The team at Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” is now taking entries from people wanting to attend the talk show’s live Chicago broadcasts in person.
Fans can apply at 1iota.com for tickets to any or all of Colbert’s Aug. 19-22 shows at the Auditorium Theatre, 50 East Ida B. Wells Dr., during that week’s Democratic National Convention.
The site says filming will begin “at 10:30 p.m. local time,” indicating the episodes will be live, although that hasn’t been announced. Only people 18 and older (or 16 and older with parent or guardian) may attend.
While Colbert is here, his former employer, “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central, also will be taping Chicago episodes further north at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture. Tickets for those episodes went on offer Monday.
The Auditorium shows will be the first full-on production of “The Late Show” outside of its New York base, although during the pandemic, Colbert did bare-bones broadcasts from his homes in New Jersey and South Carolina.
