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00:00The longer the Strait of Rameau's remains closed, the more red flags are waving that prices here at home could
00:08go up.
00:08The boss of the world's biggest condom maker, Carex, says the firm will raise prices by up to 30 percent
00:14or possibly more
00:15if the war continues to disrupt supplies of the raw materials and its products.
00:21The following is a message from the White House.
00:25With the price of condoms skyrocketing, President Trump is stepping up to offer affordable alternatives for preventing unintended pregnancies.
00:34Introducing Operation Pupic Fury.
00:37The president has signed an executive order encouraging Americans to take a shot to the nards.
00:44It's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
01:12And now, live on tape from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City.
01:18It's Stephen Colbert.
01:35Woo!
01:39Welcome, friends and neighbors, to The Late Show.
01:41I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
01:43Ladies and gentlemen.
01:45How are you?
01:45You guys good?
01:46Doing good.
01:46Doing good.
01:47Good to see you.
01:47Good to see you.
01:48Good to see you.
01:49Folks, I try to remember not to be in Washington, D.C. as often as possible,
01:55but there is certainly no time I am there less than the weekend of the White House Correspondence
02:00Dinner, which is why this Saturday I will again not be.
02:10But, but, and it's a big but, but for reasons that are not clear to me,
02:15many others will.
02:17If you're not familiar with the White House Correspondence Dinner, it is traditionally a light-hearted night
02:23when the press and politicians get together and, in my personal experience, stare in dead-eyed
02:28silence at the performer while the president mentally orders a hit by SEAL Team 6.
02:35And this Saturday's dinner will be historic because this, for the first time as president, Donald
02:43Trump is attending and reportedly, in his remarks, he's planning to attack the press and target
02:49publications he is accused of writing negatively about his administration.
02:55No, all you reporters are enemies of the people, I hate you all, and if you call me, I will
03:04pick up every time.
03:06Seriously, anytime, niner day, I'm telling you, I will do that, I will, if I'm anywhere, if I'm on the
03:14toilet,
03:14if I'm having dinner, if I'm having dinner on the toilet, okay?
03:20That's a real time-saver, folks.
03:23The word is, after he rips the press corps a new one, Trump is going to immediately leave
03:29so he will miss the annual presentation of the press awards.
03:34I'm not going to understand why he's going to dip, because one of these awards, and this
03:37is true, is going to the Wall Street Journal for its scoop about a certain birthday pube-doodle
03:44for Jeffrey Epstein, as well as another award for the photojournalist who took this picture
03:52of that time a man had a medical emergency right there in the Oval Office, and Trump
04:00just stood there like he was waiting for a bus.
04:04It's so crazy that he didn't help, especially now that we know that he is a doctor.
04:11He's right there.
04:14He's right there.
04:15He's right there.
04:17Nice.
04:18Oh, nice.
04:18So generous.
04:20Contrary to tradition, this year, no one will be roasting Trump, because instead of a comedian,
04:27the White House Correspondents Association hired mentalist Oz Perlman, seen here foreseeing
04:34that you are not going to like it when he honks your boob.
04:51Today, Perlman hinted that Trump won't just be watching, but participating in his act, saying,
04:57Reading Donald Trump's mind is arguably the most impressive thing you could ever do.
05:05Really?
05:07Really?
05:08Reading his mind?
05:09When has he not immediately just blurted out whatever's rattling around in his skull?
05:14I bet you can't read my mind.
05:16What number am I thinking of, three?
05:21Turning...
05:23Reading his mind.
05:25Okay.
05:26Okay.
05:26Turning to the war with Iran, we have breaking news.
05:32That there is no breaking news.
05:38In fact, there's nothing going...
05:40There are no negotiations currently ongoing.
05:43And Iran says it is impossible to reopen the Strait of Hormuz amid flagrant ceasefire breaches.
05:49And Trump has doubled down by also closing the Strait of Hormuz, posting,
05:53We have total control over the state of Hormuz.
05:57No ship can enter or leave without the approval of the United States Navy.
06:02It is sealed up tight until such time as Iran is able to make a deal.
06:09He's saying the exact thing that they are.
06:12They're both saying the same thing.
06:14I'm rubber and you're rubber.
06:17We've got two rubbers.
06:18Whatever bounces off me, then bounces off you, then bounces off me again.
06:22And it goes back and forth like that for a while.
