Nearly a month after The Late Show with Stephen Colbert signed off CBS, the show’s official eBay store is still finding new ways to send pieces of the Ed Sullivan Theater out into the world—and raise money for some of Stephen Colbert’s favorite nonprofits.
Headlining the show’s latest auction wave are two of the show’s blue guest chairs—which hosted thousands of interviews during Colbert’s 11-season CBS run.
Apparently, The Late Show had quite a few of them. Two were destroyed when Colbert and David Letterman threw them off the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater in the closing days of the show, another sold at auction earlier this year, and another pair was donated—along with Colbert’s own chair and desk—to Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications.
Beyond the guest chairs, the new auction includes several deeply Colbertian artifacts from the show’s prop and costume archives.
Among them: Colbert’s stuffed pet “Caligula,” seen in the show’s “Hungry for Power Games” segments; Colbert’s vest from his USO trip to Greenland; the carpet used during the show’s recurring “Big Furry Hat” segments; and Colbert’s signed jacket from “Brain Fight with Tuck Buckford,” the Late Show bit built around his Alex Jones-style blowhard alter ego.
The new listings, which also include three of Colbert’s neckties and one of his suits, continue a charity-auction run that began during the show’s final six months, when proceeds from Late Show memorabilia auctions and related sales raised nearly $2.5 million for World Central Kitchen.
Since the show’s end, additional auctions have continued to benefit World Central Kitchen, along with Monroe Community Media and MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s nonprofit arm.
This time, net proceeds from the sale of the items will support the Montclair Film Festival. Colbert’s wife, Evie McGee Colbert, recently stepped down as president of the New Jersey arts organization’s Board of Trustees, though she will continue with the nonprofit as president emeritus and a member of its executive committee.
All available memorabilia pieces are up for bid at ColbertLateShow.com/eBay.
