You’re Stephen Colbert and you have a whole day’s worth of adventuring to do in your office-you know, the one you have now taken over as a result of your new gig at The Late Show. The late night host is launching a new web series, which runs for a week beginning July 20.
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He has an office with a commanding view but prefers to eat lunch in some worker bee’s cubicle.
From there I rapidly found myself lost in a very Colbert-ian narrative that found me locked in the titular man-sized cabinet, kicking and biting at the walls. Colbert says, catching up while eating “small sounding” food, including thin mints, baby back ribs, and – product-placement alert – Little Caesars pizza.
He builds on his story from the last “Lunch With Stephen“, where he had cited his concern for his safety after finding a bag of cash on the subway.
The first episode of “Lunch with Stephen” runs just under three minutes. “Some guys came looking for it, so I panicked and used a fake name”, he tells his trusted lunch buddy.
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But instead of beating them, he’s joining them – by becoming that annoying coworker who insists on infringing on this much-coveted alone time by having lunch “with” his indented audience.
