Fans of the Marvel not-quite superhero Deadpool know that the wise-cracking, Looney Tunes-immortal “merc with a mouth”’s real superpower is cheeky self-awareness. After Wade Wilson’s initial conception as yet another 1990s “extreme” antihero (and Deathstroke knockoff), Deadpool’s popularity grew in proportion to his…
On Monday’s Late Show, Anthony Anderson addressed the online ire of jittery Black-ish fans unsettled by the ongoing, genuinely wrenching marital troubles of his Dre and Tracee Ellis Ross’ Bow Johnson. The animated Anderson seemed perversely delighted at the all-caps warnings from Black-ish viewers on his Instagram…
Rap duo Run The Jewels and Late Show host Stephen Colbert have beef. No, not about Killer Mike’s deeply disappointing recent endorsement of the infamously racist gun lobby trade organization masquerading as a civil rights group, the National Rifle Association. Instead, as watchers of The Late Show know, Killer Mike…
On Friday’s Late Show to promote his new album Boarding House Reach, Jack White first spent some poking fun at his image as one of modern rock’s foremost weirdos. Joining Stephen Colbert before his in-studio performance, White amiably goofed on his image as “guy auditioning to take over should Tim Burton have a…
It’s not really a stretch to say that Kevin Smith has become much more entertaining in person than in his films over the years, with the writer/director/podcast maven/raconteur’sHollywood name-dropping one-man shows providing a charmingly self-deprecating running commentary on Smith’s life and career. So much so that,…
Whether playing Sterling Archer, Bob Belcher, Ben Katz, Coach John McGuirk, or the most unexpectedly soulful can of mixed vegetables in movie and TV history, H. Jon Benjamin just makes failure funny. On Friday’s Late Show to promote Archer’s latest narrative left turn (the super-spy is basically Rip Riley as Indiana…
Ann Dowd may not yet be as meme-worthy as “character actress Margo Martindale,” but she and Martindale undoubtedly get sent a lot of the “deceptively terrifying lady who looks like your third grade teacher” scripts. On The Leftovers and The Handmaid’s Tale, Dowd has at least nosed into a tie with The Americans and …
Midway through an interview largely given over to the ongoing discussion about the problematic nature of his 29-year run as Springfield’s most prominent South Asian character voiced by a white guy, Hank Azaria told Stephen Colbert that he was just as unpleasantly surprised by The Simpsons’ recent, defensive…
Actress turned political candidate Cynthia Nixon was Stephen Colbert’s first guest on Wednesday’s Late Show, and refuted any doubts people might have about her intentions. After announcing her run for governor of New York three weeks ago, Nixon has endured all the expected slights from those suggesting that…
On a day when ratings revealed that Stephen Colbert’s overtly political—if smartly silly—style has continued to vault him over his late-night competitors, the Late Show host unpacked a powerhouse of a show. The big story, taking up three entire segments, was Colbert’s much-hyped interview with former FBI Director…
Last February, Stephen Colbert’s Late Show got higher ratings than Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show for the first time, coming off a steady increase in Colbert’s ratings that began at about the same time as Donald Trump’s poorly attended inauguration. From there, The Late Show topped all of its competitors during…
Sure, he may routinely call for the ouster of America’s second-largest sentient piece of saltwater taffy (marmite-flavored, because there’s nothing appealing about it) from political office during his monologues, but it turns out Stephen Colbert is actually fairly opposed to the idea of impeaching the 45th President…
Sure, any Twitter wag or online jokester can call out blankly blinking Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson for recently devoting airtime to the supposed predatory sex-and-violence exploits of panda bears in a transparently sweaty attempt to talk about anything but the fact that the home, office, and hotel room of the…
On Friday’s Late Show, host Stephen Colbert welcomed 93-year-old former President Jimmy Carter for a friendly chat—with an ulterior motive. First, Colbert, introducing the former POTUS as a Nobel Prize winner, nuclear engineer, and peanut farmer, was content to praise Carter’s post-presidency career as tireless …
The Dana Carvey Show is one of those short-lived TV series whose reputation has only grown since it was unceremoniously shit-canned by ABC back in 1996. Centered on Saturday Night Live vet and world champion mugger Carvey, the series is now best known for the collection of writers and performers around him, most of…
On The Late Show to promote his new novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff (initially written as his nom de plume Pappy Pariah), Sean Penn referred obliquely to his long and storied history of being a very public prick by suggesting to Stephen Colbert that readers might enjoy his book “despite being predisposed to loathe…
On Wednesday’s Late Show, Stephen Colbert took a field trip down to Washington D.C. for a meeting with 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice and woman to whose health the nation nightly prays, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. By “for a meeting,” one might substitute, as Colbert did, “getting shredded,” as the pair sat (then lunged,…
On Monday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote the upcoming second season of The Santa Clarita Diet (coming to Netflix on Friday, March 23), Drew Barrymore instead spent much of her time breaking down her reaction to the accelerating #MeToo and #TimesUp movements in Hollywood. The acting, producing, and…
On Wednesday’s Late Show to promote the return of his Showtime series Billions, Paul Giamatti sandwiched in the requisite promotional chat between some simpatico silliness with host Stephen Colbert. Reminiscing about when the two of them got in trouble with their publicists at a Television Critics Association presser…
Five-time Super Bowl champion, three-time NFL MVP, and master of both quarterbacking and the grinning non-answer Tom Brady brought his customarily smooth A game to The Late Show on Monday. Sitting down for a couple of segments with host Stephen Colbert, the Patriots signal-caller, there to pitch his new diet,…