06:24And I'm sure you're asking, shouldn't there also be glue in this metaphor?
06:28No.
06:29Because I sniffed it all.
06:33High as a kite.
06:35High as a...
06:41Despite closing the Strait himself, Trump is trying to clear out Iranian mines that are
06:47out there.
06:48And also, the Iranians are putting boats out there to lay some more mines.
06:51And Trump has said,
06:52I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat.
06:58Yes.
07:00He said kill.
07:02Sounds strange.
07:03But it was the plot every week on the hit mystery series, Murder She Boat.
07:09So good.
07:11Lansbury, amazing.
07:13In a phone call with Fox News, Trump said about the war,
07:20People say I want to get it over because of the midterms.
07:23Not true.
07:24No time frame.
07:25No rush.
07:26Yeah.
07:27What's the rush?
07:28It's like General Sherman famously said,
07:30War is chill.
07:34Yeah, just...
07:37Take your time.
07:39Take your time.
07:43You know who would like some kind of time frame for the end of the war?
07:47Everyone else.
07:49Because thanks to Trump's blunder, the world's biggest airlines are cancelling flights as
07:55they face jet fuel shortages and rising prices.
07:58One carrier really, really affected by high fuel costs is Spirit Airlines.
08:03You know their slogan.
08:04Spirit Airlines, you are allowed one carry-on to use as the bathroom.
08:10Yeah.
08:11Because you're not going to want to go in there.
08:17Spirit, Spirit is on the verge of liquidation, but reportedly they're in talks with the White
08:22House for a bailout, and if it goes through, the U.S. could end up owning 90% of the
08:29struggling
08:29budget airline, which led one analyst to say, I guess it would be the Amtrak of the skies.
08:36Someone say Amtrak?
08:38Hey.
08:43Hey.
08:45What's up, Barack?
08:51He's a good guy.
08:53Good guy.
08:54Somebody say Amtrak, because I am back, Amjack.
08:59There's already an Amtrak in the sky.
09:01It's called heaven.
09:02I'll be in the dining car with Jesus Christ, Jimmy Carter, and one of the Captain Jammer
09:05kids.
09:06The other one's in hell.
09:07He killed a guy.
09:08Come on, trained.
09:10Jill.
09:11Oh, no.
09:12Jill.
09:13Oh, no.
09:17Barack.
09:28There's an update.
09:31There is an update about Health Secretary RFK Jr. this week.
09:46Bobby has been testifying before Congress about slashing HHS's new budget.
09:51But before I talk about that, I gotta tell you that according to a new book about him, he
09:56once sliced off a dead raccoon's penis while his wife and kids waited in the minivan.
10:03He took the genitals so he could, quote, study them later.
10:09Hmm.
10:12Ah, yes.
10:13Day 20 of observing the raccoon penis.
10:16It appears that it is still impossible to understand why I did this.
10:33Anyway, old Secretary Weenie Slicer is in charge of your health.
10:40And yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee grilled him about his role in recent measles
10:45outbreaks.
10:45I'm not anti-vax.
10:47I've never been anti-vax.
10:48I've always said for 20 years I'm not anti-vaccine.
10:51Now, that statement right there is what scientists call a lie.
10:55Because in the past, you can check the record.
11:00Did we check?
11:01We did.
11:01In the past, he's falsely claimed that the measles vaccine does not appear to provide
11:06maternal immunity, includes aborted fetus debris, and that protection from the vaccine
11:12wanes very quickly.
11:13So he's claiming he's pro-vaccine is a major U-turn, which is also what Bobby does
11:19whenever he sees a raccoon penis in the road.
11:23Get that minivan.
11:26Jackknifes that minivan.
11:34We're here!
11:39Somebody beat me to it.
11:42Obviously, he's trying to appear reasonable in front of Congress just there, which is a
11:47big ask for a man who looks like he has a disease called the teriyaki madness.
11:52But the weirdest part of RFK Jr.'s hearing wasn't what he said, it's what he breathed.
11:57Listen to the health secretary on the mic while being questioned.
12:03The most significant things that you have done among the many that you've described in your testimony.
12:18Is that a good sign when your health secretary breathes like a walrus snorting lobster bisque?
12:28If he sounds like a bear getting auto-erotic asphyxiated?
12:33Like he's the first person in history to need a CPAP while awake?
12:44Long-time viewers of The Late Show know that sound means we have news about fish doing drugs.
