NEW YORK (AP) – Stephen Colbert says he came awfully close to not making his much-ballyhooed debut on “The Late Show” this week.
Colbert, opening his second program on Wednesday night, said that a combination of an overstuffed show that needed to be edited and a technical glitch temporarily prevented producers from sending the finished product to the network.
“At 11:20 – and this actually happened – no one in the building could give me a guarantee that the show was going to be on the air,” he said. The show airs at 11:35 p.m. EDT.
“You could imagine how exciting that was for all of us, after CBS had plastered my face on every flat surface on the planet,” he said.
The problems were corrected just in time.