1. Recurring solo sketches
     Bedtime Stories    The Big Furry Hat    Brain Fight With Tuck Buckford   Cartoon Donald Trump  Covetton House   First Drafts    The Hungry for Power Games    The Late Show Figure-It-Out-a-Tron    Midnight Confessions    Real News Tonight    Stephen Talks with God    WERD   Wheel of News   Meanwhile  

2. Recurring sketches with guests
     Big Questions with Even Bigger Stars    Guests Performed with    Community Calendar    Guests Performed with   Family Meeting   Guests Performed with   Rescue Dog Rescue  Guests Performed with 

3. References

The following is a list of sketches which debuted on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.^[1]

Recurring solo sketches

Bedtime Stories

On occasion when Colbert has an author on the show, he ends the episode by asking the author to read him a bedtime story. Authors who performed the sketch with Colbert include Jonathan Franzen and John Irving.

The Big Furry Hat

Colbert dons a giant hat that comes down from the ceiling and makes a series of humorous proclamations that people must follow (e.g., "Actor Paul Rudd must begin aging like the rest of us"). On November 13, 2015, John Cleese joined him wearing a bigger and furrier hat.^[1]

Brain Fight With Tuck Buckford

During the child custody trial of Infowars host Alex Jones, Colbert introduced a new right wing pundit character by the name of Tuck Buckford as the host of a fictional show titled "Brain Fight" beginning with the April 17, 2017 episode. The sketches are based on infamous segments of Jones's radio show which have Colbert parodying his over the top style of reporting, mocking his conspiracy theories, including certain personal aspects of Jones's life based on testimonies from the court trial.^[2]

Cartoon Donald Trump

On the March 30, 2016 episode, Colbert declared that based on his behavior in the presidential debates and town halls, Donald Trump had become a "cartoonish version of himself". In response, Colbert interviewed a "slightly less cartoonish" version of Trump—an animated caricature of him portrayed with a childish demeanor.^[3][4]

The character was designed by Tim Luecke, voiced by Brian Stack, and is controlled using Adobe Character Animator—which allows Colbert to interact with the character in real-time. Late Show tested the technology with a character of Colbert's "Irish ancestor" (which was intended for, but cut from a St. Patrick's Day episode), and two days before the debut of Trump in a sketch featuring Colbert interacting with a cartoon bluebird who supported Bernie Sanders.^[5][6] After Bill Clinton stated in his 2016 Democratic National Convention speech that the Republicans had created a "cartoon" version of her, Colbert introduced Cartoon Hillary Clinton.^[7][8]

Both Cartoon Trump and Cartoon Clinton have made appearances as recurring characters in later episodes, and Cartoon Trump was featured in an animated short during Colbert's election night special for Showtime.^[9][6] Showtime later announced that Colbert would executive produce a satirical animated series based on the sketches;^[10] the series, Our Cartoon President, premiered in January 2018.^[11]

Covetton House

Covetton House is Colbert's take on celebrity luxury brands, especially Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop. Each sketch typically features everyday products with fancy names and jacked-up prices. Some items are available for sale at Goop's website, with all proceeds going to charity.

First Drafts

Colbert invites a member of the audience up to read holiday/special event cards and their "first drafts", which poke fun at the event in question.

The Hungry for Power Games

In a parody of The Hunger Games, Colbert dresses up as a version of Caesar Flickerman and mocks a candidate that has dropped out of the race from the 2016 United States Presidential Election.^[12]

The sketch has occasionally been reprised as the 'Hungry To Leave Power Games, mocking departing members of the Trump administration such as Rex Tillerson and Scott Pruitt.^[13]

The Late Show Figure-It-Out-a-Tron

In a parody of Glenn Beck's use of chalkboards, Colbert brings out a chalkboard with names of people implicated in an ongoing scandal written all over it. He then tries to figure out the links between these people by drawing lines connecting their names. These lines form a humorous and often crude drawing related to the scandal, such as a penis or swastika.

Midnight Confessions

Colbert examines his conscience to his audience. He starts with a disclaimer that while the things that he confesses are not technically sins, he still feels guilty about them.