12:49Because in a new study, salmon exposed to cocaine traveled almost two times farther per week than the control group.
12:58And they were three times more likely to start a band.
13:05Here's the scientific way they got the fish cranked on the powder.
13:10Researchers took 105 wild Atlantic salmon, exposed them to cocaine, then tracked their movements.
13:17And I believe I'm told we have a statement from the leading scientist.
13:23Say hello to my little fish!
13:27We got a great show for you tonight.
13:30My guests are Senator Elizabeth Warren and musician Michael Stipe.
13:37But when we come back, I reveal my big post-lead show plans.
13:41Join us.
14:06We'll be back.
14:09Hey everybody, welcome back.
14:10Say hello to Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine.
14:14I always love to hear from you.
14:16You don't call up enough.
14:19Louis.
14:19Steve!
14:23Louis, tonight...
14:25Stick around, my friends, because in just a few moments,
14:28we've got a powerhouse show.
14:29Senator Elizabeth Warren will be out here in just a while.
14:35And Michael Stipe will be out here to talk and original music.
14:39That's right. Original music.
14:40Thank you, Michael Stipe.
14:43Folks, before we get started, I have a quick but exciting announcement.
14:47Tuesday, May 5th, here on The Late Show, in his first interview
14:50from the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago,
14:53I will be sitting down with former President Barack Obama.
14:59And as we get close to the end, a lot of people are asking me,
15:02what's next for Stephen T. Colbert?
15:04Well, Internet rumors continue to run wild.
15:08I've heard a lot of theories.
15:09Everything from I'm moving to CNN, to I'm announcing a massive wildlife rescue program,
15:14to I'm running for President of the United States.
15:19Now, here's the thing.
15:27Here's the thing, I can tell you tonight, I can tell you,
15:30I can reveal right now, that all of those are partially true.
15:33Next year, I will be president of an animal sanctuary dedicated to caring for the rare blitzer wolf.
15:45It's a captive breeding program, nobody tell him.
15:50But tonight, I want to put all these rumors to rest and officially announce my next big TV project.
15:56It's an hour-long network procedural drama, torn straight from today's headlines.
16:01It's the gripping tale of two detectives, who are also uncles.
16:07How can they be both?
16:08It ain't easy, folks.
16:10Now, enjoy this exclusive First Look Trailer.
16:19Not so fast, Rico.
16:22Hold it right there, Chester.
16:31This city owes you boys a debt.
16:33Thank God there's nothing that distracts you from your jobs.
16:37Congrats, buddy.
16:41That's great!
16:43Oh, my God, I'm going to be an uncle!
16:46You're kidding me.
16:47I'm going to be an uncle, too!
16:49This might be the best day of my week.
16:51I guess my sister had a kid or something.
16:56That's it, I'm making the drop, we've got to go.
16:59Damn it!
17:00What?
17:01It's my nephew Jacob's piano recital today.
17:04Oh, my God, you've got to go?
17:06Nah, she's going to send me a link, but I've just got to remember to watch it sometime in the
17:09next week,
17:09so when I see him, I can honestly say he did a good job.
17:12There's just never enough time.
17:20Get out of here!
17:21It's time for you to be an uncle!
17:24I can't leave you!
17:28It's more important than a job.
17:30Your niece needs you.
17:32Wait, hold on.
17:33It's a diaper thing.
17:35I don't do diaper stuff.
17:36Yeah, that's not your job.
17:37You didn't sign up for that.
17:38Come on.
17:39That's it, scumbag!
17:41I have had it with you!
17:42Whoa, whoa, whoa!
17:42What are you doing?
17:43Look at his eyes!
17:45That's somebody's little nephew!
17:50Come on.
17:52Well, actually, both my parents were only children, so technically, I'm not.
18:04What are you trying to pull in here?
18:06I'm sorry.
18:08You're nobody's nephew!
18:10You're just a piece of trash!
18:12I'm here!
18:14Try to hang on, Mitch!
18:15The ambulance is on its way!
18:16If I don't make it...
18:17Hey!
18:18That's crazy talk!
18:19Just listen!
18:21I told my nephew, Jason, I'm sorry I gave him a book he already had.
18:26He should be able to return it!
18:31Wait, I thought you said his name was Jacob.
18:34Yeah, that sounds right.
18:36Yeah.
