{"id":492322,"date":"2026-05-19T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492322\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:13:12","slug":"watch-stephen-colbert-celebrate-the-worst-of-the-late-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/492322\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stephen Colbert Celebrate the Worst of ‘The Late Show’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s officially the last week<\/a> of The Late Show<\/a>. For one of his final episodes, Stephen Colbert<\/a> paid tribute to some of the worst ideas the late-night show has had, including dressing Michael Keaton<\/a> up as a pigeon. <\/p>\n

\n\tMonday night\u2019s show opened with a bit featuring Keaton, who appeared outside Colbert\u2019s office window as a literal bird man. In the clip, Colbert was struggling to come up with a show idea featuring the actor when he spotted pigeon Keaton tapping on the glass and strutting outside. \u201cThat pigeon looks just like Michael Keaton,\u201d he mused. It turned out to be a surreal dream, in which Keaton and Colbert, both as pigeons, fought over a slice of old pizza. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe real Keaton eventually woke Colbert up and the duo discussed Colbert\u2019s idea to have a celebrity dress up like a pigeon as a bit. After Keaton told him he loved the idea, Colbert admitted, \u201cHere\u2019s the thing: We ran out of shows and we couldn\u2019t fit the bit in. But then I thought, \u2018Wait, what if we did a worst of The Late Show episode?\u2019 It\u2019d feature all of the weird bits that either completely failed or things that we as a staff liked but thought the audience would absolutely hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cYou know, as if the ratings didn\u2019t even matter any more.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThat become the theme of the entire episode, which celebrated several very dumb ideas from Colbert and his writers. \u201cThere\u2019s so many important things going on in the world, but a lot of that stuff\u2019s a drag,\u201d Colbert told the audience before skipping his monologue entirely. \u201cHere\u2019s the deal: We thought we might just take it a little easy tonight because we\u2019ve been doing this show for almost 11 year, almost 1,800 shows at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe noted that they definitely had enough material for a \u201cbest of\u201d clip show, but instead decided to focus on the worst idea. \u201cWe thought it would be more fun to show you stuff we\u2019ve made and never aired and call it \u2018The Worst of The Late Show.\u2019 Although technically what you\u2019re about to see is the best worst stuff we ever made. Still, not great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode included Colbert reminiscing on some odd and unfortunate moments from filming The Late Show, and the host chatting with some of his staff about their roles on the show. Towards the end, Colbert brought out staff writer Michael Cruz Kayne for a musical number called \u201cIt\u2019s Raining Fish,\u201d which got an assist from Paul Schaffer. <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Late Show will air its final episode on May 21. Tonight\u2019s episode will feature interviews with Steven Spielberg and Colbert\u2019s\u00a0Daily Show\u00a0cohort\u00a0Jon Stewart, as well as a performance by\u00a0David Byrne\u00a0with Colbert. The Wednesday, May 20 episode will include a performance by\u00a0Bruce Springsteen\u00a0as well as appearances by special guests, with Colbert also answering his own \u201cThe Colbert Questionert\u201d for the first time.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously reported, the other late-night shows will cede the spotlight to\u00a0The Late Show\u00a0on Colbert\u2019s final night, with\u00a0both Jimmy Fallon\u00a0and\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel\u00a0airing repeats on May 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s officially the last week of The Late Show. For one of his final episodes, Stephen Colbert paid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,5432,50491,4951,7671,128],"class_list":["post-492322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-late-night-tv","tag-michael-keaton","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-the-late-show","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116601186391549209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}