wanted an audience with the teenage sensation. at least 20, 25 requests a day. we heard from the letterman show, leno. we would get requests from people wanting him to come and shoot with their kids at their child s bar mitsvah. it was just unbelievable. all under the watchful eye of lebron s mother gloria. as he was pulled in more and more differently directions, the motherly protection instincts kicked into high gear. this was her son s life. the teenager signed a lucrative deal with nike for tens of millions before graduating high school. at a postgame press conference, a reporter asked about the plans. he looked over at me and he said, well, patty, i think i have to get back to school. i have a lot of assignments to make up. he didn t have to do that but it was on his mind.
executives and tv producers all wanted an audience with the teenage sensation. at least 20, 25 requests a day. we heard from the letterman show, leno. we would get requests from people wanting him to come and shoot with their kids at their child s bar mitsvah. it was just unbelievable. all under the watchful eye of lebron s mother gloria. as he was pulled in more and more differently directions, the motherly protection instincts kicked into high gear. this was her son s life. the teenager signed a lucrative deal with nike for tens of millions before graduating high school. at a postgame press conference, a reporter asked about the plans. he looked over at me and he said, well, patty, i think i have to get back to school. i have a lot of assignments to make up. he didn t have to do that but it was on his mind.
they said, no, don t do that joke and i wish i d done that [ bleep ]ing joke. i can t tell you how excited i am to be here tonight. i realize many of you may not share that excitement, given that you have no idea who i am. that s a very odd night. because i ve done it a couple of times. you know, that s kind of a tough room. even though his poll numbers are at an historic low, the speaker s writing another book. once again, he s taking a one-dollar advance. not voluntarily. that s the most he could get. as uptight as a group can be. you could do whatever you want to open a sphincter, all right? and it s not going to happen. in washington, there are people who live to be offended. comedians don t live to be offended, they live to offend. hosting the white house correspondents dinner was the most scared i ve ever been as a performer with the exception of my first appearance on the letterman show. mr. president, remember remember when the country rallied around you in ho
colbert will make his debut of host of the letterman show. can he conquer late night tv for a second time and do it playing himself? joining me is joel lovell who wrote the cover story of colbert for gq. you re one of the few people outside of the people around colbert who had insight into what he plans to do. who ises go to turn up on that stage tonight? that s a great question. i think the answer is that there s a whole range of stephen colberts who will turn up on stage. the one person who won t appear is the character he played on his former show. otherwise i think he ll range from his usual very smart, endearing congenial self and other characters he slips to depending on the situation. of course the blowhard cable tv host patterned after who
when he was doing the late show after the tonight show that brought over a little bit which you see every are where. it s so ubiquitous in advertising which is something is funny because it s random and i m going to hold it out there long enough that you think about it and it becomes funny. right. exactly. it s not they used to call that found humor on the letterman show. it was not scripted. it was just some idea they had that sounded funny. and if you put dave in that situation, he would make it funny. he d go to a store that was just bulbs and order a shade, a lamp shade. no, we only have bulbs. he would do something out of nothing. they looked for that, crazy ideas. one idea he particularly liked they took a humidifier and dehumidifier and let them fight each other. it s just a funny idea. that to me, you see now in fallon particularly, he s kind of self-contained bits like