How long will StephenAtHome host colbertlateshow? “I’m having a really good time. I am more excited about continuing to do this show now than I was a month ago. I feel like I could do the show for 10 years. But call me in a week. Because it changes.”
It is the first night of his second week back with a live studio audience doing CBS’ “” at the Ed Sullivan Theater. He’s still on an adrenaline high from his return to the 400-seat Broadway venue after 15 long months in the wilderness of delivering monologues and conducting interviews without the feedback that comes from working in front of a crowd.
The comedian, who first came to fame as a “Daily Show” correspondent, has never been more comfortable being the real Stephen Colbert on air, after months of opening up about his family life and effortlessly demonstrating his powerful bond with his wife of 28 years, Evie Colbert. Colbert’s interviewing skills have been sharpened by months of longer and often more intimate and less plug-the-project-focused exchanges with guests.
Colbert at present has a budding roster of shows produced with “The Late Show” showrunner and executive producer Chris Licht. The latest has Colbert teamed with radio provocateur Charlamagne Tha God to executive produce a weekly half-hour series for Comedy Central, “Tha God’s Honest Truth With Lenard ‘Charlamagne McKelvey,” set to debut Sept. 17.
“Ultimately, I think you should do these shows as if you’re putting up a college newspaper, as if no one’s watching,” Colbert says. “Forty-nine percent of my joy of doing the show the audience never sees. Working with this staff and seeing them rise to the occasion. And wanting to be as dedicated to getting the show right as a performer as they are to getting it right from a technical or production end.
Bracco is among those who have been with Colbert since 2005. She recalls working around the clock early in the pandemic to get equipment and production resources shipped to individual staffers’ homes as needed, among other tasks, as the production team splintered into remote work mode. “My husband would slide food under the door at 6 o’clock,” she says. “There was no phoning it in.”
Colbert admits the show had no choice but to push hard. For one thing, each episode needed about 20% more material to make up for the lack of audience laughter. For another, Colbert’s relocation to his native South Carolina coincided with the trauma of the pandemic and the social justice uprising sparked by George Floyd’s murder.
Colbert’s appreciation was further demonstrated by the decision he and Evie made to cover some of “Late Show’s” payroll for much of the COVID downtime. Evie calls it “an enormous privilege” for the couple to be able to show gratitude for the work done at every level of “The Late Show.” Robert Morton, a veteran late-night producer who worked with David Letterman, gives credit to Colbert and other hosts for surviving the pandemic and providing a sense of consistency to the nation. Morton produced a few episodes of Letterman’s “Late Night” and “Late Show” without an audience, and they were not pleasant experiences.
“The firehose of misinformation or disinformation and the attempts to make all of us feel crazy by thinking that this was crazy gave us a very interesting place to stand,” Colbert says. “We finally came to the realization that we knew exactly where we wanted to stand — on dry land. Because the rising tide of the administration’s mendacity made it very clear that the only thing left for us to do was to say, ‘No, no, no. That’s not true. No, we’re not crazy. They’re crazy for saying that.
Colbert was in the right place at the right time to be the voice that many turned to for perspective with humor at a unsettling time. Colbert hasn’t spent much time thinking what the past four years would have been like under a Hillary Rodham Clinton administration. “I would argue that for what the country was facing, we were the best version of the show that we could be,” Rehrig said. “Everybody was doing what we were doing. Everyone was working from home or in different circumstances.”
On that Friday night, Licht was watching a “Late Show” Slack channel to monitor the delivery of the episode to CBS’ broadcast operations department, as he always does. From CBS president-CEO George Cheeks and CBS Studios president David Stapf on down, network brass have been rock-steady in their support of the show, Licht stresses. But there were consequences for pushing the outside of the envelope on the episode delivery deadline.
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