Last night’s last Late Show had at least one error of fact,¹ at least one very hidden joke,² and many surprises.³
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¹ The song one guest recalled hearing early in life was Fred Fisher’s “Chicago (That Todd’ling Town),” published in 1922. Stephen Colbert mistakenly identified Sammy Cahn as its writer. Cahn wrote the lyrics for the 1964 song “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)” (music by Jimmy Van Heusen).
² Look at the electrical boxes.
³ You think I’m going to mention them here?
Friday, May 22, 2026
Three Colbert footnotes
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And a very obscure mistake the night before: Colbert mentioned seeing Snowflake the albino gorilla at the National Zoo. Snowflake, whom I saw in 1973, was in the Barcelona Zoo, and never traveled to the US. You can Google it. Snowflake was much beloved in Spain.
Strange mistake. And if Snowflake is the lone albino gorilla ever known, SC couldn’t have been thinking of some other albino gorilla.
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