Stephen Colbert is helping raise funds for a Monroe, Michigan, media nonprofit after the former host of “The Late Show” made a surprise appearance last month on the organization’s public access program.
In a video posted to YouTube by Monroe Community Media, Colbert said during his recent appearance on “Only in Monroe,” the staff found an original script from his 2015 guest hosting gig on the show.
The script, which Colbert autographed in the YouTube clip, also includes original handwritten notes on the back.
As of Monday evening, the script was going for $3,000. It’s available on eBay, alongside other items from Colbert’s “Late Show” tenure and what Colbert called “broken pieces of the set” from his 2015 “Only in Monroe” appearance.
Proceeds from the script and set auctions will benefit Monroe Community Media, “who have kindly put up with my nonsense both this week and also back in July of 2015,” Colbert says in the clip, posted Thursday.
He joked that bidders can “help keep Monroe Community Media going, for me to show up again in 11 years.”
Colbert surprised audiences by hosting the May 22 edition of “Only in Monroe” less than 24 hours after his final episode of “The Late Show” was broadcast. He had hosted the CBS talk show since 2015.
CBS announced it would cancel the show in July. Paramount Global, CBS’s parent company, said it was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.” Critics, including other late night TV hosts, said the company was bending to political pressure from President Donald Trump.
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