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H. Jon Benjamin, The “Jazz Daredevil” Who Still Doesn’t Really Know How to Play Piano, Jams Out with Stephen Colbert and Jon Batiste and Stay Human

March 23, 2017
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One of the silliest things that H. Jon Benjamin has ever done in his illustrious career as a professional silly person is recording an entire jazz album with real jazz musicians without really knowing how to play jazz (or an instrument for that matter). 

The album was called “Well, I Should Have…* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” and the session players really didn’t know what was going on before they started recording.

On last night’s Colbert, Benjamin did a rare live performance from the album with Colbert’s house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human as well as Stephen Colbert himself on trumpet*. 

*Stephen also says he doesn’t know how to play the trumpet.

Enjoy some top shelf goofing around here.

Also, you can get your own very copy of “Well, I Should Have…* Jon Benjamin-Jazz Daredevil” here.

Stephen Colbert Made an Entire YouTube Channel of Over 1,200 Personalized Versions of The Happy Birthday Song with Darlene Love

November 12, 2015
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As the Happy Birthday Song is now public domain, Stephen Colbert and The Late Show have not only tasked themselves with making a special recording of the song for us all with the one and only Darlene Love, but he’s doing so for pretty much each and every one of us.

He’s made an entire channel on YouTube that one could use to wish Happy Birthday to someone with that spans over 1,200 names and counting. If you’re name isn’t there, Stephen is even taking name suggestions to make this Late Show Birthday channel as comprehensive as possible.

Though it’s not our birthday today, this is a pretty great present from The Late Show all year round.

Stephen Colbert Appoints Veteran Jazz Musician Jon Batiste as His “Official Musical Friend”

June 5, 2015
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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.

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