18:37Jacob.
18:38Yeah.
18:39Yeah.
18:40Yeah.
18:40Hiya!
18:40Uncle Cops!
18:45You got any cookies?
18:48Oh, no, wait, sorry, that's my buddy's kid.
18:50They're babies, they all look the same, you know?
18:55Thank you to my co-star, John C. Reilly.
18:58You can see John now on his national tour as Mr. Romantic.
19:03We'll be right back with Senator Elizabeth Warren.
19:27Welcome back, friends.
19:30Ladies and gentlemen,
19:31my first guest tonight is the senior senator from Massachusetts.
19:36Please welcome back to The Late Show, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
20:06Senator, it's good to see you again.
20:08Good to see you.
20:09We've had some really good conversations over the last 20 years.
20:14You came on the old show a couple times, too.
20:16Um, uh, listen, uh, it's no secret that Trump ran for president.
20:22One of his promises was no foreign wars.
20:26Yeah.
20:26Certainly no regime change wars.
20:29And here we are in one that doesn't seem to have an exit strategy.
20:34Right.
20:34And not much of an entrance strategy, either.
20:37Right.
20:38Uh, last year, when you were here, you said that your GOP colleagues, you know,
20:41in the hallways of the Senate, uh, quote,
20:42don't make eye contact anymore because they know he's wrong.
20:47How's the eye contact these days?
20:49Oh, man.
20:51Those guys, their eyes are just glued to the floor all the time.
20:55Yes.
20:55Because they truly do understand.
20:58The president and his team cannot explain why we went to war, what the strategy is in this war,
21:05what will constitute winning this war, how to get out of this war.
21:10And the number one thing they cannot explain is how this war is helping one single person
21:16in the United States of America.
21:17It is time for those Republicans to help the Democrats and put an end to this war right now.
21:24Right there.
21:25So what?
21:26Okay.
21:29It's true.
21:30Yep.
21:33Mm-hmm.
21:33I see.
21:35And at the very, at the very least, the troops who actually go prosecute
21:40this war on behalf of a commander in chief deserve the rationale.
21:43Yes.
21:44They understand why they're doing what they're doing.
21:46Um, how can Congress do anything?
21:49How can the Republicans help the Democrats in the Senate of the House do anything right now?
21:53Because the president doesn't seem to be asking for any approval.
21:55What, what, what could you do?
21:57It doesn't matter.
21:58We actually already have laws in place called the War Powers Act,
22:02where Congress can simply say you have to put a stop to this until Congress has a chance
22:07to come in and vote.
22:10Congress, according to the Constitution, is the only one that can declare war.
22:15But what, what can you do?
22:17I mean, hasn't he already, hasn't he already broken that rule?
22:20So, well, yes, there is that.
22:23But Congress does have the power to say stop.
22:28And we have now, the Democrats, have now put on the table, there's a, there's a law that's,
22:34I think of it kind of like, in case you have a president who has violated the Constitution,
22:39it's like the emergency brake in a car that has lost its brakes otherwise.
22:44And that's what we have voted on to get the Republicans to come in and say, cut it off.
22:49Cut off their funding, tell them to shut the whole thing down.
22:51And the Republicans have voted against that.
22:55That is, they have voted to continue this war one, two, three, four, five times so far.
23:03Okay.
23:03And we're just going to stay after them.
23:05We're just going to keep putting this bill forward and making them vote on it
23:09until finally somebody on that side grows a spine and does it.
23:15I read, I read you sent a letter to Secretary Hegseth.
23:19I did.
23:19About the war in Iran and saying, quote,
23:22his chaos and incompetence are a danger to both civilians and our troops.
23:26You asked him a series of questions.
23:27Have you heard anything back?
23:28No.
23:29No.
23:29Just silence.
23:30Just silence.
23:31You know.
23:31From him.
23:32Have you, you've talked to him before?
23:34No.
23:35You've never spoken to the Secretary of Defense?
23:37Only in the hearing.
23:38Oh, in the hearing.
23:38Okay.
23:38In the hearing.
23:39Because I said on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
23:41Sure.
23:41So, he's only lied to me in that context.
23:44I mean, at least directly.
23:45Not personally, just professionally.
23:47That's right.
23:48It's always been professional.
23:49Okay.
23:49On that.
23:50But that really is the point that our whole country, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are
23:58out there bombing halfway around the world in our names.
