Stephen Colbert was on
The Late Show yesterday and he talked to David Letterman about him taking over the CBS late night show sometime next year. Even though the Comedy Central host asked when Letterman’s last day is, Dave didn’t have an answer for him. So Colbert’s family will be stuck with him for longer than they hoped, according to him.
While that question wasn’t answered, Stephen did find out he will get paid for this job unlike the first one Letterman’s then NBC late night show offered him. You see back in 1986, Colbert went with his now-ex-girlfriend to interview she had for an internship at Late Night and he’s the one that got the job and she didn’t. He then turned it down because he realized that interns don’t get paid money. So he wanted to make sure that this time around he would get more than college credit. And he does!
The two men talked about a whole lot of stuff. The biggest thing I took away from it, is that Stephen Colbert is going to be an excellent replacement whenever he takes over the show in 2015.
I am sad to see Letterman go after all of this time, but I know the show is being given to someone who is the perfect fit for it. As we witnessed from his 1997 Top Ten List that he read on the show last night. That time around Colbert didn’t get the writing job on The Late Show he applied for back then. Instead he wound up with Strangers with Candy. Who knows what would’ve happened if he had taken that internship or he’d gotten the writing job? Maybe we wouldn’t be saying The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in about a year. See everything happens for a reason and that reason was to give us a suitable replacement to the man who changed late night forever.
