It’s not clear when Colbert himself agreed to book the episode, but while interviewing Elsbeth co-star Wendell Pierce on The Late Show in February, the host said he had been telling his CBS bosses that he very much wanted to make an appearance on Elsbeth,

President Donald Trump is addressing speculation he had something to do with the cancellation of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “Everybody is saying that I was solely responsible for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS,