BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — With Donald Trump’s presidential bid generating news as well as comedy gold, Stephen Colbert is itching to get his share of the laughs once he returns to the air Sept. 8 as host of CBS’ “The Late Show.”
“Every night I light a candle that he stays in the race until Sept. 8,” Colbert says. “But I also hope that nobody gets that candle too close to his hair.”
In the meantime, off the air and with no venue, “I’m just dry-Trumping,” Colbert added, then, impressed with his pun, stopped to tweet it from the stage as he met with TV critics on Monday.
Other things he said during this session: George Clooney will guest on opening night, with Kendrick Lamar (who performed on the final “Colbert Report” last fall) his first musical guest.
* Like Stephen Colbert, the right-wing blowhard he played for 11 years on “The Colbert Report,” the real-life Stephen Colbert is honestly afraid of bears: “If something’s gone bad in my life, I dream about bears.”