The Late Show with Stephen Colbert won’t quite be over on May 6, and Barack Obama‘s presidential library won’t quite be open, but the duo will be sitting down for a chat next month just before the late night host heads into the CBS sunset.
In what will be Colbert and Obama’s final midnight hour interview, the former Colbert Report frontman made the big get disclosure near the top of the Late Show tonight.
“Folks before we get started, I have a quick but exciting announcement,” Colbert said from behind his desk at NYC’s Ed Sullivan Theater. “Tuesday May 5 here on The Late Show in his first interview from the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, I will be sitting down with former President Barack Obama,” he added to cheers from the hyped up crowd – take a look below
In typical no drama Obama fashion, the Obama Foundation IG feed said: “Couch booked. Volume up. Ready to go.”
After Colbert and the whole long running Late Night franchise was pink slipped last year by a pre-David Ellison Paramount regime, due to financial considerations (and if you believe that I have a planned Donald Trump Presidential Library in Miami to sell you) the now Emmy winner has become a much valued stop on the Resistance path.
Having sat down with the 44th POTUS back three times in his Comedy Central days and in 2016 and 2020 on the CBS show, Colbert also MC’d the multi-POTUS fundraiser for Joe Biden with Obama and Bill Clinton at Radio City Music Hall on March 28, 2024.
Starting construction in 2021, the multi-purpose Barack Obama Presidential Center is set to officially open to the public on June 19 after a A-lister packed dedication ceremony the day before. The final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is set to air on May 21, 2026.
The very next day, a Friday, Comics Unleashed will be in the Late Show‘s spot. Byron Allen bought the Late Show’s time slot off CBS to move his Comics Unleashed up an hour after Colbert exits. Or, as David Letterman put it recently of CBS: “They don’t want to spend any money, so they’re going to make money.”
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