Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert Addresses Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s Capitol Arrest
Stephen Colbert addressed the arrests of members of his production crew at the US Capitol late last week during the opening monologue of Monday’s episode of the Late Show. Seven members of the production crew were charged with unlawful entry after taping a sketch involving Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Among those arrested was Triumph creator and voice actor Robert Smigel. “Triumph offered to go down to D.C. to interview some Congress people to highlight some January 6 hearings,” Colbert said of the sketch. “I said, ‘Sure, if you can get anyone to agree to talk to you. Because, and please don’t take this as an insult, you’re a puppet.” Advertisement Related Video “After they finished their interviews, they were doing some last-minute puppetry and jokey make-em-ups in a hallway, when Triump...
Colbert Production Crew Arrested At US Capitol After Taping Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Skit
Members of a production crew working for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert were arrested on Thursday night at a US Capitol office building after taping a sketch involving Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Nine individuals — including Triumph creator Robert Smigel — were charged with unlawful entry. According to CBS (via The Hollywood Reporter), the production crew was on-site at the Capitol on June 15th and 16th recording authorized and pre-arranged interviews with members of Congress. “After leaving the members’ offices on their last interview of the day, the production team stayed to film stand-ups and other final comedy elements in the halls when they were detained by Capitol Police,” CBS said in a statement. In their own statement, the US Capitol Police said that at the time of the arrest...
Stephen Colbert Pauses Late Show After Experiencing COVID Symptoms
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert paused production this week after its namesake began experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19. A statement posted to the program’s Twitter account on May 9th reads: “Stephen is experiencing symptoms consistent with a recurrence of COVID. Out of an abundance of caution for his staff, guests, and audience, he will be isolating for a few additional days. The Late Show will not be taping new episodes until further notice.” Colbert previously contracted the virus in April, but said he felt fine thanks to being triple vaccinated. At the time, the show had already planned to air reruns from April 22nd through May 1st, so only its April 21st taping was canceled. Following news of the show’s cancellation today, the comedian joked on Twitter, “WORST. SEQ...
Lana Del Rey Performs “Arcadia” on Stephen Colbert: Watch
Lana Del Rey celebrated the release day of her new album, Blue Banisters, by paying a visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. As the evening’s musical guest, the pop crooner gave a performance of the album’s lead single, “Arcadia.” “Arcadia” already calls to mind Del Rey’s earlier career highlights like “Video Games,” but her outfit and the black-and-white filter of her remote performance especially felt like a throwback to 2012. With a stripped-down piano background and minimal stage decor, Del Rey’s voice took the forefront, making the simple track feel all the more poignant. Watch her performance below. Now that Blue Banisters has finally arrived, it seems Del Rey might be taking some time away from the public eye: After some questionable missteps over the past year or so...
Charlamagne Tha God To Host Late Night Talk Show On Comedy Central
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nick Fancher / Comedy Central Charlamagne Tha God is returning to your late-night television screen. The media personality and host of The Breakfast Club is getting late night talk show on Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey is set to premiere on September 17 at 10PM ET on Comedy Central. The series is being executive produced by Stephen Colbert, who besides hosting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, happens to share South Carolina roots with Charlamagne. Colbert also came to fame on Comedy Central hosting The Colbert Report from 2005 to 2014. Source: Scott Kowalchyk for CBS / Comedy Central The weekly late-night series is being billed as a “culturally fluent take on social issues” as Charlamagne offer his tak...
Margo Price Announces New EP Live From the Other Side, Performs “Hey Child” on Colbert: Watch
Margo Price has announced Live From the Other Side, a new audiovisual EP due out July 16th via Loma Vista Recordings. To preview the project, the country singer filmed a Late Show with Stephen Colbert performance featuring a new version of “Hey Child” with Adia Victoria, Allison Russell, Kam Franklin, and Kyshona Armstrong. Live From the Other Side will contain a cover of The Beatles’ “Help” (also featuring Victoria, Russell, Franklin, and Armstrong), a solo arrangement of “That’s How Rumors Get Started,” and “Hey Child.” In a statement, Price reflected on the year since she released the excellent That’s How Rumors Get Started and shared how Tina Turner influenced her new project. “I hope it kept you warm during those cold, lonely nights,” she said about Rumors. “Some things changed f...
