The Ed Sullivan Theater has reopened its doors for the first time in fifteen months as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert show is back and in front of a live studio audience!
With a standing ovation that lasted 90 seconds with a full crowd chanting “Stephen, Stephen Stephen,” this iconic late-night talk show had fans more than pleased as Colbert made his grand entry to begin the episode.
“So how ya been?” Colbert yelled to a crowd of 420 vaccinated New Yorkers. With masks barely in sight, the audience responded with a roar of laughter that made us feel like we were back in 2019.
TONIGHT: The words we've been waiting 15 months to hear… "Welcome to THE Late Show, I am your host Stephen Colbert." #LSSCYouThere pic.twitter.com/BSbZ1gRkLx
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) June 15, 2021
For the last fifteen months, Colbert taped 213 episodes without a live studio audience and conducted most of his celebrity interviews with guests over Zoom. Last week, the TV host shared his excitement for the return of live shows in a statement, saying “I’m like a dog who’s got his head out the window and can smell that we’re near the farm. I’m ready to be out of the cage.”
The return of a fully-packed studio gives us clarity that we are seeing light at the end of the Coronavirus tunnel and that New York City is slowly making its return to normalcy.
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Check out Stephen’s full opening monologue below.
