Stephen Colbert erinnert sich an den Moment, in dem er herausgefunden hat, dass „The Late Show“ abgesagt wurde und die Nachrichten an seine Mitarbeiter lieferte: „Ich hatte durch mein Hemd schwitzen“.

> “She said, ‘Are you going to tell the staff?’” Colbert recalled. “I said, ‘I don’t know. Maybe I will tell them after the summer break.’ She said, ‘You are going to tell them tomorrow.’ I said, ‘I don’t think so.’ She said, ‘I am coming to work with you tomorrow because I think you are telling your staff.’ I get up in the elevator. I had sweat through my shirt. I didn’t want to know anything my staff didn’t know.”

> “I was so nervous about doing it,” Colbert explained. “There was nothing on the prompter. I fucked up twice. I had to restart, and the audience thought it was a bit. They started going, ‘You can do it. Come on Steve. You can do it.’ I always messed up on the sentence that told them what was happening. I got to the sentence that told them what was happening, and they didn’t laugh. They didn’t laugh. That is it. That is how I did it.”