Real News Tonight

A parody of television newscasts, hosted by "Jill Newslady" and "Jim Anchorton", which consists entirely of stories that are positive towards Donald Trump.^[14]

Stephen Talks with God

Colbert talks with God, as portrayed as an animated character projected on the ceiling of the Ed Sullivan Theater.^[15]

WERD

Colbert chooses a word or phrase as a theme for a rant on a topical subject or news item while humorous captions displayed in a sidebar either highlight or sarcastically undercut what he is saying.

The segment is based on "The Wørd", a segment Colbert performed throughout the entire run of The Colbert Report. Colbert introduced The Wørd segment on The Late Show on July 18, 2016.^[16] During the July 27, 2016 episode, Colbert indirectly stated Comedy Central had objected to his use of elements from the Report on Late Show; subsequently, the segment has been done under the name "WERD".^[17]

Wheel of News

Colbert spins a wheel with random topics of news to talk about. Based on Wheel of Fortune.

Meanwhile

Colbert delivers some lesser-known news and stories, such as Philadelphia Flyers' new mascot Gritty and Buffalo Wild Wings' new BBQ pumpkin spice wings.

Recurring sketches with guests

Big Questions with Even Bigger Stars

Colbert and a guest sit under the stars and have absurd conversations about topics. Such conversations include killing baby Hitler, what Santa does the rest of the year, and whether they would rather have feet for hands or hands for feet.

Guests Performed with

1. Scarlett Johansson (September 9, 2015)
2. Tom Hanks (September 30, 2015)
3. Bryan Cranston (November 6, 2015)
4. Jennifer Lawrence (December 14, 2015)
5. Will Smith (August 2, 2016)
6. Kermit the Frog (February 1, 2016)
7. Samuel L. Jackson (June 29, 2016)
8. Mel Gibson (November 1, 2016)
9. Ryan Reynolds (March 21, 2017)
10. Brad Pitt (May 16, 2017)
11. Nicole Kidman (November 1, 2017)
12. Justin Timberlake (November 29. 2017)
13. Benedict Cumberbatch (May 18, 2018)
14. Matthew McConaughey (January 23, 2019)

Community Calendar

Colbert and a guest host a community calendar of events in the guest's hometown. Based from Colbert's special appearance at Only in Monroe, a local public access program in Monroe, Michigan, with Eminem as his guest.

Guests Performed with

1. Jeff Daniels—Chelsea, Michigan (March 11, 2016)
2. Nick Offerman—Minooka, Illinois (April 4, 2016)
3. Aaron Paul—McCall, Idaho (June 17, 2016)
4. Adam Driver—Mishawaka, Indiana (January 5, 2017)
5. John Oliver—Bedford of Bedfordshire, England (February 7, 2017)
6. James Marsden—Stillwater, Oklahoma (April 20, 2018)
7. Melissa McCarthy—Plainfield, Illinois (May 11, 2018)

Family Meeting

Colbert and his lead guest hold a family meeting in character as the concerned "parents" of the USA.

Guests Performed with

1. William H. Macy (November 19, 2016)
2. Joe Biden (December 7, 2016)
3. Leslie Mann (January 31, 2017)
4. Nick Kroll (September 28, 2017)

Rescue Dog Rescue

Colbert and his lead guest try to help find homes for dogs up for adoption by making up stories about them (such as claiming one dog knows the lyrics to the Frozen song "Let It Go", but will not sing them).

Guests Performed with

1. Aubrey Plaza (February 2017)
2. Bryan Cranston (March 2017)
3. Jim Parsons (May 2017)
4. Ellie Kemper (August 2017)
5. Billy Eichner (October 2017)
6. Nick Jonas (December 2017)

Source:^[18]

References

• Trickjumps
• Trick knot
• Trick (Koda Kumi album)
• TRICKLE
• Trickle-bed reactor
• Trickle Creek Golf Resort
• Trickle-down
• Trickle down economy
• Trickle-down theory
• Trickle-down theory (disambiguation)
• Trickle of the mountain
• Trickle of the plain
• Trickles
• Trickles down
• Trickle Up
• Trickle-up economics
• Trickle vent
• Trickle vents
• Trick McSorley
• Trick My Trucker
• Trick'n
• Trick'n (song)
• Trick of the Light (album)
• Trick of the mind
• Trick or treat?