Colbert opened his second episode by explaining that multiple factors almost stopped the premiere from making it to the air.
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Warren joins an elite lineup of politicians to appear on the former Colbert Report host’s new show.
The Late Show with Stephen ColbertStephen Colbert’s first “Late Show” episode nearly didn’t make it to air thanks to a technical glitch. And Wednesday’s Late Show showing is still more than double what Letterman brought in on the comparable night previous year .
One of the most memorable moments from Colbert’s almost non-existent debut was also one of the most viewed online: Colbert’s discussion about Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy while eating Oreos. If you don’t count predecessor David Letterman’s final week before he said goodbye in May, those numbers were the biggest audience the show has received since July 1995.
Colbert asked the actor and director about being “arm candy” to his civil rights lawyer wife Amal, and presented Clooney with a perfectly impersonal wedding gift, a Tiffany paperweight engraved with the message “I don’t know you.” “And we had to cut some stuff we loved”, Colbert told his audience. We’re totally in.
Colbert talked about the new “Late Show” in an interview before the show’s debut this week. “Let’s say it’s some sort of action thriller”.
New York Time’s reports President Obama’s emails were hacked by Russians. “I used to play a narcissistic conservative pundit, now I’m just a narcissist”.
Last night, following a largely watched NFL Kickoff Game that aired on NBC as part of its “Sunday Night Football” package, Fallon’s “Tonight Show” topped his CBS and ABC competition combined in the key 18-49 demographic.
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His ability to point out the absurdity that surrounds politics is so razor-sharp, it’s as if he never took a nine month break off the air.
