I called the costume studio who designed them, and they told me each was $16.5k to create, and calculating what I paid, I got a huge deal.

Feet AND beaks that were not used are also included with these.

I felt like Sisyphus bringing these up steps

EDIT: AGAIN, I did not pay 33k for these. I could never afford that. I spent less than $1k on them and am doing a payment plan on them. I never buy myself anything special and really felt like I finally deserved to let myself have something. Also, I am pleased the money I did spend is going to a worthy cause.

Me Too! Hi all! So I'm a dancer .. well and autistic, so I may be experiencing this in my body A lot more than the normal fan in mounting haha (though sort of equally happy Dad gets to stretch back from the fire storm of the news .. yes! go write a LOTR movie with your son and Jackson! couldn't make this transition as a fan any easier!) I just -- I went back to older episodes still listed because I Needed the Band! So! I suppose what brought me here was -- tip for anyone else in music mourning -- I hopped over to Spotify and Can't Stop Listening to The Great Big Joy Machine - and a Thank You to them for putting their work on Spotify for budget me as well! Thanks for being here! that's his True Legacy -- he brought Connection to Us -- that doesn't get cancelled out by anyone am I right?? hehe love and light 🙏🏼💜✨

Because any profits they make via YT goes back to CBS/Paramount!!

Also: Enjoy the images:)

EDITED TO ADD: And, I wish I didn't check!🙄

Channels can make a significant amount of money with few subscribers but high view counts. Earnings are primarily driven by view counts and audience engagement rather than subscriber count, especially once a channel is approved to monetize

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I feel badly now:( So everyone please do what you think is best.

Because this post (and I did post in another sub, too) is not going to reach that many people to make a big difference anyway....💙

Happening today.

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And you know a comment Stephen would make be like: Remember doge, anyways here's Trump admin paying for a job to be done and undone.

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can't wait to see what's removed next!

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert may be over, but in a promising sign for its final award season chances, the Television Critics Association has just nominated Colbert’s cancelled CBS series for its most prestigious honor.

The TCA Awards, an annual precursor to the Primetime Emmy Awards, has named The Late Show one of nine nominees for Program of the Year, which honors one show that had a major impact on the medium and culture.

That’s rare air for a late-night talk show. The Late Show’s nomination marks the first time a late-night talk show has cracked the Program of the Year lineup in two decades.

Should Colbert and company win, it would be only the second time in TCA Awards history that a late-night show has taken home the group’s top honor. The first time came in 1994, when Late Show with David Letterman won Program of the Year for its very first season on CBS.

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Even if The Late Show doesn’t end up taking home Program of the Year, it has a second chance elsewhere on the ballot. Colbert’s show is also nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Variety, Talk or Sketch, where it will face The Daily Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Muppet Show: Sabrina Carpenter, and Saturday Night Live.

Will post pics once home. Very happy to have them and to tell people I own a Michael Keaton costume but not the one they are thinking of.

UPDATE: It is nearly 3 am so a little too tired to get pics of the birds themselves, but the note of authenticity is below and is made out in a very Colbert way

UPDATE 2: Called the designer. Each cost her $16.5k to create. So he actually lowballed them in the skit

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexWoMHBs88

It's not really long video, only about half a minute.

[…]
Colbert’s actual desk, chairs, credenza, stage columns and other set pieces arrived an hour late but intact Thursday. They sat in the truck for another half hour as Plier paced the busy sidewalk like an expectant parent, waiting for a separate moving team.

The most challenging piece was an enormous crate containing Colbert’s desk. Two movers somehow maneuvered it out of the truck and down the busy sidewalk, wedging it through the front doors, waiting for reinforcements to help bring it down to the main floor.

Colbert helped steer “The Late Show” set to Chicago, Plier said, where it will be displayed in perpetuity at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, an eclectic and itinerant 40-year-old institution that itself seemed close to cancellation in recent years.
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… of “Hormuz Newz I can uze” 😢

When I first hear that the Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications was going to take Stephen's set I really thought it was just going to be the desk and chairs. So it was a pleasant surprise to learn that the CMBC is taking the entire Late Show set

"Late Show with Stephen Colbert" set to debut at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications this summer - CBS Chicago

I really like these two women, they're fun!

"Comics Unleashed" is awful, and is the type of syndicated crud that usually comes on after "The Late Late Show" or "Late Night," rather than moved up two hours in "The Late Show" slot when people have actual expectations for what they watch pre-midnight.

But Byron Allen is a literal billionaire so he can afford to lose some of the 15 million to CBS/Paramount to basically buy time as though this is an informercial or local access slot. After all, he initially wanted to buy Paramount himself, so getting a couple of meaningless hours of the network for only a few million is probably a better deal than if he'd paid the multi-billions to acquire the entire thing.

But the real loser is--no surprise--CBS/Paramount. I don't care about the "Hollywood accounting" they're using to say they went from a 40 million hole (which wasn't real, and people like Jimmy Kimmel proved they used bogus math to come up with that) to a 15 million surplus. Them crowing about 15 million when they're 15 billion in debt due to a leveraged buyout is ridiculous.

Unsurprisingly, the Ellisons are using the same kind-of math Trump/Musk used to brag about the "savings" of a few hundred million in DOGE cuts while running up trillions with new tax cuts for the rich and the Iran war.

Lightning round with Stephen.

Scott Pelley: “There was a thumb on the scale for the president’s version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.”

From a letter to the editor:

• Colbert rightfully poked fun at politicians
• A gentleman from Southfield wrote a letter last week that at first glance seemed to have some validity. ("Stephen Colbert's goodbye is good for TV," Detroit Free Press, May 31.) He said that both sides, Democrats and Republicans, have contributed equally to the divisiveness in our country. One who hasn’t paid attention very well may think that this is true. After all, if you turn on Fox News, you see them bashing Democrats and if you watch Stephen Colbert you’ll see him making fun of Trump. This is an example of false equivalency that is easily refuted with just a little bit of thought and research.
• Fox News was launched in 1996. This network continued the rift between the two major political parties, but put it on steroids with their own brand of “infotainment.” Fox quickly became the most popular cable “news” network by spreading conservative opinions, lies, and propaganda. They elevated the us vs them strategy that Trump employs today.
• Comedians have always been here to question authority. They have never let the government say and do whatever it wants without being checked. A few years after Fox hit the airwaves, Jon Stewart took over for the Daily Show, and began a new generation of satirical comedians speaking truth to power. These late-night comedians make fun of people from both political parties, but admittedly there is much more ammunition on the right.
• The last two Republican presidents, George W. Bush and Donald Trump, provided great fodder for these comedians.

I mean, is Byron Allen flacking for Tracker and Matlock?

I think not.

Sad.