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The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert won’t rather beryllium complete connected May 6, and Barack Obama‘s statesmanlike room won’t rather beryllium open, but nan duo will beryllium sitting down for a chat adjacent period conscionable earlier nan precocious nighttime big heads into nan CBS sunset.
In what will beryllium Colbert and Obama’s last midnight hr interview, nan erstwhile Colbert Report frontman made nan large get disclosure adjacent nan apical of the Late Show tonight.
“Folks earlier we get started, I person a speedy but breathtaking announcement,” Colbert said from down his table astatine NYC’s Ed Sullivan Theater. “Tuesday May 5 present on The Late Show in his first question and reply from nan Obama Presidential Center successful Chicago, I will beryllium sitting down pinch erstwhile President Barack Obama,” he added to cheers from nan hyped up crowd – return a look below
After Colbert and nan full agelong moving Late Night franchise was pinkish slipped past twelvemonth by a pre-David Ellison Paramount regime, owed to financial considerations (and if you judge that I person a planned Donald Trump Presidential Library successful Miami to waste you) nan now Emmy victor has go a overmuch weighted extremity connected nan Resistance path.
Having sat down pinch nan 44th POTUS backmost 3 times successful his Comedy Central days and successful 2016 and 2020 connected nan CBS show, Colbert besides MC’d nan multi-POTUS fundraiser for Joe Biden pinch Obama and Bill Clinton astatine Radio City Music Hall connected March 28, 2024.
Starting building successful 2021, nan multi-purpose Barack Obama Presidential Center is group to officially unfastened to nan nationalist connected June 19 aft a A-lister packed dedication ceremonial nan time before. The last section of The Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert is group to aerial connected May 21, 2026.
The very adjacent day, a Friday, Comics Unleashed will beryllium successful the Late Show‘s spot. Byron Allen bought the Late Show’s clip slot disconnected CBS to move his Comics Unleashed up an hr aft Colbert exits. Or, arsenic David Letterman put it precocious of CBS: “They don’t want to walk immoderate money, truthful they’re going to make money.”
