Colbert on Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit: ‘The Defense Department Has Upgraded Its Readiness to DEF CON Mee-Maw’ (Video)

Stephen Colbert where he has been the bandleader for seven seasons. Batiste was brought to the attention of an international audience back in April after the singer-songwriter won five Grammys.

The FBI descending on former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property, searching it and removing at least a dozen boxes on Monday, continued to fascinate “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during his second-to-last show of the week.On Thursday, Colbert once again dove into the topic that has been featured in at least three of his monologues so far.“As we continue to learn more details about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, it does not look good for former president Velveeta Voldemort,” Colbert said, opening his show with his latest nickname for Trump.“The former president and his minions have tried to play the victim card here saying, ‘Why he’s just a simple country club owner, and that this whole investigation is a nothing burger,’” Colbert said, doing a slightly Southern accent. “But it’s beginning to look like the investigation is a ‘Something Royale with Cheese.’ Now I’m not gonna get my hopes up.

Jon Batiste has bid farewell to -- as bandleader, that is.  The GRAMMY winner has stepped down from his musical role on the late-night show, host Stephen Colbert confirmed on Thursday's show. «Jon has decided to leave the show,» Colbert said. «It’s for all the best reasons, including to continue sharing his art with the world.»While it was the host's intention to give him an in-person send-off, Colbert noted Batiste is not in town. «We have been so lucky to have a front-row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for the past seven years,» Colbert said.  «Will we miss him here? Yeahhhh,» he added, imitating the musician. Colbert sweetly added, «We’re happy for you, Jon, and I can’t wait to have you back on as guest with your next hit record.

announced the news on his chat show yesterday, also revealing to his audience that Louis Cato will be taking over as the new bandleader.Cato has subbed for Batiste in the past and is now the permanent boss of the new Louis Cato and the Late Show Band. “Jon has decided to leave the show,” the comedian said on the show Thursday. “But it’s for all the best reasons, including to continue sharing his art with the world.”He continued: “We have been so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s incredible talent for the past seven years.”“But we’re happy for you, Jon, and I can’t wait to have you back on as a guest with your next hit record.

Jon Batiste is saying goodbye to “The Late Show”.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAcademy and Grammy Award-winning artist Jon Batiste is leaving “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after seven seasons, Colbert announced Thursday night on the show. He’s exiting to “pursue personal and professional interests.” Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer, will take over on a permanent basis — and the Colbert’s band, which previously had been called “Stay Human” under Batiste’s direction, will be renamed “The Late Show Band.”Cato will take over permanently when the show returns for its eighth season on Tuesday, Sept.

The world depicted on Apple TV+’s hit series “Severance” is already pretty bleak, but as it turns out, it could be even bleaker — all you need is the biggest jerk version of Stephen Colbert dropped into the madness.Colbert proved this on Thursday’s episode of “The Late Show” with a fun clip in which he becomes an employee of Lumen and we see what his workplace version is like. (The frame joke is that he actually did join the show, but all his scenes were cut, in case you’re curious.)Of course you know the premise, but for those who don’t, on “Severance,” the company Lumen has devised a procedure that allows people to literally separate their work and home lives completely.

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Strictly Come Dancing pro dancer Karen Hauer was seen leaving rehearsals ahead of the 2022 series, sporting a brand new hairstyle.The Venezuelan dancer, 40, usually sports a cropped pixie cut but was seen wearing her hair in longer curls as she left a gruelling dance rehearsal ahead of the BBC series show returning next month. Karen opted for a casual look, wearing her new hairstyle with gym shorts and a crop top, pairing her look with a large, red satchel bag and a pair of white trainers.

China has set an August 19 release date for Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru. This will be the first major tentpole from Hollywood to hit the market since Universal’s own Jurassic World Dominion which has grossed $157.4M there through Sunday and during an extended nine-week run; it is the biggest studio import of 2022.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChinese sci-fi comedy “Moon Man” held station at the top of the mainland China box office, albeit at a lower orbit. After ten days in cinemas its cumulative total is a fraction of a degree short of $300 million, and it operated at a higher elevation than new launch sci-fi actioner “Warriors of Future.”The strong figures came despite some cinemas remaining closed in key cities and capacity limitations remaining in place in others. Hainan Island went into lockdown over the weekend as a cluster of COVID cases emerged.

by announcing she’s agreed to support the bill. Her sticking point had been a part of the bill that would have made minor changes to the so-called “carried interest loophole,” a tax law quirk that allows executives at private equity firms and hedge funds to pay lower taxes than their employees. She supports the loophole and demanded that provision be removed from the bill.Interestingly, Sinema has made no public statements explaining her demand.

Stephen Colbert took aim at a regular punching bag of his – Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz – when he broke down the political race in the state on Thursday night’s “The Late Show.”After explaining the matchup on the Governor side of things, the “Late Show” host turned his attention to the fight between Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman who is facing off with Dr. Oz in the November election for senator.“Polls show Fetterman leading by double digits, which might be because Pennsylvanians want to have a Senator who is actually from Pennsylvania,” Colbert joked.“Dr.

K.J. Yossman Bryan Cranston, Blair Underwood and Jennifer Morrison will lead the jury for this year’s Hollyshorts Film Festival.They will be joined by Stephanie Lang, Joanna Quinn, David Dastmalchian, Adaku Ononogbo and Jeremy Swift.Set to open Aug. 11 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and virtually through the BITPIX platform, the festival will screen a number of short films including Steve McQueen’s prostate cancer documentary “Embarrassed,” starring Idris Elba, Ben Proudfoot’s “Mink!” about the first woman of color elected to the U.S.

Johnny Depp has once again created an eccentric sea-loving character.

Before the prolonged agony of his multimillion dollar defamation trial with ex Amber Heard, Johnny Depp had some fun doing what he does best: creating a delightfully eccentric character.