Still, if CBS was hoping to give him the equivalent of a Super Bowl bump, the bottom line is that Sunday’s less-than-super live edition won’t do much to help the cause.
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Obama appeared on CBS’ post-Super Bowl “Late Show” to play catch with the host even though Colbert was in New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater and Obama was in Washington D.C.
CBS All Access offers up The Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert live right after the Super Bowl 50 broadcast ends at approx.
As a result, Colbert had to somewhat awkwardly interrupt his not-particularly-riveting chat with Tina Fey and Margot Robbie, there to plug the movie “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”, to conduct a satellite interview with Super Bowl MVP Von Miller.
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Colbert might have been better advised not to bother trying with football at all and just put forward a program of pure entertainment. For example, we saw some soldiers in Afghanistan, astronaut Scott Kelly at the International Space Station, and also President and Michelle Obama for a fun pre-taped piece. Here’s how to watch the two shows, which will feature celebrity guests like Tina Fey and Will Ferrell. Then there was Cilantro, an extremely rare “duck-bodied platypus” from Chinatown. And Colbert’s interview with Megyn Kelly about her perceived “feud” with Donald Trump was satisfyingly substantial. So what makes for a good lead-out show? But with that out of the question, giving a platform to a probing and odd intellect is something very special indeed.
