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This gets weird.
While waiting to return to air in his new role as David Letterman's replacement on "The Late Show," Stephen Colbert made a surprise guest host appearance on "Only in Monroe," a Michigan public access television program.
One of Colbert's guests for the evening was Eminem, whom, as seen in the video below, the host calls Marshall Mathers.
The conversation has a very sarcastic tone to it, which causes Eminem to say he's "confused" multiple times.
The two go from discussing Michigan's Bob Seger to Colbert playing dumb about the music industry term "feat." and then heeding Eminem about relying on a music career to "pay the rent." They also discuss the upcoming movie "Southpaw," for which the rapper wrote a song and executive-produced the soundtrack, but even that wasn't without antics.
The show ends not with a performance from Eminem but with the two reading community announcements, of course.
The rest of the show also feels like a really long episode of "The Colbert Report."
Colbert, who returns to the air in August, begins by saying the show's hosts, Michelle Bowman and former Miss America Kaye Lani Rae Rafko Wilson, could not be there but then goes on to interview them in the first segment.
At one point, Colbert says, "Legally, stop lights are between 35 and 50 seconds long"; using an average time of 42 seconds, Colbert challenges Bowman to a nail-painting challenge to test her claim about being able to paint two of her nails within the span of one red light. Wilson is relegated to the role of judge.
MPACT programming director Lance Sottile spoke to the the New York Times in an interview Wednesday, about 24 hours after the show was taped and only a few hours after it went viral on YouTube.
Essentially, Colbert asked to do the show, to which the hosts obliged, Sottile tells the Times' Artsbeat blog. Eminem wasn't revealed as a guest until the day of the show, he adds.
As for Colbert's accommodations, Sottile said, "We made it happen. That's the best I can say. And it worked." (Read the full post here.)
The entire show is available on YouTube and posted below. Fast forward to the 22-minute mark to see just the Eminem segment.
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