24:03It's not only that we've lost 13 American service members.
24:08We're spending a billion dollars a day overseas.
24:13But we are also killing people for nothing that we can explain about what we're trying
24:22to accomplish.
24:23And I know that they don't have a good rationale here.
24:27And here's how I know it.
24:28Because what you hear in the morning from Donald Trump is not what you hear from Donald Trump
24:33in the afternoon.
24:34And what you hear from Donald Trump in the morning doesn't match what you hear from Pete
24:37Hegseth in the middle of the morning who then tries to readjust to get in line with
24:42Donald Trump.
24:44It is chaos, but it's worse than chaos because it is costly to us and it is costly not just
24:54in money, not just in lives, it is costly to the reputation of the United States all around
24:59the world.
25:02We have to take a quick break.
25:04Right back with more.
25:05Elizabeth Warren, everybody.
25:06Sing her out.
25:14Hey, everybody.
25:16It's Senator Elizabeth Warren, the great state of Massachusetts.
25:21I'm going to turn to the Fed for a second here.
25:23You went, you got some attention this week for an exchange you had with the Fed chair nominee.
25:28What is his name?
25:29Kevin Warsh is his name.
25:31Okay.
25:32Trump said that interest rates will drop if Warsh is in there, which sounds like it's the
25:39fix is in.
25:40The Fed needs to be an independent agency.
25:42What is that?
25:42How is it an independent agency?
25:44It's both governmental and it's freelance?
25:46No, so here's the point.
25:50We set up the Fed, I mean, long ago.
25:52People set up the Fed and the idea was you'd hire a bunch of people who will make decisions
25:58based on the numbers.
26:00They'll look at how much employment there is.
26:02They'll look at the direction inflation is going.
26:04They'll look at the impact of tariffs all around the world.
26:07And then they'll do their best to set monetary policy in the right place, like what the interest
26:13rate is going to be.
26:14That's what's called an independent Fed.
26:17And why does it matter to you?
26:18Because it means they're making the decisions on the numbers.
26:22You might agree, you might disagree, but they're not doing crazy things.
26:26What Donald Trump wants to do is make it a political Fed completely controlled by Donald
26:32Trump.
26:32And the risk here is we're running six months into an election in which Donald Trump is
26:38in real trouble on the economy.
26:40And so his last card to try to play is can he get the Fed in here, get him to
26:46do something
26:46crazy, get him to blow things up and then say the problem is over there and hope he can
26:52skate on through the election.
26:55But wouldn't he have to say the problem is over there with the guy I just appointed?
26:58Oh, he doesn't have to worry about that.
27:00The point for Donald Trump is to get control over the Fed.
27:07That's the difference that we're talking about.
27:09And what I'm concerned about is that the guy he has nominated, he has said, I will only name
27:15somebody who will do exactly what I want.
27:16In other words, he will only name a sock puppet to run the Fed.
27:22So we had this hearing on Tuesday and I asked this guy, show me that you are independent.
27:30Because he said, this is what he said to me.
27:32He said in a meeting with me, I said, how am I going to know you're going to be independent?
27:36Because the president said he's not going to name anyone who will be independent.
27:39He said, I'm a tough guy.
27:41That's literally his words.
27:43I'm a tough guy.
27:45I can stand up to Donald Trump.
27:48So I said, okay, let's test that.
27:54And so I said to him in the hearing, you said you could stand up to Donald Trump.
27:59Just look at me right now in front of all these people.
28:02Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?
28:12And what did he say?
28:13Mr. Tough Guy didn't have anything to say.
28:16Wow.
28:16So I went to another one.
28:17I said, tell me just one little time that you disagreed with Donald Trump.
28:24Tell me just a little thing maybe that he was wrong on.
28:28Like, you know, whether or not tariffs are never paid for by American consumers.
28:33Just tell me one little thing.
28:34And again, can't say anything.
28:37So I've got to say, I had said going into this, I'm very concerned that he's going to be a
28:41sock puppet.
28:42I listened to his answers.
28:44And if the sock fits.
28:48So, lovely to see you again.
28:53Senator Elizabeth Warren, everybody.
28:55We'll be right back with Michael Snythe.
29:08Hey, everybody.
29:10Welcome back.
29:11Ladies and gentlemen, my next guest.
29:14He's a Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who is the lead singer of R.A.M.
