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Like the NFL and its broadcast partners, late night show hosts could not resist going all-in on everything Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce related when the returned from a five-month strike-related lay-off on Monday night (Oct. 2). Chief among them was Stephen Colbert, who celebrated the reboot of The Late Show with a cold open bit in which he played a bearded Earnest Hemingway-esque sea captain crooning Jimmy Buffettâs âSon of a Son of a Sailorâ while getting the latest news from a dolphin.
âReally? Sheâs dating Travis Kelce?â Colbert said in response to a series of squeaks breaking the celeb love affair news to him. âI think this is the one.â And while Colbert knows a lot of things, at this point neither Swift nor Kelce have publicly commented on or confirmed the rampant speculation that they are dating. The loud whispers, of course, have been stoked by Swiftâs appearance at the last two Kansas City Chiefs games, where network cameras have cut to her dozens of times cheering on two-time Super Bowl champion tight end Kelce.
The proper monologue opened with Colbert hinting that a âmajor world leaderâ had come to New York the night before⌠of course he meant Swift being in town to watch Kelce. âAt the game, Taylor drank some dranks, hung out with Blake Lively, while injured Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers sat alone in the Sadness Box,â Colbert said over footage of Swift living it up and injured Jets QB Rodgers glumly texting while watching his new team keep it close in what was an eventual loss to the Super Bowl champs.
If nothing else, Colbert said itâs all great publicity for the NFL. âMere rumors that Tay-Tay might be at last nightâs game-game sent ticket prices surging more than 40 percent,â Colbert joked. âIt used to be that you couldnât afford to watch Taylor Swift. Now you canât afford to watch Taylor Swift watch something. The Swift Lift is not limited to tickets,â he added, noting that âmaybe-boyfriendâ Kelceâs jersey saw a 400% sales spike over the past week, while the denim shorts she wore to the game have sold out everywhere.
âEverything she touches is instantly revitalized,â Colbert said while getting an idea for another possible Swift target. âTaylor: If this relationship doesnât work out, is there any way you can start dating one of our nationâs crumbling bridges?â And because every celeb couple needs a clever portmanteau, he suggested âTraylor Swelce.â
Colbert and fellow late nighters Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers all played a bit of catch-up on Monday, hitting the high (and low) points they missed over the summer, from former president Donald Trumpâs quartet of indictments to Rep. Lauren Boebertâs viral Bettlejuice musical hand jive and jokes about the The Golden Bachelor, as well as heartfelt thanks to their returning writing staffs after a long, hot strike summer. Plus, Traylor jokes, of course.
Fallon also performed a tiny song recapping the strike summer that opened with him singing, âFirst things first, thereâs Taylor Swift. Wonder if sheâll write a song about meeting⌠Travis Kelceâs mom.â
Watch Colbertâs bits below.
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Valentineâs Day is the perfect holiday for couples to get a little steamy⌠or not. Once kids, a mortgage and chronic back pain are involved, spontaneity and romance donât come as easily. Luckily, Boyz II Men and Stephen Colbert have updated the boy bandâs sensual track âIâll Make Love to Youâ to be a lot more relatable for couples who are welllllll past the honeymoon phase.
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The R&B trio made a special appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday (Feb. 14) with a reimagined song and music video for their 1994 hit, which spent 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. To be more representative of the trackâs updated lyrics, an addendum was added to its title, in parentheses: âIâll Make Love to You (But We Donât Have To).â
âItâs our 15th Valentineâs Day, weâre gonna celebrate once this house is clean,â sings band member Nathan Morris, tenderly stretching on a pair of rubber cleaning gloves.
âAre the kids finally asleep?â croons Shawn Stockman. âSaid weâd do it once a week/But we donât have to, babe, letâs see whatâs on TV.â
âIâll make love to you if you want me to,â WanyĂĄ Morris sings. âUnless youâre too tired, because Iâm tired, too.â
The âEnd of the Roadâ musicians shared the music video to their Instagram page in a joint post with Colbert, who also performed a featured verse on the revamped track. âItâs time that Valentineâs Day made room for those couples among us who are still deeply in love â but also love being deeply asleep by 9 p.m.,â reads the caption.
Watch Boyz II Men perform an updated version of âIâll Make Love to Youâ below.
Mariah Carey graces The Late Show With Stephen Colbert with her presence on Wednesday nightâs (Dec. 7) episode, and in the lead-up to the sit-down, the talk show gave fans a sneak peek at the Queen of Christmas taking Stephen Colbertâs famed âColbert Questionert.â
The host kicks off the round of questions by asking, âYou only get one song to listen to for the rest of your life. What is it?â Mariahâs answer turns out to inadvertently be one of her very own. âStephen Colbertâs latest hit,â she replied cheekily, to which Colbert informed her, âThe last song I sang was âAll I Want for Christmasâ on this show, last night, actually. ⌠I ended the monologue singing your song last night!â
Of course, the icon wanted to know just how much of her No. 1 hit the host crooned, and he treated her to the songâs iconic intro and part of the chorus. âYou skipped a little part of the B section, but thatâs all right,â Mariah sang along to the melody as the audience erupted into laughter with her.
âAll I Want for Christmas Is Youâ has already begun its now-annual journey up the Hot 100 for this Christmas season. On the chart dated Dec. 10, the 1994 single sits at No. 2, just behind Taylor Swiftâs âAnti-Hero.â Itâs peaked at No. 1 three years in a row now, dating back to its first ascension in 2019.
Later this month, Carey is bringing her Christmas spirit to New York City and Toronto for a quartet of Merry Christmas to All! holiday concerts, and will also get her very own primetime holiday special on CBS.
Watch a preview of Mariahâs festive âColbert Questionertâ below.
Comedian Mike Birbiglia has steadily climbed from playing college cafeteria gigs to comedy clubs, off-Broadway theaters, starring in films and, currently, playing Broadway with his latest one-man show, The Old Man & the Pool. But despite spinning his warm-hearted tales in TV shows, movies, his Working It Out podcast and the stage, nothing could prepare the frequent This American Life contributor for an unexpected phone call he got a few months ago from Taylor Swift.
âIâm in the âAnti-Heroâ video⌠itâs just a fluke-y thing,â Birbiglia told Stephen Colbert on Tuesday nightâs (Nov. 8) The Late Show about his stunt casting alongside fellow funny folk John Early (Search Party) and Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Itâs Always Sunny In Philadelphia) in the video, where they play Swiftâs battling heirs. Mike and Taylor happen to share a friend in common, producer Jack Antonoff, who Birbiglia explained he met at Bonnaroo 15 years ago.
âIt just so happened she was writing the music video the day that we happened to meet and we were having pizza with Jack and a bunch of folks and she thought, âOh, you,’â Birbiglia said. âApparently in her mind she thought this is the dystopoic, nightmare version of what my son would be. And thatâs my dream come true.â
Birbiglia wasnât sure his fantasy would become reality at first, though. He said he got a text from Swift a month or two later and, if heâs being honest, he was pretty sure he was being catfished. âI thought, âitâs either Taylor Swift⌠that would be cool,â or itâs someone catfishing me whoâs an excellent writer,â he recalled thinking when the call came in. âBecause she sent the script to the video, thatâs wonderful and very funny⌠so I thought, âeither way, sort of a win-win.â And I go, âcount me in⌠either Taylor Swift or catfish person!’â
Swift will notch another major career milestone this week she she becomes the first artist to spend a full year at No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart.
Watch Birgiblia tell his Taylor tale on The Late Show below.
