If it was up to David Letterman, there would be a woman hosting CBS’ The Late Show right now instead of Stephen Colbert. So he suggests.

Cynthia Erivo, the British singer and actress currently starring as Celie in Broadway’s The Color Purple, performed one of the show’s closing songs, “I’m Here,” on Monday night’s episode of The Late Show, and—in four breathtaking minutes—proved that she has a better voice than you.

On Wednesday night, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren appeared on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert. She was, as always, the smart teacher who talks with her hands and really makes you want to do better in school. Warren and Colbert spoke about a broad range of subjects, from the presidential primary to her…

Note to any and all late night hosts: Actor Casey Affleck does not have a great sense of humor about himself, so please don’t try to have fun with him.

Amanda Peet went on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to promote the second season of her very good HBO show, Togetherness. Somewhere along the way, things got Real.

On Wednesday evening’s episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert’s opening monologue was interrupted by the notoriously showboating winner of the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

In a rare moving moment in late night, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert hosted DeRay Mckesson—Black Lives Matter activist and one founder of Campaign Zero (an organization focused on ending police violence)—on Martin Luther King Day for a discussion on white privilege, police brutality, and the problem with…

Spike Lee appeared on a recent episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to talk about his new film, Chi-Raq. The movie is a modern re-telling of Lysistrata, an anti-war, ancient Greek comedy in which a woman convinces the other women in her city to withhold sex from their husbands and lovers until a peace treaty…

On Monday night, Stephen Colbert’s Late Show featured some truly wondrous live entertainment: the Amazing Acro-cats. In keeping with their nature (i.e., being cats), they were quite desultory about their performance. At one point, the host himself felt obliged to pitch in. Just hand the entire late-night lineup over…

On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night, Senator Claire McCaskill dropped by to make an instructive video about all the subjects on which men should “shut the hell up.” We’re listening. We’re right here with you.

On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton had a relatively light-hearted interview with Stephen Colbert. Her first visit to what she called the “cathedral of Colbert,” comes in the middle of a media blitz of sorts; from a dance lesson Ellen to playing a bartender on Saturday Night Live.

On a segment from last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host explored, with some degree of trepidation, a little trend called “vaping.”

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the few people who might actually make a good president, is definitely not running for president, she told Stephen Colbert Wednesday night. Fighting income inequality and corporate control of America is a full-time job, she said, in so many words, and one she’s kind of…

Brand new Late Show host Stephen Colbert hosted Donald Trump last night, the presidential candidate America richly deserves. His ideas continue to be highly sophisticated: Build a “great, beautiful” wall between the U.S. and Mexico with a “beautiful big, fat door” in it. Make Mexico pay for it. Make it a “serious…

On Monday night, Republican presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, respectively, but only one arose victorious. Let’s compare the chats, shall we?

While tonight’s Late Show interview with Bernie Sanders was absent any of the respective tears or deep, deep discomfort that characterized Colbert’s two biggest moments so far (and at least compared to every other candidate interview we’ve seen), Sanders still manages to leave you with the impression that the man is…

On his third night as the new host of the Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed guest Joe Biden, with an audience enthusiastically chanting the vice president’s name. The appearance had supporters hoping for a campaign announcement and Colbert wasted no time addressing the topic.

“You are all witnessing television history,” Stephen Colbert said as he opened the Late Show. The long-hyped television event was a bit underwhelming, but perhaps that was inevitable because expectations were so high. Yet Colbert was charming and, admittedly, it’s a near-seismic shift from the familiar “Stephen…

On Thursday evening, Jon Stewart said goodbye to his loyal, leftie viewers.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Rihanna provides inspiration, Stephen Colbert gets the hang of things and Joel Madden gets cryptic.