EPISODE NUMBER: Season 1, Episode 124 (Tuesday, April 19, 2016)
GUESTS: Kevin Spacey | Paul Ryan | Thomas Middleditch | The Flaming Lips
FEATURING: Arturo Sandoval sitting in with Jon Batiste and Stay Human
SEGMENTS: A Word About North Carolina | Monologue – The People Have Spoken | Stephen and Arturo Sandoval Have a Trumpet Off | Everyone’s Angry About Campaign Finance | Paul Ryan Is Probably Open to Being President | Kevin Spacey | Thomas Middleditch | The Flaming Lips – “Space Oddity”
SUIT REPORT: Black Suit | White Shirt | Black/Grey/Taupe Striped Tie
Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your weekly guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ each week.
Welcome back to shows! After a week break, team LSSC is bringing out the big guns in terms of guest bookings. We kick off the week with one of the most famous women in the world, Hillary Rodham Clinton, looking for a Colbert bump in her quest to win the New York primary.
The week also features big, crowd-pleasing stars like Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It’s going to be fun! Read on and let us know who you are looking forward to seeing this week!
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EPISODE NUMBER: 8140 (August 16, 2012)
GUESTS: The Flaming Lips
EXCLUSIVE: “Do You Realize??” | “Drug Chart”
SEGMENTS: StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – Rocktaugustfest Night Four | Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan Are the Dynamish Duo | 17th Amendment Under Attack | StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – Wayne Coyne | StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – The Flaming Lips – “Ashes in the Air” | Sign Off – StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – T-Mobile Goodnight
SUIT REPORT: Admiralty Uniform | Navy Blazer with brass buttons White shirt | White pants | Yellow Ascot
VIDEOS: Thursday August 16th, 2012
Well that’s it for Colbchella folks. I’m putting my bid in for StePhest Colbchella ‘013 – Down Under!! There is plenty of room in my backyard to host a rockin’ music festival. I’ll just tell mum and dad to turn the TV up cause I’m having people over. They will never notice a thing …
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WARNING-This account is loooong, but it was about 6 hours long, well 9 hours including waiting. I like to include as much as I can remember. It may be choppy as I am writing stuff down as I remember it. I’ll try to give as much context as possible. I tried to film as much as I could of the backstage stuff that Stephen did, or anything interesting that won’t air. Photos are here and videos are here.
Here’s one pic that I took with my phone, the stage before the sun went completely down:
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Hey, Hubsters—
ROCK ON! It’s time for StePhest Colbchella 2012, Rocktaugustfest! Are you ready to dance?
This is going to be an awesome week, and one that I hope will cement Stephen’s place as a major presenter of music on TV. (Suck it, Fallon—well, actually, he’s already hosted fun. and Santigold. Just not in the same week.) Yes, the upcoming guests all represent various forms of rock, pop, emo, hip-hop, and more. But as we all know, throughout the year a wide range of singers, songwriters, and musicians visit the show, from Stephen Sondheim and Audra McDonald (singing from Porgy and Bess) to last week’s very special visit from legendary folkie Pete Seeger. Even within the “rock” label, the four bands you’re about to see in the next few days each have very different sounds, so I hope that each and every Hubster will find something to love. Or better yet, that you’ll love it all.
I’m also hoping that with all the pre-taping, Stephen has left a little time to handle current events. I know he’s cutting back to the studio, so I expect there will be an opportunity to have a brief monologue on what’s happening in the political world. With Mitt Romney’s latest outrage—the VP pick of Paul Ryan—still fresh in the headlines, it would be sad if Stephen had no chance to take it on. Of course, there’s also the Mittster’s mistake of announcing Ryan as the next President of the United States. (Only Obama happened to do that too, four years ago. I guess you hear it so much in introductions that it springs to the lips.)
Now, let’s get the party started…. and do note that the bands’ official websites all have links to buy their albums, and in some cases I have also included links to iTunes or other pages for purchase. So think about giving your favorites the Colbert bump! Continue reading
(Photo by Jason DeCrow | Invision / AP)
All that stood between Stephen Colbert and his fans Friday night was a few millimeters of plastic as he rolled across the audience inside a giant plastic space bubble, trusting his diehard fans to keep him from cascading off the USS Intrepid into New York’s Hudson river.
