Jimmy Kimmel may have won the veepstakes, but Stephen Colbert is set to take home the big prize.
CBS has announced that Kamala Harris will guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this Tuesday for her first late-night talk show appearance since accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president.
Colbert will be interrupting his own planned week-long break to tape the new episode with Harris Tuesday.
The Vice President’s visit with Colbert will take place just a night after her running mate Tim Walz makes his late-night debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and a little over 24 hours after both Harris and Walz are scheduled to appear in a special Monday night edition of 60 Minutes–also on CBS.
Late-night bookers have no doubt been working overtime trying to book the two candidates, but where they’ve landed (and when) would seem to have ultimately come down to where they’re likely to reach the most viewers.
In the second quarter of this year, Colbert drew an average 2.5 million viewers nightly per Nielsen live-plus-seven-day data. Kimmel came in at #2 with 1.9 million viewers, but sees a huge bump Monday nights during football season thanks to his lead-in, Monday Night Football.
Harris’ Tuesday night interview with Colbert will mark her seventh appearance on The Late Show. Her first visit to the show was on April 19, 2018, and her most recent visit was March 15, 2023.
She’s guested with Seth Meyers five times, Jimmy Kimmel three times, and with Jimmy Fallon and The Daily Show two times each.
Harris’ opponent, Donald Trump, isn’t likely to appear on any of the traditional late-night shows this election cycle. (Colbert, for one, has said he wouldn’t have him.) But Trump did recently join the panel on Gutfeld!, drawing record ratings for the Fox News late-night show.
As for J.D. Vance, he’s never appeared on a late-night show since entering politics, although he did visit with Seth Meyers in 2017 back when he was a book author and a self-professed “Never Trumper.”
Kamala Harris’ interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show will air Tuesday October 8th at 11:35pm ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+.