BTS Test Out New Hand Gestures on ‘Colbert’: Watch
BTS is breaking everything right now, mostly records. On Tuesday night (May 25), the K-pop phenom stopped by Stephen Colbert’s Late Show for a moment producers hope will break the Internet. Yes, RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin V, and Jung Kook grabbed that late-night slot and shared with the world a bunch of new hand gestures that, almost certainly, will become popular with ARMY everywhere. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
BTS Is Smooth With ‘Butter’ Performance on ‘Colbert’: Watch
If stayed up late, and you’re keen for slick choreography, moves, looks and hooks, you’ve got it. The K-pop superstars gave us their best in a grand ballroom, fitted out with glorious chandeliers and art deco features, and raining with gold glitter. According to data provided by YouTube, the “Butter” video set a new all-time 24-hour record of 108.2 million views, breaking the band’s own previous record of 101.1 million views for their first English-language song, “Dynamite.” And with more than 20.9 million global streams, “Butter” racked-up the largest single-day streams for a song in Spotify’s history. BTS also dished up “Butter” last Sunday at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards, where they collected m...
Did Taylor Swift Tease the Rerecorded Release of ‘1989’: Swifties Think So
Taylor is, of course, at the beginning of a journey that will see her rerecord her catalog, starting with the recently-released Fearless (Taylor’s Version). During her spot on late-night TV, Taylor referenced 1989 and “Shake It Off,” one of its hits. There’s no argument, 1989 is in the pipeline. Though amateur sleuths are peeling back the layers, they’ve crunched the numbers, and they’ve convinced it’s all one-big TayTay easter egg… and that 1989 is coming soon. Check out some of the amateur detective work online: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blog...
Taylor Swift Is Obsessed With Stephen Colbert In Hilarious ‘Late Show’ Segment
With all that work to do, it made sense for Swift to zoom in from the studio where she’s rerecording her complete works. That’s exactly what she did. So, was “Hey Stephen” written about Colbert? Nope. C’mon. Swift recorded it back in the day when she was 18, he was probably 44. “It’s just the power of music,” she explained, dismissing him. “Don’t flatter yourself.” Then, matters took a strange turn when Swift held up something she prepared earlier, a mood board stacked with pictures of Colbert. Swift then flexed her comic-acting chops by walking us through some stalker-ish knowledge of Steph’s little-known table-waiting history and every fine detail down to his social security number. “You Need to Calm Down” also isn’t about Stephen, maybe. “Hey Stephen” is actually, in Swift’s own words, ...
Low Cut Connie Announce Covers Album Tough Cookies: The Best of The Quarantine Broadcasts
Philadelphia rockers Low Cut Connie have announced a new compilation, Tough Cookies: The Best of The Quarantine Broadcasts, collecting cover songs recorded during the band’s twice-weekly live streams. It will be out on May 19th digitally and on vinyl. As frontman Adam Weiner explained in a press statement, the 23-track LP pulls from his Tough Cookies live stream project with guitarist Will Donnelly, which celebrates its one-year anniversary this month. It contains just a fraction of the more than 500 covers they have performed during the broadcasts. “Two weeks into quarantine, we ‘went live’ in my spare bedroom in South Philly to cheer up our fans. There was no script, no plan, just a couple schmucks trying every form of entertainment to try to lift people’s spirits,” Weiner said. “Now a y...
Metallica Perform “Enter Sandman” on Super Bowl Edition of Colbert: Watch
Metallica rocked a special Super Bowl edition of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Sunday night. The metal masters offered up a rousing rendition of “Enter Sandman”, set against a special backdrop that paid homage to the band’s recent concert history. Entering their 40th year as a band, Metallica sounded as strong as ever on the late-night performance, with frontman James Hetfield delivering a powerful vocal. The metal icons played in front of a stack of speaker cabinets from various tours and special concerts of the past 20 years, including shows at Yankee Stadium (“Mariano Rivera Day”), Oracle Park (San Francisco Giants “Metallica Night”), and the band’s own 2013 Orion Music + More Festival in Detroit, among others. The pandemic forced Metallica off the road in 2020, but the metal le...
