CBS said Monday that Stephen Colbert’s late-night show will return to doing live episodes on June 14, with a vaccinated audience in New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater.
The show produced 205 episodes without a live audience in more than a year because of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“I look forward to once again doing the show for an audience I can smell and touch."
Audience members will be required to show proof of vaccination before being allowed in Colbert's audience, CBS said. Face masks will be optional. Staff and crew members will be tested prior to coming back to work and monitored regularly for signs of symptoms.
Colbert did his first show remotely on March 16, 2020, with a monologue taped from his bathtub at home. The show has been done from the offices at his home theater lately.
“I look forward to once again doing the show for an audience I can smell and touch,” Colbert said.
“The Late Show” is the top-rated late-night entertainment show.
“The Tonight Show” starring Jimmy Fallon, who started filming in front of a reduced-capacity audience in March, will begin welcoming a full and vaccinated studio audience in early June.
And Jimmy Kimmel told Deadline earlier this month that his LA-produced show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is hopeful of getting an audience back in June.
Avery Newmark of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution contributed to this report.
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