After announcing his bandleader last week, Stephen Colbert has to come up with an iconic theme to kick off his era of The Late Show.
He put a lot of hours of hard work in and apparently didn’t have his bandleader involved and came up with this.
Let’s hope Colbert keeps making videos every week until September.
Based off what we’ve read, it looks like Stephen Colbert is going to make jazz as popular as it has ever been since Whiplash.
Piece by piece, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is coming together as Colbert has announced veteran jazz virtuoso Jon Batiste as his bandleader or rather, his “official musical friend”.
So, rather than going the route of having the likes of Fred Armisen or Reggie Watts as a bandleader with comedy and music being both their fortes, Colbert is going for a dyed in the wool musician/straight man to play off of.
It’s just another yet thing that makes September seem further and further away.
(via Entertainment Weekly)
While there are still a few missing pieces in the thorough shifting of players around the late night world, there is now one less to try to figure out.
Reggie Watts upcoming departure as bandleader at Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC for being the bandleader on The Late Late Show with James Corden really made us rack our brains as to who would fill Reggie’s shoes, sweaters, and hair. However, we no longer need to wonder since recording artist Kid Cudi has been announced as Reggie’s replacement starting July 10th.
If you’re curious what that might be like, here’s Kid Cudi making music with Reggie.