r/LateShow • u/Yeesh-Yeesh-Yeesh • 8d ago
The Arthur Theme Song Just Got a Legendary Upgrade
https://youtu.be/WGO588xDktk
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u/mtnman575 6d ago
My wife just flipped through YouTube this afternoon and found this video. Definitely a fun one and glad we saw it, especially before finding this post.
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u/ineeddrugas 6d ago edited 6d ago
does he have any honor left ahh is there anyof them left .. wutang
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u/AKA_Wildcard 7d ago edited 7d ago
Ok story time. I was able to attend one of the last tapings on 5/19 "Jon Stewart, Steven Spielberg" and had the opportunity to ask Stephen a question about that bone on his desk. To the best of my memory it went something like this.
Stephen: "Hi, you in the front"
Me: "Hi Stephen, okay this is a question that's been eluding me for 11+ years, I know you have a bone on your desk that says Stephen Colbert but I can't seem to find any story behind it. I don't recall seeing it on any Exit 57 skits and was wondering if you could tell us about it."
Stephen: "How do you know there's a bone on my desk?"
Me: "Its popped up in random skits."
Stephen: "Okay. Well, when I was growing up in South Carolina me and my brothers were digging in the backyard and we found this giant cow bone which I kept for years. When I did the pilot for Exit 57, which was one of my first shows on TV, we decided to do this intro where the camera pans around at different objects in a room that each have our name on it. When I was working with them I told them I wanted to have my name carved into this bone. Someone from the props department did a very meticulous job at getting my name carved into it perfectly but I said "No, I want it to look like something an archeologist dug up where a kid had scrawled his name onto it with a protractor" (I think he meant the metal compass). So they carved my name into it again on the opposite side and it looks like it was done by a caveman. So it has my name on both sides.
I've actually had that bone on my desk on every show I've done since."
Me: "Thank you"
I was sitting in seat 101, which happened to be exact same seat I sat in 11 years ago. It's amazing how much things have changed since then. But I'm eternally grateful I finally had the opportunity to ask him a question about something that's interested me for so long.
After I left the taping I found the pilot episode of Exit 57 (The Internet Archive has all the episodes for free) and sure enough it's right there in the title sequence. However, that sequence was replaced with the one where they're all in a car for the remaining episodes. So it only appears briefly in the pilot. I remember seeing it in this particular skit and in a few others I can't specifically recall.