Ageless wonder Paul Rudd was named People’s latest Sexiest Man Alive, but not before Stephen Colbert, a “sexiness adjudicator,” put the actor through a rigorous interview process on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert, as a representative of the LSSC Sexiness Research Institute, was tasked with finding the new Sexiest Man Alive, …
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Tune-Yards delivered a joyous rendition of their recent single, “Hold Yourself,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday, February 22nd. The performance found Merrill Garbus, Nate Brenner, and their backing band channeling a kind of Seventies children’s show vibe, filling the set with bright monochrome colors. Garbus started the …
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Sara Bareilles was the musical guest on Thursday night’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert, performing the song “More Love,” which she wrote for the Apple TV Plus series Little Voice. Like all late-night performances during the Covid-19 pandemic, Bareilles and her band recorded a pre-taped performance in a separate space from the …
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The Chicks’ first new album in 14 years,Gaslighter, is out Friday (July 17th). Ahead of the release, the group formerly known as the Dixie Chicks performed “March March” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Inspired by the 2018 March for Our Lives youth protest against gun violence, the protest …
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Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil’s 1987 song “Beds Are Burning” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert‘s #PlayAtHome music series. For their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker. While the song is about …
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On the latest at-home episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert paid tribute to his friend John Prine, who is currently hospitalized due to complications with the coronavirus. The late-night host shared a previously unaired performance from 2016, where he joined Prine for a duet of “That’s the Way the …
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The Weeknd appeared on The Late Show to perform his latest single, “Heartless,” which got a trippy, Vegas-inspired music video earlier this week. The singer kept things similarly hallucinogenic during the performance, which he took to the halls of the late night show’s studio rather than the stage. In the …
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After Jon Stewart recently gave an emotional testimony before a House Judiciary Committee to ask Congress to extend the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell claimed that the former late night host was “bent out of shape” about nothing. Stewart responded to that statement on The …
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Stephen Colbert opened his Friday night monologue on The Late Show by reminding his audience that the show would bedoing a rare live broadcast on November 6th, election night, before addressing what might actually bring the Republicans down. “Everybody is excited the midterms are 18 days away. Eighteen days away …
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson defended Donald Trump’s Space Force plan to Stephen Colbert during a visit to The Late Show Tuesday. “People make fun of it, I among them. I like space exploration, I’m excited about us conquering space scientifically and through knowledge, but why do we need the Space …
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