It was The Colbert Report host’s final performance at Pepsi Presents StePhest Colbchella ‘012: Rocktaugustfest, a musical festival Colbert presented as a fight against the “half-naked patchouli-soaked white-guy-dreadlock festivals” like Coachella and Bonnaroo that occur each summer.
On board the retired aircraft carrier on a stage lit by bright bulbs spelling “COLBERT,” the comedian managed to cajole more feelings of hippie-love and camaraderie than his conservative television alter-ego would normally hope for – except that these feelings were directed entirely at the empire that is Stephen Colbert.
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The Flaming Lips
GUESTS: Kevin Spacey | Paul Ryan | Thomas Middleditch | The Flaming Lips
FEATURING: Arturo Sandoval sitting in with Jon Batiste and Stay Human
SEGMENTS: A Word About North Carolina | Monologue – The People Have Spoken | Stephen and Arturo Sandoval Have a Trumpet Off | Everyone’s Angry About Campaign Finance | Paul Ryan Is Probably Open to Being President | Kevin Spacey | Thomas Middleditch | The Flaming Lips – “Space Oddity”
SUIT REPORT: Black Suit | White Shirt | Black/Grey/Taupe Striped Tie
Welcome back to shows! After a week break, team LSSC is bringing out the big guns in terms of guest bookings. We kick off the week with one of the most famous women in the world, Hillary Rodham Clinton, looking for a Colbert bump in her quest to win the New York primary.
The week also features big, crowd-pleasing stars like Tom Hanks, Kevin Spacey, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. It’s going to be fun! Read on and let us know who you are looking forward to seeing this week!
Continue reading
GUESTS: The Flaming Lips
EXCLUSIVE: “Do You Realize??” | “Drug Chart”
SEGMENTS: StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – Rocktaugustfest Night Four | Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan Are the Dynamish Duo | 17th Amendment Under Attack | StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – Wayne Coyne | StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – The Flaming Lips – “Ashes in the Air” | Sign Off – StePhest Colbchella ‘012 – T-Mobile Goodnight
SUIT REPORT: Admiralty Uniform | Navy Blazer with brass buttons White shirt | White pants | Yellow Ascot
VIDEOS: Thursday August 16th, 2012
Well that’s it for Colbchella folks. I’m putting my bid in for StePhest Colbchella ‘013 – Down Under!! There is plenty of room in my backyard to host a rockin’ music festival. I’ll just tell mum and dad to turn the TV up cause I’m having people over. They will never notice a thing …
© Comedy Central tumblr
Continue reading
Here’s one pic that I took with my phone, the stage before the sun went completely down:
Continue reading
Hey, Hubsters—
This is going to be an awesome week, and one that I hope will cement Stephen’s place as a major presenter of music on TV. (Suck it, Fallon—well, actually, he’s already hosted fun. and Santigold. Just not in the same week.) Yes, the upcoming guests all represent various forms of rock, pop, emo, hip-hop, and more. But as we all know, throughout the year a wide range of singers, songwriters, and musicians visit the show, from Stephen Sondheim and Audra McDonald (singing from Porgy and Bess) to last week’s very special visit from legendary folkie Pete Seeger. Even within the “rock” label, the four bands you’re about to see in the next few days each have very different sounds, so I hope that each and every Hubster will find something to love. Or better yet, that you’ll love it all.
I’m also hoping that with all the pre-taping, Stephen has left a little time to handle current events. I know he’s cutting back to the studio, so I expect there will be an opportunity to have a brief monologue on what’s happening in the political world. With Mitt Romney’s latest outrage—the VP pick of Paul Ryan—still fresh in the headlines, it would be sad if Stephen had no chance to take it on. Of course, there’s also the Mittster’s mistake of announcing Ryan as the next President of the United States. (Only Obama happened to do that too, four years ago. I guess you hear it so much in introductions that it springs to the lips.)
Now, let’s get the party started…. and do note that the bands’ official websites all have links to buy their albums, and in some cases I have also included links to iTunes or other pages for purchase. So think about giving your favorites the Colbert bump! Continue reading
(Photo by Jason DeCrow | Invision / AP)