Stephen and Evie Colbert Are Cooking Up Some Live Events to Celebrate Their New Cookbook

Stephen and Evie Colbert are bringing a taste of their home life to the two cities they call home.

The couple co-authored the upcoming cookbook Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves, due out September 17 from Celadon Books. To promote the title, The Late Show host and his wife will hold a pair of live Q&As about the book in New York City and Charleston—“two cities that are very special to us,” they wrote in an Instagram announcement.

“We can’t wait to sit down with you all and share stories and memories from our home kitchen,” the Colberts added.

The project came together during the pandemic, when cooking family dinners became a “major source of entertainment” for the Colberts. The book contains recipes, photos, and dialogue from the husband and wife.

“Hopefully reading this book and cooking these recipes will feel like hanging out with us at home,” the duo say of the cookbook in press materials. “We basically live in the kitchen anyway.”

On Sunday, September 22, the pair will be at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, the city where they both grew up. “An Afternoon with Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert” will find them in conversation with a special guest who is yet to be announced.

They’ll then take the show to The Late Show’s home city, hosting an evening event on Friday, October 4, at New York City’s Town Hall. (The Town Hall listing doesn’t specify whether that event will include a special guest.)

All ticket purchases include a copy of Does This Taste Funny? from Charleston’s Buxton Books and New York City’s famed Strand Book Store.

Evie is a familiar face to Late Show viewers. She has appeared on the show numerous times—often for Colbert’s recurring greeting card-based “First Drafts” segment—and she helped Stephen produce the show from their home during the pandemic-era A Late Show days.

The couple married in 1993 and celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary on The Late Show last year. (Colbert has told the story of how the pair met to his studio audience, and it’s quite the tale.)

Tickets for the Charleston event go on sale Friday, July 26 at 11 a.m. ET and can be purchased at this link; tickets for the New York City book release are available the same day beginning at 12 p.m. ET here.