Final Week
Michael Keaton and Paul Schaffer were on hand to help the late-night host reminisce about the unaired bits from the show
It’s officially the last week of The Late Show. For one of his final episodes, Stephen Colbert paid tribute to some of the worst ideas the late-night show has had, including dressing Michael Keaton up as a pigeon.
Monday night’s show opened with a bit featuring Keaton, who appeared outside Colbert’s office window as a literal bird man. In the clip, Colbert was struggling to come up with a show idea featuring the actor when he spotted pigeon Keaton tapping on the glass and strutting outside. “That pigeon looks just like Michael Keaton,” he mused. It turned out to be a surreal dream, in which Keaton and Colbert, both as pigeons, fought over a slice of old pizza.
The real Keaton eventually woke Colbert up and the duo discussed Colbert’s idea to have a celebrity dress up like a pigeon as a bit. After Keaton told him he loved the idea, Colbert admitted, “Here’s the thing: We ran out of shows and we couldn’t fit the bit in. But then I thought, ‘Wait, what if we did a worst of The Late Show episode?’ It’d feature all of the weird bits that either completely failed or things that we as a staff liked but thought the audience would absolutely hate.”
