Stephen Colbert celebrated the worst ideas from 'The Late Show' with the help of Michael Keaton and TK.
Monday night’s show opened with a bit featuring Keaton, who appeared outside Colbert’s 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.
“That pigeon looks just like Michael Keaton,” 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. The real Keaton eventually woke Colbert up and the duo discussed Colbert’s idea to have a celebrity dress up like a pigeon as a bit.
After Keaton told him he loved the idea, Colbert admitted, “Here’s the thing: We ran out of shows and we couldn’t fit the bit in. But then I thought, ‘Wait, what if we did a worst ofepisode? ’ It’d 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.
”That become the theme of the entire episode, which celebrated several very dumb ideas from Colbert and his writers.
“There’s so many important things going on in the world, but a lot of that stuff’s a drag,” Colbert told the audience before skipping his monologue entirely. “Here’s the deal: We thought we might just take it a little easy tonight because we’ve been doing this show for almost 11 year, almost 1,800 shows at this point.
” He noted that they definitely had enough material for a “best of” clip show, but instead decided to focus on the worst idea.
“We thought it would be more fun to show you stuff we’ve made and never aired and call it ‘The Worst of. ’ Although technically what you’re about to see is the best worst stuff we ever made. Still, not great. ”, 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 “It’s Raining Fish,” which got an assist from Paul Schaffer.will air its final episode on May 21. Tonight’s episode will feature interviews with Steven Spielberg and Colbert’s cohort Jon Stewart, as well as a performance by David Byrne with Colbert.
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