January 18, 2016 - Patricia Heaton, Quincy Jones, Deray McKesson, Grace

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Episode GuideEPISODE NUMBER: Season 1, Episode 73 (Monday, January 18, 2016)
GUESTS: Patricia Heaton | Quincy Jones | Deray McKesson | Grace
SEGMENTS: A Modest PromPosal for Bernie Sanders | Patricia Heaton | Quincy Jones | Deray McKesson | Grace — “You Don’t Own Me”
SUIT REPORT: Blue Window Pane Suit | White Shirt | Aubergine Patterned Tie

Tonight, the Late Show welcomes Patricia Heaton, Quincy Jones, Deray McKesson, plus music from Grace.

  • Gina

    Colbert Style Alert: He has a slightly different suit tonight! It’s my job on the Hub at the moment to post the segments and wardrobe info, so I had to actually look up the style he was wearing. I can haz learning on the menz clothes!

    I enjoyed the repartee with Stephen and Jon at the top of the show. The “monologue” or that space before he goes to the desk if fun, light and short. I don’t like the joke before the opening credits, the joke always falls flat. It’s bad energy, Stephen! Let it go.

    I’m sure everyone is going to say “oh, Stephen talked over the guest” with Patricia Heaton, but that Catholic-off was pretty, um, heatoned, so we have to make an allowance for that. That is cool that Heaton’s sister is actually a Dominican sister.

    Y’all wouldn’t have noticed, but after BLM movement leader Deray McKesson, Jon Batiste played “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is considered the “national anthem” in the black community. I get the sense that Jon really likes to reflect on heritage and music greats, hence his episode-long ode to Quincy Jones (playing “Thriller” songs throughout.)

  • Roseha

    It turned out to be a really good show. I was not surprised that Stephen would acknowledge Martin Luther King day and his segment with Deray McKesson on the civil rights movement was a welcome discussion on such a serious matter. Personally I think they could have moved Patricia Heaton to another night but maybe it had something to do with her schedule. Quincy Jones and his insisting on telling about his early days pre-music was entertaining. It was interesting that the band played the theme to “Sanford and Son” when he came on, I didn’t remember that he had written that.
    I loved the little back and forth about basketball chants that Stephen had with Jon. Who knew that Jon had played on the national champion high school team!
    Nice to see Grace Kelly again.

  • Lou

    That interview with DeRay McKesson was absolutely fantastic: a frank and important conversation. It ranks up there with the Biden and the Malala interviews for me. YouTube commenters seem to think otherwise though… That’s how you see the difference with the Colbert Report audience!

    • Rita

      I hope (and believe!) that the comments on YouTube is NOT from Colbert’s audience (the comments are truly aggressively disgusting!), but from people who watch the clip through links from Mediaite, Salon and the likes. YouTube is an open forum and the comment section in any video about racism, feminism or Hillary Clinton tend to attract the worst of humanity.

      • Gina

        All the CNN commenters who lost their commenting home went to Youtube to continue their commenting blood sport. I’d rather read Yahoo! Answers.

  • llama

    It was nice to see Patricia Heaton. I LOVE The Middle. So funny. It was nice to see another Catholic Throwdown, although I wish they could curse like when he did it with Jack White. Still, it was good.