Stephen Colbert Meets King Kong

Ahead of the Tony Awards on Sunday, Stephen meets this year's biggest star on Broadway. The WAY biggest. #LSSC #Colbert #KingKong Tune in to the 73rd Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 9 at 8/7c on CBS, or stream it live with CBS All Access!

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[Jaytheradical]

That might be one of the best puppets I've seen since Jurassic Park. 100/10.

[davidavocado]

That’s an impressive animatronic, it reminds me of the old King Kong ride at Universal.

[benzaiten]

Dame Kong is an amazing piece of strings and machinery.

[Lumibear.]

That mofo is astonishingly good, heck of a good combo of puppetry and animatronics, it must blow people’s minds when that walks on stage

[missybarbour]

1:46 You may be important, but have you ever been "customized parking cones" important?

[Tustin]

Anyone else catch the cameo performance of Stephen’s “man who cannot walk down steps” at 1:24? 😆

[JeddtheJedi]

Respect for Sonny Tilders and his creature effects shop. They also created the animatronic dinosaurs for the Walking With Dinosaurs arena show and the dragons for the How to Train Your Dragon arena show.

[klarastern]

wow... this looks so lifelike... I didn't know there were such huge, life like puppets in the theater... it really looks stunning 😮

[FirstnameLastname-knsw]

That is an amazing feat of puppetry.
Wow.

[FreakieFan]

Is that really what Kong looks like? There's no effects involved in this video?
WOW, that looks amazing!! How the hell does that thing work?? It looks so good.

[DuranmanX]

So how do you plan on defeating Godzilla?

[terrashine]

Mr . Colbert you truly are a national treasure for you fellow citizens.
I kind of envy them for having such a wonderful comedian.
Love your show 💞 hopefully my family will take a vacation to New York Next year so I finally get my dream of watching your show live.

[StelinaJustice]

02:06 "hello, anybody?" "Open your mind, it's 2019..." Looool

[toothpastehombre]

I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue

[USARMYvietnamVET]

People think of Stephen Colbert as a real Dork, but you have to admit he is one funny Dork.

[acecat]

What the heck Dame Kong you can't quote the Scottish play in a theatre!

[biostarkick]

Holy shit there's a King Kong *musical*?!
That Special Effects crew deserves ALL the awards! ALL OF THEM!

[Howtard]

Incredible puppetry showcased here; there's an great range of emotion and the movements are impressively close to a living creature!
The King Kong thing was cool, too.

[kylorenthehusky]

Wow, Queen Kong is amazingly life like! Love the size!

[puttentanesame]

Love this 'Kong meets California Raisin'