Now an acclaimed director, Adam McKay used to be part of the early days of the Upright Citizens Brigade and, as such, used to pull some pretty ballsy pranks, especially for a time when the UCB 4 was just getting started.
Watch McKay go into detail with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
Here is Stephen Colbert showing a how a classic style late night desk piece is done on The Late Show with celebrated french actress Marion Cotillard. Also, more people should note how game Marion is for a comedy bit, especially given the weighty dramas she’s almost exclusively known for.
As Thanksgiving nears, Butterball has opened up their annual Butterball Turkey Talk-Line for those looking for questions on how to prepare their turkeys.
So, Stephen Colbert gave them several calls on last night’s Late Show and asked about turkeys as well as other non-related turkey questions.
Comedy past and present mixed together wonderfully when the legendary John Cleese came on to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Whether it be the interview or a bit, comedy nostalgia is undeniably going to well up when you watch Cleese’s appearance from last night.
(via Variety)
Unlike the half time show, Stephen Colbert and James Corden won’t have to pay for their airtime.
Everyone knows that the commercials for The Super Bowl, the most regularly watched TV event in human history. Similarly, the slot that follows the awarding of the Vince Lombardi is also highly coveted as its guaranteed high ratings.
Often networks use that slot to introduce new shows, but CBS, in their tenure of having the Super Bowl on their network, will opt to go with special episodes of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden on Feb. 7th.
This will be the first time that late night has brought up the rear for The Super Bowl on a major network, so don’t be surprised if Colbert and Corden pull out all the stops for it.
As you saw this morning, Colbert just went all out for the Happy Birthday song and Corden has done entire episodes from strangers houses. So, just imagine what they’ll do with this episode.
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.
Though the Christmas ads popping up before web videos might say otherwise, it is indeed Halloween.
Thus, you’re probably getting your costumes, decorations, etc. ready for tonight. Before you get too into preparations, perhaps you should take some tips from some of comedy’s best and brightest.
Conan O’Brien’s prop master Bill Tull has some budget costume tips.
Stephen Colbert has a quick how to guide on how to carve jack-o-lanterns.
Also, Dan Harmon has advice to specifically dress like Dan Harmon if that’s something you’d be into.
While you might not have the scariest Halloween, you’ll have plenty of fun doing all of the above, screwing up pumpkins and costumes for cheap.
While prepping for a week of shows in Brooklyn, Jimmy Kimmel stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and shot the breeze about their character of an agent, James Dixon.
Also, Kimmel and Colbert make it seem like there is way less of a rivalry between late night hosts than the rest of the world would like to think.
For whatever reason, when a new art form or medium gets to appear in some capacity on a late night talk show, that art form/medium gets lent a bit more credibility in the mainstream.
Certainly, Marc Maron and Chris Hardwick appearing consistently on late night has gotten podcasting more out there, but they already had a bunch of stuff going on outside of their gigantic podcasts as well.
Something like Welcome to Night Vale, which rose fast through the ranks simply as an engrossing, out-of-left-field, funny podcast making an appearance on something like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert definitely is pretty great moment for the show itself as well as podcasting as a whole.
So, knowing all that, enjoy Cecil Baldwin go through Night Vale’s Community Calendar live on Colbert.
It would seem that Stephen Colbert is going on just as much of a journey as everyone else watching The Late Show that will hopefully uncover the real, unfiltered Colbert.
His latest attempt in this Who Am Me? recurring segment has Stephen take a polygraph test to see if he would be lying now that he’s not in character.
Watch how truthy Stephen can get here.
As part of an exploratory series called Who Am Me? on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert has decided to take the comprehensive Myers Briggs Test to show America, piece by piece, the real Stephen Colbert as opposed to the conservative pundit Stephen Colbert at The Colbert Report.
Watch Colbert take the test and get his results here (spoiler alert: he’s the type that just loves doing bits as much as he can).
It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report would have no issue with really going for the jugular of a guest like Donald Trump.
In fact, at the top of Trump’s appearance on The Late Show last night, Colbert apologized, as he has to hit more of the middle of the road on a broadcast network, for everything he’s said about the Donald over the years.
Stephen still managed to keep the interview enthralling for his old and new fan bases by letting Donald say whatever he was going to say like letting him not apologize for anything.
The game of over-the-top conservative pundit Colbert and Trump sayings was another perfect example of how Stephen didn’t step on anyones toes too much.
Last night, Stephen Colbert proved that he is a more than worthy successor to David Letterman’s desk at The Late Show.
Throughout the history of late night talk shows, the first episode is often characterized by awkwardness, confusion, and a sort of frantic energy that aims to just keep the ship together as it barely has embarked on what’s supposed to be a long, long voyage.
However, Stephen Colbert was not only groomed to be a late night talk show host, but with his time at The Colbert Report, had built all the muscles necessary to be a late night talk show host, in character or not.
It should come as no surprise that, Colbert had no stilted moments in his monologue and ran a tight ship right from the opening sequence to paying tribute to Letterman to touring the new and improved Ed Sullivan Theater to the closing credits of his debut night on The Late Show. It might sound obvious to say, but one definitely got the sense after watching the inaugural episode that Stephen has been doing this late night thing for awhile.
You can see that Colbert, even sans character, can still properly stick it to Trump.
While some might clamor for the more rambunctious, satirical Colbert of The Colbert Report to do the interviews of the likes of George Clooney and especially Jeb Bush, Stephen manages inject some trademark cleverness in conversation. Hopefully, he’ll play that up more down the line.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is still very much a very traditional late night talk show with a monologue, suit, band, desk pieces, guests, etc., but Colbert showed on his very first night, how this old format can still be done well in 2015. For that, Stephen should be marked down for one of the best late night debuts of all time.
