CBS's LATE SHOW with Guest VP Joe Biden Delivers Largest Tuesday Audience Since 2015

THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, with guest Vice President Joe Biden, was the top show in late night in viewers as it delivered its largest Tuesday audience since October 2015, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Dec. 6.

THE LATE SHOW averaged 3.39 million viewers, its best Tuesday in viewers since Oct. 6, 2015. THE LATE SHOW beat "The Tonight Show" in viewers (3.39m vs. 3.31m, +2%). In key demographics, THE LATE SHOW averaged 0.8/04 in adults 25-54 and 0.6/03 in adults 18-49, best Tuesday in both demos since Nov. 15.

THE LATE LATE SHOW with JAMES CORDEN averaged 1.49 million viewers, its largest Tuesday audience since Sept. 22, 2015.

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology and more.

Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste and his band Stay Human, the show is broadcast from the historic and newly renovated Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert took over as host, executive producer and writer of THE LATE SHOW on September 8, 2015.

A multi-talented and respected host, writer, producer, satirist and comedian, Colbert is well-known for his previous late night show, "The Colbert Report," which concluded on Friday, Dec. 18, 2014. The program received wide-spread critical acclaim and earned two Peabody Awards and 29 Emmy Award nominations, including two Emmy wins for Outstanding Variety Series (2013, 2014) and four Emmy wins for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program (2008, 2010, 2013, 2014). Prior to that, Colbert spent eight years as a correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" as an on-air personality and writer of news satire for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series.
Photo credit: Scott Kiwalchyk/CBS

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