# Elon Musk on The Late Show? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 25, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-on-the-late-show/1016081 "2025-03-25T09:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-on-the-late-show/1016081/1 "2025-03-25T09:54:41Z")
TIL that some time in the recent past, Elon Musk was a guest on The Late Show with Steven Colbert. From the small amount I’ve been able to find, I gather that some of Steven’s remarks/questions got under Elon’s skin, and he stormed off the show (or he was asked to leave; searches reveal varying headlines). BUT, every search I try, the most I can find is a video showing a still of the Late Show set with Musk and Colbert for over twenty minutes, while an AI-generated narrator tells the viewer _about_ the encounter. I don’t want to be _told_ about the encounter; I want to _watch_ it (ideally, without having to pay for [or create] an account with cbs dot com). Is this possible? The hits I’ve managed to find (but refuse to watch) won’t even tell me when this took place (which enrages me so much I considered putting this in the Pit. And it might belong there anyway, because Elon). Anyway, TIA for any assistance in finding what I seek. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-on-the-late-show/1016081/2 "2025-03-25T11:53:24Z")
Sounds like made-up nonsense. Colbert’s Late Show has aired since 2015. You can find the complete episode list, including guests, here and on linked pages. > **[List of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Colbert_episodes)** > > The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is an American late-night talk show and it airs weeknights at 11:35 pm Eastern/10:35 pm Central on CBS in the United States. The hour-long show has aired since September 8, 2015, and is hosted by actor, comedian and critic Stephen Colbert, an alumnus of The Daily Show and former host of The Colbert Report. Louis Cato and The Late Show Band serve as the show's house band. A total of 1,621 episodes have aired. I went through the entire collection of episodes looking for Musk. He was on Colbert’s second episode overall, on 9 September 2015. He was the _second_ guest after Scarlett Johansson, which underlines how he wasn’t an A-lister at that time. Doubtful he’d allow himself to be relegated to the back half of the episode these days. > **[List of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert episodes (2015) | September](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Colbert_episodes_(2015)#September)** > > 1.Official website | > 2.Lineups at Interbridge | > 3.The Late Show with Stephen Colbert at IMDb But anyway, there’s zero record of Musk having appeared on the show after that one. Is it possible he came back and there was an incident and the episode never aired as a result? Sure, I guess, it’s possible. But in that case there would be no record of it. But Occam’s Razor tells us this is almost certainly an internet fiction. **Edit** with an addendum: Based on this, the current version of Musk wouldn’t have the balls to go on Colbert anyway. > **[Jon Stewart Says Elon Musk Flaked on Interview Offer: “You Know That’s Bulls\*\*t”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-elon-musk-interview-1236154439/)** > > 'The Daily Show' host says the X kingpin backed down after he called his bluff. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-on-the-late-show/1016081/3 "2025-03-26T22:05:40Z")
Was that the one where he wanted to nuke Mars? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/elon-musk-on-the-late-show/1016081/4 "2025-03-28T14:55:09Z")
Yeah, I watched that 2015 show. He DID suggest that nuking Mars would be an effective first step for terraforming. Apparently, he didn’t watch the series finale of _Dinosaurs_.