The Colbert Countdown continues.
CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will kick off its second-to-last week of episodes Monday, inching ever closer to the 33-year-old franchise’s Thursday, May 21, series finale.
On Monday, May 11, Colbert will, as first reported by LateNighter, reunite the hosts of Strike Force Five podcast launched during 2023 writers strike—Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver. That night will also feature a special Broadway-themed performance by stage vets Annaleigh Ashford, Christopher Jackson, Bernadette Peters, Ben Platt, and Patrick Wilson.
Tuesday, May 12, The Ed Sullivan Theater welcomes Colbert’s seven-time Late Show guest Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who voices a Shetland sheep in the animated mystery comedy The Sheep Detectives (out this Friday). Pedro Pascal will also stop by that night, ahead of the May 22 premiere of Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu, the big-screen follow-up to Disney+’s The Mandalorian series.
On Wednesday, May 13, Tom Hanks will appear for an 18th time, ahead of the June 19 release of Toy Story 5, in which he again voices Woody the pull-string cowboy doll. We’ll also get former President Barack Obama’s answers to “The Colbert Questionert,” procured during Colbert’s recent visit to Chicago for the in-depth sit-down that aired earlier this week.
Closing out the week of new episodes, Thursday, May 14, will bring no less than original franchise front man David Letterman (as detailed here), plus a musical performance by The Strokes.
The current week’s run of Late Show episodes wraps tonight at 11:35 pm. ET with guest John Krasinski, who is making rounds for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War, a Prime Video spinoff movie streaming May 20. We’ll also get a final “Kids Pitch” installment featuring appearances by Jenny Slate, Liam Neeson, John Oliver, The Pitt‘s Isa Briones and Taylor Dearden, and The Avett Brothers.
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