Emmy Awards 2021 Intro for September 20, 2021 Dear Gossips, So… the Emmys. Duana, Sarah, and I have the Emmys covered. And I know I should be leading off in this space with something Emmys-related but I admit my attention is split, because today in Canada it’s our federal election which means I’m here to tell By Lainey • Sep 20, 2021 07:30 am
Music Intro for October 21, 2020 Dear Gossips, The thing that broke me this morning was what broke Stephen Colbert: Dolly Parton’s singing. It’s the first clip I watched when I got up. Here it is if you haven’t yet seen it: .@DollyParton sings “Bury Me Beneath The Willow” and I think somebody By Lainey • Oct 21, 2020 08:51 am
Stephen Colbert Lady Gaga Unites Late Night Jimmy Fallon called Lady Gaga last week but she wasn’t ready to make her announcement, promising that they’d be ready to roll with it today. She’s curating a television special, in collaboration with Global Citizen and the World Health Organisation “to celebrate and encourage the power of By Lainey • Apr 07, 2020 01:05 pm
TV Updates Is Colbert wasting Hannah Gadsby’s time? Hannah Gadsby had one of the biggest and best breakout moments of 2018 with her searing Netflix special, Nanette. That show, set up as a kind of two weeks’ notice to her comedy career, resulted in international acclaim, and she is now performing a new show, Douglas, off-Broadway (it will By Sarah • Aug 07, 2019 11:31 am
Dumbass Gwyneth & Colbert Stephen Colbert, over the years, has mocked Gwyneth Paltrow and goop for their batsh-t recommendations and promoting of fake science. Have you seen his Covetton House features? Basically he dresses up as a poncy asshole and recommends things like “scrotal dry cleaning” and “nacho cheese soaks”. Gwyneth was his guest By Lainey • Jan 26, 2018 10:15 am
Emmy Awards 2017 Jackie Hoffman and the Emmys 2017 About two hours into the Emmys last night, Duana wrote this to Kathleen and me on our group chat: “You guys. I’m not bored OR mad. What’s wrong?” It was a good show, non? The sketches were good. The presenters were good. It felt FUN. And, as Duana By Lainey • Sep 18, 2017 03:06 am
Show Your Work Podcast Show Your Work: Prince William – laziness or self-preservation? And how can marriage “work” in Hollywood? I told Duana at the top of this week’s episode of Show Your Work that I never thought that we’d be kicking off one of our shows with Prince William. But here we are, doing a podcast about Work, so how can we not talk about the future By Lainey • Mar 20, 2017 04:13 pm
TV Updates Late Night Boy Sh*t As we are so fond of saying around here, boy sh*t is the best sh*t and today we’ve been given a helping of late night talk show host boy sh*t. If you haven’t heard, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has been steadily gaining ground By Sarah • Mar 08, 2017 11:58 am
Celebrity Social Media Smutty Social Media, February 15, 2017 As Lainey pointed out yesterday, Tom Hiddleston is kind of sad. On Twitter, “Tom Hiddleston Bolognese” has become a thing, thanks to the writer of the story (Taffy Brodesser-Akner) posting the recipe. And he hasn’t been retweeting or liking any of the photos people are putting up. Even though By Maria • Feb 15, 2017 02:59 pm
TV Updates Stephen Colbert is coming on strong Last month I wrote about Stephen Colbert’s struggle to adapt to the mainstream on The Late Show, and at that time I said, “Colbert is SO talented, and there’s no question he can hold down The Late Show—if The Late Show will just let him be Stephen By Sarah • Jul 28, 2016 11:31 am
Stephen Colbert Is Stephen Colbert finished at The Late Show? Stephen Colbert’s tenure on The Late Show has been rocky. He has struggled to translate his fake news popularity to a more straightforward late night format, and ratings haven’t been awesome. But more importantly, Colbert struggles to create the kind of viral content networks love to see blowing By Sarah • Jun 10, 2016 11:42 am
Douchebags Casey Affleck went Joaquin Phoenix on Stephen Colbert I texted Lainey the other night after seeing Casey Affleck’s new movie, Triple 9, that I think he might have A Moment coming. She agreed, but then he went on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to promote the movie and had an awkward interview, and she was like, maybe By Sarah • Feb 24, 2016 09:29 am
Celebrity Lifestyle Brands Gwyneth Gets It The Late Show with Stephen Colbert launched in early September. Arguably, the first bit to go viral is his satirical announcement of a men’s lifestyle brand in the vein of Preserve, Draper James and Goop. It feels a little closer to The Colbert Report in tone because in this By Maria • Sep 25, 2015 11:56 am
BFFs Colbert goes with Scarjo Big week for Colbert. He kicked it off with George Clooney – who had nothing to promote – on Tuesday and last night, while Fallon and The Tonight Show had Justin Timberlake and yet another History of Rap, Colbert’s big guest was Scarlett Johansson, who also has nothing to promote. Week By Lainey • Sep 10, 2015 10:35 am
TV Updates Colbert Returns Last night Stephen Colbert came back to late night television, making his debut as the new host of The Late Show. So how did it go? How was the first night of the “real” Stephen Colbert on TV? Pretty good. It was a solid first show, given that this is By Sarah • Sep 09, 2015 01:59 pm
Stephen Colbert Intro for August 11, 2015 Dear Gossips, Did you think it was possible that with every new day, Ben Affleck looks more and more the fool? Oh yeah. It doesn’t stop. Yesterday was supposed to be a good news day too. Only that’s now been overshadowed by a new round of nanny exploits. By Lainey • Aug 11, 2015 09:31 am
