With only a few episodes left behind the desk of “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert dedicated Monday’s show to the segments, sketches and graphics that never made it to air.
“We definitely have enough material for a ‘Best of’ clip show, but y’all got YouTube — you do it,” Colbert quipped in a laid-back monologue. “We thought it’d be more fun to show you stuff we made but never aired and call it ‘The Worst of the Late Show,’ though technically what you’re about to see is still the best worst stuff we ever made.”
As is tradition during “The Late Show” rehearsal, Colbert ate steamed chicken out of a to-go container while performing in front of his staff. “If you see anything you don’t like, it’s their fault!” the host said.
One old sketch Colbert debuted for the first time on air was a parody commercial for a product called Erotic Body Gravy, to be used for post-Thanksgiving dinner sex.
“When I watched it, I said ‘Those actors are way too attractive for comedy.’ You guys ended up just making softcore gravy porn,” Colbert said. To make matters worse: “Unbeknownst to me at the time — or anyone else — my appendix had already burst before rehearsal and was leaking poisonous bile into my abdominal cavity.”
