp words for Bill O’Reilly, the longtime Fox News host who was dumped by the network on Wednesday amid allegations of sexual harassment.  

“I owe a lot to Bill O’Reilly,” Colbert said Wednesday night. “I spent over nine years playing a character based largely on him ― and then 12 months in therapy to de-bloviate myself.”  

Colbert cited the Fox News statement, which said that “by ratings standards,” O’Reilly was “one of the most accomplished TV personalities in the history of cable news.”

The audience booed, but Colbert cut them off. 

“No, no, no. By ratings standards, he is,” Colbert said. “By moral standards, he was a self-righteous landfill of angry garbage.”

Then Colbert brought back the “other” Stephen Colbert, the one based on O’Reilly, to give “Papa Bear” a fond farewell:

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Fox News probably won’t be giving Bill O’Reilly a proper farewell, considering the damning sexual harassment allegations that have led to his dismissal on Wednesday.  

So the “Daily Show” decided to do it for them.

“You may not know this but Bill O’Reilly was the biggest figure in the history of cable news,” Trevor Noah said during Wednesday night’s episode. “At one point, no one even came close, because they were afraid that he might sexually harass them.”

To honor the scorned political commentator, Noah went over O’Reilly’s greatest hits, which included 20 years of O’Reilly’s rants about the “war on Christmas” and the “war on white Christian men,” and, of course, the TV host’s belligerent racism that was often directed at black men.

“Looking back on O’Reilly’s greatest hits, the one thing that’s hard to believe was that it took this long for him to lose his job,” Noah said. “He was so racist, it somehow became funny.”

And no O’Reilly tribute would be complete without his famous “Inside Edition” meltdown, which Noah reenacted surprisingly well.

In the clip above, relive O’Reilly’s decades-long career with the “Daily Show” and bid your final farewells to “The O’Reilly Factor.”

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Officials at the University of California, Berkeley, have postponed Ann Coulter’s scheduled lecture on immigration at its campus over safety concerns and fear that the event could spark violent protests.

Dan Mogulof, a university spokesman, told The Huffington Post that police learned that groups responsible for the recent violent demonstrations on campus and in the city of Berkeley planned to target Coulter’s event, initially scheduled for April 27.

After news of the event’s cancellation spread, Coulter maintained that she would make an appearance at Berkeley next week to deliver her speech.

The announcement came less than a week after fighting broke out between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump during a “Patriots Day” free speech rally at a park in the city of Berkeley. Violence also broke out at UC Berkeley in February when conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear on campus.

In a letter sent Tuesday night, university officials told the Berkeley College Republicans, one of the student organizations responsible for the event, that they were rescheduling Coulter’s appearance after consulting with campus police over safety. 

The letter said, in part:

“UCPD’s concerns and recommendations were significantly influenced by escalating violence during demonstration-related events on the campus and surrounding areas of the city,” Mogulof told HuffPost.

On Wednesday, Coulter claimed that UC Berkeley officials sent her a list of demands that had to be met before her appearance.

“I’ve acceded to all their silly demands, which they thought would end it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “When I said, ‘yes, yes, yes,’ they canceled anyway. No more clear-cut proof that taxpayer-supported universities will not allow conservative speakers.”

A blog post by Young America’s Foundation, which was co-sponsoring Coulter’s event, said that the university demanded she speak in the afternoon at a site to be announced shortly before the event and to admit only students.

Asked about the reported demands, Berkeley spokesman Mogulof said, “We actually have no idea what she’s talking about because we’ve never actually been in direct contact with her.”

Mogulof said that they’ve only communicated with Coulter through the student organizations that were sponsoring her. The only requests the university has made were safety-related, he added.

“Why she sees those as demands we’re uncertain, because they were simply the recommendations we received from our police department about what would be required to protect her and, most importantly, to maximize the chances that the event could be held successfully and safely,” Mogulof explained. 

“In other words, we can’t hold an event when our police department says, ‘No, sorry. We can’t provide safety and security.’”

It is unclear where in Berkeley Coulter might be speaking next week, but the conservative pundit tweeted Wednesday that she has instructed a “Berkeley student group” to rent out a venue. 

The Berkeley College Republicans did not immediately return HuffPost’s request for comment.

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