29:20Please welcome back to The Late Show, Michael Snythe.
29:44There you go.
29:45Hey, Michael.
29:45Nice to see you again.
29:46Thank you for having me on.
29:47I love the beard.
29:48Yeah, how about...
29:49Nicely done.
29:50It just happened.
29:52It just...
29:52Really?
29:53Well...
29:53You just woke up one morning?
29:54There it was.
29:55Yeah.
29:56You look a little bit like a sea captain.
29:57You ever thought of putting on, like, a captain's hat and getting a little more respect?
30:01I used to...
30:05I did, though, I'm writing the final lyrics for my first ever solo album.
30:14And...
30:15That's the big news.
30:16That's big news.
30:17Bury the lead.
30:19One of the songs is the sound of a tree hearing itself for the first time through MIDI.
30:27It's this confusing situation.
30:29A tree hearing itself for the first time.
30:31My friend recorded a tree in my backyard in Georgia and played it back to itself.
30:36And so it sounds like Daft Punk.
30:39But I'm putting a sea shanty.
30:42And I know that you like sea shanty.
30:43I love sea shanty.
30:44What shanty are we talking here?
30:45It's the most familiar that everyone knows.
30:48You know, what do you do with the drunken sailor?
30:51What do you do with the drunken sailor?
30:53What do you do with the drunken sailor?
30:55Her eye in the morning.
30:56I did write this, a very special lyric, because I misheard what I thought was part of the original song.
31:04Yes.
31:05Tie him to the mast and shave his belly.
31:08Tie him to the mast and shave his belly.
31:10And then my part comes in, which is...
31:13Duct tape, donkey ears, jelly wellies, early in the morning.
31:19You heard duct tape, donkey ears, jelly wellies.
31:25Uh-huh.
31:26I really don't...
31:28Do you not have Google?
31:33And those aren't the lyrics one assumes.
31:35Those are the lyrics that are going to win.
31:36If it actually makes it into the tree song, those are the lyrics that are going to win.
31:39I like it.
31:40I like it.
31:41You and...
31:42It's been since 2020 you were on here, and since the last time you were on here, you and your
31:46bandmates were inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2024.
31:50I've been a couple of times.
31:51It's a great night.
31:52It's a wonderful event.
31:54Here you are.
31:55Here you guys are right.
31:56Cha.
31:57There you are.
31:59Reunited onstage for the first time in 15 years.
32:01How did it feel to be up there making music together?
32:04It was actually more than 15 years, but we, you know, Bill Berry came for it, and we performed Losing
32:09My Religion acoustic.
32:12And, you know, I love, I mean, I'm just very lucky that we are best friends.
32:18You know, we split the band up in 2011.
32:21We remain best friends.
32:22We have dinners with each other.
32:23We text each other all the time.
32:25When we're working on projects, we invite each other to participate.
32:29They're friends for life and my best friends, and so it's, I'm really honored to have that, you know.
32:36Michael Shannon.
32:40Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducey have an R.E.M. tribute band.
32:44I've talked to Michael about it on the show before, and I know you've gone to a show.
32:48Yeah, yeah.
32:48Because here you are on stage.
32:51What, what is it like to be there in the audience while your songs are being covered on stage?
33:00It's, I'm, I'm, I'm like the biggest fan of those guys doing that because I've never gotten to hear those
33:06songs performed live.
33:08Because I was always in, I was always in the middle of it.
33:10Sure, sure.
33:10I was in, I was singing.
33:12Yeah.
33:12You know, the song, the songs are like, they're like in my DNA.
33:16So I'm hearing a part of me thrown back, but interpreted by someone who I really admire and love, Michael
33:22Shannon and Jason.
33:24They're incredible guys.
33:24They were playing in Athens and all of y'all showed up.
33:27Did that freak them out?
33:28Totally.
33:29I mean, it freaked, it freaked me out.
33:31I, I, I had, I had told Michael that I wanted to jump up for the song Pretty Persuasion, which
33:37I wrote when I was 22.
33:38And it was about, um, basically about trans rights, what we would now call trans rights.
33:43But I, I wanted to do it for that.
33:48And so I was backstage and I kind of got like a little freaked out.
33:51And Peter Buck had been jumping up with them from, he loves to play guitar.
33:55So he was up for several songs.
33:56And he said, just go, just get up there, just do it.
33:59So I was like, okay, Peter.
