The Late Show with Stephen Colbert got off to a roaring start in the ratings with 6.55 million viewers on Tuesday night (September 8). So, we’ve broken down every moment you missed (what were you doing?)! “Everyone has borrowed from Dave, which is a comedy term for stealing”, said Colbert.
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Colbert’s guests on his second episode were Elon Musk and Scarlett Johansson.
Lower late-night viewers sampling of Stephen Colbert’s CBS show was the result of the show’s second night, with NBC’s “Tonight Show” resuming its top ranking.
Trump’s anti-Oreo stance has puts other Republican candidates in a tough spot, “forced to chose between alienating Latino voters and eating a Hydrox”, Colbert says, gagging.
George Clooney was show’s first guest who appeared not to plug any work, but said, “I am just here to see you and I think that’s why everybody else is here”. And late-night TV actually misses that. Colbert maybe even seemed a little uncharacteristically nervous – again, understandable, given the stakes of his new gig.
The company began advertising on CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and NBC’s “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this week with a campaign created to brand GE as a “digital industrial” company.
James Poniewozik at the New York Times called the first show “overstuffed and messy”.
If it sounds like mythmaking of the funniest order, watch Colbert tell the story. Of course, Trump hasn’t always been known to play nice; he’s responded aggressively to political commentators on more than one occasion (just ask Megyn Kelly).
On “The Colbert Report“, that would’ve gone more like this.
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With reports that the inaugural taping ran close to two hours, Colbert explained that editors had to work quickly to edit down the one-hour show in time to air at 11:35 p.m.
