Colbert Reveals How His Show Almost Ended Before It Began

The Late Show/CBS/YouTube Three weeks before Stephen Colbert’s Late Show will air its final episode, the host revealed that he feared being fired at the very beginning. Colbert told the story of how the show’s first episode in 2015 almost didn’t air in Q&A session with his live audience. “I don’t see them giving us a second show,” Colbert recalled thinking, as he and the show’s editors couldn’t get the finished episode sent to the network for broadcast, just minutes before their scheduled airtime. “We didn’t really know what we were doing in terms of producing,” he said. “We knew our comedy; we just didn’t know how to produce the show yet. And it was not the same as Colbert Report —much bigger, much more complicated,” he said, referring to his previous talk show on Comedy Central. “You know, we didn’t realize how much more complicated it would be,” he prefaced. When it came time to get the first-ever episode on the airwaves, the show’s team ran into a huge problem that they had very little time to fix. “The show will not export, meaning it won’t come out of the Avid editing machine, and it will not go.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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