Stephen Colbert would love to have Donald Trump return as a guest on “The Late Show”, but knows it probably won’t happen. “I don’t regret the attempt,” Colbert tells former New York Times TV writer Bill Carter while appearing on his Sirius Xm talk show, “The Bill Carter Interview”. “I regret that that’s probably the only […]...
- 9/30/2016
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Stephen Colbert isn't holding back his words when it comes to Donald Trump. In an upcoming interview with Bill Carter on SiriusXM, the late-night talk show host calls the Republican presidential nominee a "coward" and a "chicken" for not returning as a guest on CBS' The Late Show. After clucking and squawking to drive the point home, Colbert says wryly, "He's got a great sense of humor about himself. I'm sure he won't mind." Carter joins in the teasing too: "Come on, Donald. Step up," the host encourages. The rambunctious interview takes a couple other amusingly controversial turns, as
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- 9/30/2016
- by Tobias Burns
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Is there a late-night war? Not if you look at the ratings. Jimmy Fallon beat Stephen Colbert 56 out of 60 nights, and has only widened his lead in the golden 18-to-49 demographic. This was by design. You may have noticed that the night after Stephen Colbert's highly anticipated debut on September 8 as David Letterman's successor on The Late Show, Jimmy Fallon brought out the big guns the very next night, enlisting Bff Justin Timberlake to do another iteration of History of Rap, and morning host Ellen DeGeneres to face off with him in a lip-sync battle. Writing for THR, Bill Carter reports that this was all "very much the host's idea" to stop Colbert from hitting on a hot streak. In fact, he reports that "one prominent late-night player" said that facing the show that night of September 9 was like "going up against Hiroshima and Nagasaki." (You know,'cause...
- 12/17/2015
- by E. Alex Jung
- Vulture
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