The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will welcome at least one former POTUS before signing off May 21.
Stephen Colbert announced at the show’s Thursday evening taping that Barack Obama will sit down for an interview Tuesday, May 5.
“I have a quick but exciting announcement,” Colbert tells the crowd in an advance clip from tonight’s episode (below). “Tuesday, May 5, here on The Late Show, in his first interview from the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, I will be sitting down with former President Barack Obama.”
The Barack Obama Presidential Center is Obama’s combination presidential library, museum, and education project, built in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago. It’s scheduled to open to the public June 19, one day after its official dedication ceremony.
May 5 will mark Obama’s fifth appearance on Colbert’s Late Show. As president, he first guested—with wife/First Lady Michelle Obama—in a special post-Super Bowl episode that aired live in February 2016. He then appeared in a special segment that October, followed by a November 2020 interview that aired across two nights.
As candidate and then president, Obama also appeared on The Colbert Report a total of three times.
The Late Show welcomes guests Senator Elizabeth Warren and musician Michael Stipe tonight, before embarking on its final one-week break. It will return May 5 to kick off its last three weeks of episodes.