On top of that, Colbert had a thoroughly interesting inclusion of Jimmy Fallon throughout the show that almost seemed like an olive branch between the two late night hosts on different networks. We’ll be curious to see if that makes a decidedly different route for this era of late night as compared to the debacles of the last one.
Whether you watched the premiere or not (odds are that you were on of the 6.5 million that did), we urge you to watch the entire premiere episode when you make a spare hour for yourself.
If you’ve been holding your breath since the announcement of Colbert taking over for Letterman since April of last year, you only have to hold your breath for the majority of today and this evening.
As of 11:35PM tonight, the final wheel of this new era of late night will get going as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert debuts on CBS.
Not only will this be television history because of Colbert’s first episode, but we’re sure that you’re excited to see what Colbert will do with Jeb Bush on the program.
We sincerely hope you’ll be watching.
In response to a raffle to attend the Late Show with Stephen Colbert that presidential candidate Jeb Bush is using to raise money for his campaign without telling Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert is throwing his own raffle, which you can enter here, to attend said Late Show premiere that might make Jeb retroactively think about throwing that raffle.
Watch Stephen Colbert, the new host of The Late Show, make sure that his house in order here.
(via Time)
Of course, as it’s a segment from Stephen Colbert, it will be called Who Am Me?
It’s now common knowledge that Stephen Colbert played the character of a conservative pundit as host of The Colbert Report. Ever since he lead the Colbert Nation, fans and detractors alike wondered what the real Colbert was like.
Well, Stephen is planning to take on that query head on by having professionals investigate his past, talking to various people Colbert knew over the years, and seeing how that brought on the Stephen Colbert we know today. The findings will presented in a series of segments titled Who Am Me?, as mentioned above, on The Late Show.
Given how long he kept the Colbert character going, let’s see if this is all a long con when Stephen starts his tenure at The Late Show on Sept. 8th.
(via Deadline)
We are already trying to imagine how the panel interview would go with Musk and Colbert in two weeks.
The premiere of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is just over two weeks away and in addition to George Clooney, Jeb Bush, and Kendrick Lamar, you’ll know also get to look forward to Amy Schumer, Elon Musk, Scarlett Johansson, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Toby Keith, Stephen King, and Troubled Waters being guests on the show.
As you all are, we’re curious about the latitude that Colbert will employ with his wit and persona. This line-up of guests should make for a great display of how Colbert will establish that.
(via Deadline)
It’s more proof that you shouldn’t worry, if you are for some reason, about Colbert going from The Colbert Report to The Late Show.
Emily Lazar, Barry Julien, Opus Moreschi, Jay Katsir, Matt Lappin, Paul Dinello, Jim Hoskinson, and Tanya Bracco were all writers, producers, directors, etc. over at The Colbert Report and will resume similar duties at Stephen’s new gig at The Late Show at CBS.
The anticipation towards his premiere on Sept. 8th somehow is still growing even though it’s pretty damn high already.
.@JebBush will be on #LSSC Sept. 8! My first GOP candidate! Luckily I do 200 shows a year, so I think I can fit them all.
In addition to George Clooney, Stephen Colbert will very likely get to show off the full range off what his era of The Late Show can and will do by also having GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush as well as one of his favorite rap artists, Kendrick Lamar, on the premiere episode.
We’re sure you have Sept. 8th marked on one of your calendars, but you should just double mark it for what’s sure to be a pretty great inaugural episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The premiere of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is officially a month away from now. Well, add a few hours to that month’s time and you’ll find yourself exactly at the premiere at 11:35PM on Sept. 8th.
So, prepare to see this promo and this promo on TV a lot…
…as well as this promo in theaters a whole lot in the coming weeks.
George Clooney will be my first-ever #LSSC guest on September 8th! Could one of you let him know?
The selection of a first guest, as many of you know, aids in setting the tone for your run on a late night talk show. The selection of George Clooney in the first episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert might be surprising, but we’re sure that Clooney will probably be game for whatever Colbert has cooked up come the date of the premiere on Sept. 8th.
Certainly, he’ll fare better than Eminem did on the public access show Colbert guest hosted.
We only have just over a month before 11:35PM on Sept. 8th, the night when Stephen Colbert kicks off his Late Show run, which might be one of the most highly anticipated premieres this year.
These promos make it seem like that month and change…
When “lunch” turned out to be a cover for something kind of more sinister, we didn’t know how deep the rabbit hole would go in just eating with Stephen Colbert at lunch time.
Yet, it looks like, according to the final installment of Lunch with Stephen, we have all made it through the week safely along with our chips intact.
Well, we’ll all be safe until Sept. 8th when his Late Show debut premieres.
Just in case, here are parts one, two, three, and four of Lunch with Stephen.
Making it almost a week in having lunch with Stephen Colbert has been definitely more than we bargained for, or maybe, subconsciously what we bargained for.
It’s intense, outlandish, and without any breaks of any kind. Watch part 4 of Lunch with Stephen here to see what we’re talking about.
By the way, anyone think this is all an elaborate ruse for Stephen to get our chips that come with our sandwich?
As David Letterman was making his exit from the late night world earlier this year, you might have heard that they were throwing away his set at The Ed Sullivan Theater.
Chris Gethard heard about that, and in a very appropriate symbolic move, took one late night’s legend trash in the hopes to make it his very own gold at The Chris Gethard Show now on Fusion.
Watch Gethard detail the whole experience on Late Night with Seth Meyers.