I’m not gonna lie, I was looking forward to this a lot. This man is such a huge Lord of the Rings fan, I’m surprised he hadn’t moved in with Peter Jackson years ago.
The first part of the New Zealand Special has Steven being picked up at the airport by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and she really held her own in the interview that followed.
I thought I saw a tiny bit of Colbert’s old persona from The Colbert Report or his time at The Daily Show during the sit down and I kept grinning through it all.