Stephen Colbert Escaped Late Night time and Instantly Began Having Enjoyable – Mother Jones

Jack White and Stephen Colbert share a hotdog on public entry present Only in Monroe. (Screenshot/Monroe Community Media.)

In a pleasant Easter egg for followers of Stephen Colbert, native tv, or the inconceivable mixture of the 2, following Colbert’s last-ever Late Show, he popped up the next day because the visitor host of “Only in Monroe,” a public entry present in Monroe, Michigan. Colbert offered an hour of native information, assisted, kind of, by his “volunteer musical director,” a deadpan Jack White hunched over a reel-to-reel tape deck with headphones clamped over his ears.

“It’s been an excruciating 23 hours without being on TV,” Colbert declared. “So I am grateful to be here on Monroe Community Media before they are also acquired by Paramount.”

“We don’t have any sponsors? We actually lost a lot of money making this show tonight?” he additionally requested, peering offscreen on the crew. “Now I know how CBS felt.”

Colbert beforehand guest-hosted “Only in Monroe” in 2015, and joked on the outset that he hadn’t slept since then. He led the guffawing digital camera crew by way of a collection of jokes about native weed dispensaries, Monroe’s model of Comic Con, and a section a couple of feud between two native sizzling canine companies.

Colbert’s friends on this system included “Only in Monroe’s” regular hosts, Michelle Baumann and Kaye Lani Rae Rafko. Jeff Daniels, who was raised in Chelsea, Michigan, additionally sat down for an interview, whereas Steve Buscemi learn an advert for an area pizza place, Buscemi Pizza, whereas reminding viewers, “I’ve got nothing to do with it.”

At one other level within the broadcast, White, a local son of Detroit, joined Colbert to pattern Monroe-style sizzling canines. They consumed them, as White dryly put it, “Lady and the Tramp-style,” as the whole digital camera crew cracked up off-camera. Colbert additionally handled viewers to a helium-addled rendition of The White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl” as White struggled to not snort. At the shut of this system, Colbert gifted the present’s inventive director Genevieve Benson a ham topped with a birthday hat and a lit sparkler.

The entire factor was hilarious, awkward, and gloriously pointless. While the president of the United States seethes over Colbert, the person himself made it clear that he intends to make use of his sudden wealth of freedom to get pleasure from himself.