Some good news for The Late Show viewers! Monday night saw host Stephen Colbert return to the studio (sort of) the newest episode of his late-night show. (James Corden also returned to his studio set, in case you're interested.) This is the first time Colbert has taped an Late Show episode outside of his home in five months. Previously, fans were treated to Colbert hosting The Late Show from his own home after temporarily moving production at the beginning of the global pandemic. Monday night's Late Show episode was taped near the Ed Sullivan Theater rather than …

If you’re finding this whole coronavirus shutdown and quarantine a bit trying, here’s a little something to cheer you up: Stephen Colbert and Ryan Reynolds drinking gin and shooting the shit. As I’ve written about over the last week or so, late night TV has returned in full force with adjustments made for social distancing, and it’s oddly comforting. Colbert is hosting new episodes of The Late Show from his house, as fellow late night personalities like Seth Meyers and Conan O’Brien are doing the same. And Colbert is really knocking this whole “Skype interview” …

The global reality that just about anyone and everyone is working from home has revealed a number of interesting things: Late-night TV show hosts have been quick to adapt to the fact that they can only air their shows and reach viewers through video conferencing, that the "show must go on" regardless of technical difficulties, and that some of these folks have never held a job at an IT help desk. That last bit was evident in a recent at-home segment of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in which the host welcomed Harry Potter and Miracle Workers: …

While production on all late night TV shows has been suspended, that didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from delivering an all-new monologue last night before a rerun of The Late Show. Colbert popped up out of nowhere at the beginning of the episode, having recorded a new monologue from his own bathtub. The setup is admittedly a bit rough—the camera quality isn’t quite what folks are used to—but it’s a neat and funny way to keep things fresh and interesting while the world attempts to beat back a deadly pandemic. Indeed, good on Colbert for …

Stephen Colbert, Lord of the Rings fanboy and host of The Late Show, is going to New Zealand for a LOTR 'spinoff' with Peter Jackson.