Colbert Returns to Live Cheers and a Lively Jon Stewart
The New York Times
The “Late Show” host meets an audience ready to exhale and gets a visit from a ranty old friend.
It took Stephen Colbert 15 months to get back in front of a full, live audience telling jokes. Then it took a minute or two more. Colbert took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater Monday after a song-and-dance cold open in which the host reunited with his work trousers. But before he could start his monologue, there was a big hug with his bandleader, Jon Batiste, and there was the audience, standing, cheering, chanting his name.More Related News