The host was inspired to go on this quest by the recent news that great Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani’s “Reclining Nude”had sold for a record-breaking $170 million”.
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The Late Show took a somber tone at the end of Friday’s episode as Stephen Colbert got emotional while speaking about the deadly Paris attacks. The show was filmed in the early evening, which meant the news was just breaking in the middle of the filming. In a show full of light-hearted silliness (he had a giant furry hat face-off with Monty Python’s John Cleese), Colbert ended things on a very somber note.
The network said Wednesday that a special edition of Colbert’s “Late Show” will air directly after the February 7 game, the first time that distinction has gone to a late-night show. “As you can see, I have to blur both Hootie and the Blowfish”, cracks the “Late Show” host.
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He is allowed to show the Birth of Venus, Georgia O’Keefe paintings and Michaelangelo’s famous David sculpture – but only a distant picture for “a total of two seconds”. Finally, Colbert draws a cartoon image of breasts, which is immediately blurred, but as soon as he adds a nose and smile underneath to make them look like eyes, the same exact drawing is suddenly fine to broadcast.
