'Late Show' Charity Auction Adds Topless 'Daily Show' Cast Photo

During Wednesday’s episode of CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert , guest Steve Carell joined his onetime Daily Show colleague in hosting a new edition of “Late Show Home Shopping”—following in the footsteps of John Oliver, and Paul Rudd before him.

This farewell season’s “Late Show Home Shopping” segments have served to get the word out about host Stephen Colbert’s “clearance sale”/charity auction, where proceeds benefit chef José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen.

With Carell at his side, Colbert announced that the latest lot of items up for bid includes the set of “little decorative water towers” that have sat on the bookshelves behind the guest chairs, plus a replica of Aragorn’s sword Andúril aka The Flame of the West, from the Lord of the Ring films. (Colbert has dibs on the original prop, which was gifted to him by Viggo Mortensen on The Colbert Report. “That sword is being buried with me, along with my interns,” he explained.)

Carell tried to up the ante by donating a little something “from the set of my long-running TV show,” The Office—except, “I didn’t save anything.” So, rather than auction off a generic ream of printer paper he grabbed backstage at The Late Show, Carell put forth a “topless photo” of him, Colbert and Jon Stewart circa The Daily Show, framed and autographed by each of the men.

Watch the full segment above; the link to review and bid on items can be found here.

The previous lot added to the terminal talk show’s “clearance sale” brought in nearly $90,000 worth of bids, with several items (including the guest chair, and a chance to raid the Late Show prop closet for 60 seconds) fetching five-figure price tags.

Colbert debuted the charity auction in December, netting over $175,000 in bids across the first 13 items. That round—which saw his COVID-era desk go for $14,800, and two VIP tickets to the Late Show finale sell for $111,100—resulted in a total payout of $169,727.99 to World Central Kitchen.

A second leg of the auction brought in close to $40,000 more.

A third set of items Colbert announced in late January on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers—a stolen rug from Capitol Hill and several Late Night cue cards—fetched nearly $14,500 total.