34:01So I jumped up and then Mike Mills was side of stage and he jumped up to sing background.
34:05And about halfway through the song, I heard a tambourine over my right shoulder and I turned around and Bill
34:11Barry was standing there.
34:13So we, we reunited for half a song.
34:16That moment right there.
34:18That's fantastic.
34:21There are a lot of biopics out there of musicians.
34:24Would you want a biopic about you guys?
34:28Is there one?
34:29No, there isn't.
34:30No.
34:31Would you, who would you want to play you?
34:33That's such a good question.
34:34Yeah.
34:34Someone really hot.
34:36And, um.
34:39Who would it be?
34:41Who would it be?
34:42Who would it be?
34:42With or without the beard?
34:43With the beard, it's got to be David Cross.
34:45Without the beard, we could go a little hotter.
34:48David Cross?
34:49Without the beard.
34:50Well, he's got a beard very much like yours.
34:51Okay.
34:52He shaved his head as well right now.
34:53They can do beards.
34:54They can do beards.
34:54What would you want?
34:56Would you like just try to have Chalamet take another stab at it?
34:58No.
35:00Yeah?
35:00I don't know who.
35:02I really.
35:03J.K. Simmons.
35:05But young.
35:06Young's type.
35:07We're talking young's type.
35:08Like with the black makeup across the face and stuff like that.
35:10That blue band.
35:12That's type.
35:12Maybe Billie Eilish could do it.
35:16She'd be good.
35:17Guy got similar eyes.
35:18You guys got similar blue eyes there.
35:20Yeah.
35:20Yeah.
35:21Have you spent much time talking to her?
35:22She held a door open for me once at a restaurant in Manhattan.
35:25And I don't know if she knew who I was.
35:27She's a very, she's incredibly polite and sweet.
35:30But I didn't know who she was until she was down the street.
35:32Yeah.
35:34Want me to introduce you guys?
35:36Yeah, I would love to meet her brother, Phineas.
35:38Billy?
35:39That's Michael Stipe.
35:42That's what he looks like.
35:44It's not David Cross.
35:48I do want to tell you that as a gift to you and to the show,
35:54the song that we're performing tonight
35:56is the first time it's ever been played.
35:58And I'm so pleased to do it with, that's it, yeah.
36:02Yeah, with the band tonight.
36:04With the band.
36:04And then, is this the album cover?
36:08Here, it says, it says,
36:09from the upcoming incredible album, Michael Stipe,
36:12song title, Rest of Ever,
36:15as seen on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,
36:188, April 23rd, 1926.
36:22Beautiful.
36:24My record is coming out at the end of the year,
36:26and that's an exclusive, nobody knows that yet.
36:28So I'm announcing it now.
36:29My record's coming out, my first ever solo record,
36:31and I'm really pleased about that.
36:32But I made a, I made a t-shirt for you.
36:34You made that, you made that thing into a t-shirt.
36:40And, it's not just for me.
36:43It's not just for you.
36:43Tell them who, what?
36:44I wanted, I wanted to honor,
36:47I wanted to honor the entire staff and crew of The Late Show,
36:50and so I made 215 t-shirts.
36:53And here they are.
37:06Mr. Camera Guy.
37:07There you go.
37:09There you go.
37:16Thank you, Michael.
37:16Thank you for having me.
37:17That's so generous.
37:18Stick around for a performance by Michael Stipe, everybody.
37:28And now, performing his new unreleased song,
37:31The Rest of Ever, with Lewis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine.
37:35Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Stipe.
37:45I love you.
37:48Oh, I love you madly.
37:55I love you more than I can say.
38:05I need you, oh, I need you badly.
38:14I need you more and more each day.
38:23Tell me that you will love me eternally.
38:29Oh, I want you for the rest of ever.
38:43If I could only talk to time.
38:52We speak of all eternal futures.
39:02I would ask if you are forever mine.
39:11Tell me that you will love me eternally.
39:41Please be ever with me
39:43Through eternity
39:45Forever mine
39:47Forever mine
39:50Just be ever with me
39:52Through eternity
39:55Forever mine
39:57Forever mine
40:05Ever mine
40:06Ever mine
40:07Ever mine
40:11Ever mine
40:13Ever mine
40:15Ever mine
40:23Michael Stipe, everybody!
40:26Good night!
40:27Good night!
40:27Good night!
40:33Ah!
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