{"id":612518,"date":"2025-12-04T22:23:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612518\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T22:23:14","slug":"was-harry-referencing-trump-in-joke-for-late-show-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/612518\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Harry referencing Trump in joke for Late Show sketch?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Referencing US TV network CBS’ recent settlement with Trump<\/a>, the duke joked he would “do anything” to get the part, adding: “I’ll record a self-tape, I’ll fly myself to an audition, settle a baseless lawsuit with the White House – all the things you people in TV do.”<\/p>\n

Colbert replied: “Hey, I didn’t do any of those things,” to which Harry said: “Maybe that’s why you’re cancelled.”<\/p>\n

He was referencing The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ending in May 2026 after 33 years on air, in a surprise announcement from CBS in July<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The sketch then featured festive trees and sleigh bells ringing, with the duke telling Colbert to “just believe”.<\/p>\n

Colbert later told the prince he would give him the role as “official Late Show prince of Christmas”, to cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Colbert’s other guests were Michael Shannon, who is in the newly released film Nuremberg, and Irish actress and singer Jessie Buckley, who co-stars in the forthcoming film Hamnet with Paul Mescal.<\/p>\n

This was the prince’s second Late Show appearance. In January 2023 he was there to promote his memoir Spare<\/a>, and that show set a two-year viewership record, making global headlines.<\/p>\n

The Duchess of Sussex shared the announcement of the prince’s latest appearance in a clip on her Instagram story.<\/p>\n

The duke and duchess moved to California in 2020 after announcing they would step back as “senior” royals and work to become financially independent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Referencing US TV network CBS’ recent settlement with Trump, the duke joked he would “do anything” to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-612518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115663641379602768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}