{"id":1095,"date":"2026-05-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/06\/stephen-colbert-exclusive-photos-of-the-late-show-host\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:00:00","slug":"stephen-colbert-exclusive-photos-of-the-late-show-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/06\/stephen-colbert-exclusive-photos-of-the-late-show-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert: Exclusive Photos of the \u2018Late Show\u2019 Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pmc-gallery\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure> \t\t<img width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/001_GA_260417_0176.5-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not here to talk anybody into me,\u201d says Stephen Colbert, who was photographed outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where he\u2019ll continue to film \u2018The Late Show\u2019 until May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Smith suit, shirt, tie;<br \/> Omega watch; Oliver Peoples reading glasses; Vince belt; stylist\u2019s own pocket square.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Stephen Colbert<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/003_GA_260417_0580.8-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMaybe they gave me a gift. If I\u2019d decided to end the show, then I\u2019m the bad guy \u2014 hard to make jokes about that,\u201d says Colbert, photographed on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater building.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage Zegna suit, shoes; Paul Smith shirt, tie; Omega watch; Oliver Peoples reading glasses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Stephen Colbert<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/002_GA_260417_0925-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI know that the show had to end at some time, I did not expect it to end this way,\u201d says Colbert, who was photographed giving the finger to a Trump building on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Smith suit, shirt; Omega watch; Oliver Peoples reading glasses; stylist\u2019s own pocket square.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Stephen Colbert<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/002_GA_260417_0497.2-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI mean it sincerely when I say I\u2019m under no compunction to discover the truth,\u201d says Colbert of possible Trump ties to his ouster.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Smith suit, shirt, tie; Omega watch; Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses; stylist\u2019s own pocket square, belt.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Stephen Colbert<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/004_GA_260417_0446.4-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey have been great partners. But I went, \u2018I don\u2019t understand. It hasn\u2019t been two years since I signed my last contract, and they were feverish to lock me down,&#8217;\u201d recalls Colbert, who was photographed in the basement of the Ed Sullivan Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Zegna suit, sweater; Oliver Peoples reading glasses.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Stephen Colbert<\/h2>\n<figure> \t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/001_GA_260417_0510-EMBED-2026.jpg?w=1000\" alt=\"Stephen Colbert was photographed April\u202f17 on the roof of the Ed\u202fSullivan Theater in New York City.\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption> \t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI want to be remembered as a comedy show. We harvest laughter for a living,\u201d says Colbert, who playfully imitated scenes on the billboards above as he made his way around Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Smith suit, shirt, tie; Omega watch; Oliver Peoples reading glasses; Vince belt; stylist\u2019s own pocket square.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch \u201cI\u2019m not here to talk anybody into me,\u201d says Stephen Colbert, who was photographed outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, where he\u2019ll continue to film \u2018The Late Show\u2019 until May 21. Paul Smith suit, shirt, tie; Omega watch; Oliver Peoples reading glasses; Vince belt; stylist\u2019s own pocket square. Stephen Colbert Image Credit: Photo Credit: Photographed by Guy Aroch \u201cMaybe they gave me a gift. If I\u2019d decided to end the show, then I\u2019m the bad guy \u2014 hard to make jokes about that,\u201d says Colbert, photographed on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater building. Vintage Zegna suit, shoes; Paul Smith shirt, tie; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,252,682,683,85,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","category-stephen-colbert","category-the-late-show","category-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","category-tv","category-tv-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}