Last Tuesday Over Five Million Viewers Watched Colbert Welcome James Comey On LATE SHOW

Last Tuesday, with former FBI Director James Comey as his guest, THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT delivered a huge 5.20 million viewers, according to Nielsen live plus 3-day ratings for Tuesday, April 17. This was THE LATE SHOW's third largest live plus 3-day audience to date, behind the program's series premiere on Sept. 8, 2015 (8.83m) and Sept. 22, 2015 (5.85m). THE LATE SHOW beat "Tonight" (2.30m) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (1.88m) combined by over one million viewers (vs. 4.18m, +24%). Additionally, THE LATE SHOW added +1.13m viewers, the program's largest 3-day lift since August 14, 2017 (interview with Anthony Scaramucci).

In addition, the full, un-cut clip of Colbert's interview of James Comey has over three million views and COUNTING ON THE LATE SHOW's Youtube page.

For the week ending April 20, THE LATE SHOW posted an average of 3.93m viewers, 0.8 in adults 25-54 and 0.6 in adults 18-49 according to Nielsen live plus 3-day ratings. THE LATE SHOW added +740,000 viewers (from 3.19m), +0.1 rating point in adults 25-54 (from 0.7) and +0.2 in adults 18-49 (from 0.4) in live plus 3-day lift from live plus same day ratings.

With 3-day lift, LATE SHOW improved its advantage over "Tonight" in viewers to +1.60m (vs. 2.33m) after leading by +1.00m with same day viewers (vs. 2.19m). With 3-day viewing, LATE SHOW moved ahead of "The Tonight Show" in adults 18-49 (0.6 vs. 0.5) after trailing live plus same day (0.4 vs. 0.5).

Season-to-date, most current, LATE SHOW is up +24% in viewers (3.89m from 3.15m), +13% in adults 25-54 (0.9/05 from 0.8/04) and even in adults 18-49 (0.6/04) compared to last season. THE LATE SHOW beats "Tonight" in viewers (3.89m vs. 2.73m, +42%).

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