May Stephen Colbert be switching from The Late Present to The Morning Present?

The 61-year-old late-night host, who will helm the CBS franchise till it involves an finish subsequent Could, discovered himself unexpectedly teaming up with Jennifer Aniston throughout Wednesday's episode to audition for a task as a weatherman on The Morning Present.

The audition got here up as a part of a dialog a few potential fifth season of Aniston's hit Apple TV+ collection. When she expressed her hope for one more installment, Colbert casually adopted up by asking if the present might need "any fancy casting alternatives" for folk in search of work.

"We're really performing some preliminary casting for this fifth season that we hope occurs," Aniston replied. Turning to the viewers, she added, " [Colbert] was an actor, proper? An excellent actor."

She continued, "So I simply thought, 'Why not?' You're going to be free subsequent 12 months. Beginning in June? You're avail? So I believed perhaps you possibly can audition for season 5 of The Morning Present! Isn't that type of good?”

When Colbert responded that he can completely fly out for an audition, Aniston waved away the suggestion.

"You don't must fly out. I introduced a scene with me proper now," she stated, pulling out a folder from behind her chair and handing Colbert a script. "And I determine we've obtained cameras in right here rolling, proper? So we will get you on tape, as they are saying."

Aniston then set the scene. "Inside day. UBN Studios. Center-aged man enters," she learn. "Simply image a Steve Carell kind however, as a result of [Carell's] already been on The Morning Present, somebody barely sexier."

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Carell, who starred alongside Colbert on The Each day Present, performed morning information anchor Mitch Kessler on the primary two seasons of The Morning Present.

Aniston, as her character Alex Levy, then launched Colbert's position. "You have to be the morning present's new weatherman, Jeremiah Cloudson-Storm," she stated.

Colbert rapidly corrected her pronunciation of the character's title, noting that Cloudson-Storm is "half Scottish," "half meteorologist," and "all weatherman."

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"Properly, we're excited to have you ever right here at UBN after the final man was caught having an affair in house after which exploded on re-entry," Aniston stated.

To which Colbert responded, "I keep in mind it properly. It was a partly cloudy day."

She then questioned Cloudson-Storm's resolution to make the leap from "20 years of doing late-night climate" to mornings. "Appears like you’ve gotten a troubled but intriguing backstory," Aniston stated, prompting Colbert to answer, "Yeah, I had the number-one late-night climate present till the community canceled it."

"What a premise! Sounds ripped from the headlines," she remarked.

Colbert responded, “Sure, however modified simply sufficient to not be legally actionable."

Aniston, naturally, employed Colbert's character on the spot. "Properly, Mr. Cloudson-Storm, should you suppose you may drag that type of intense dramatic baggage with you into this office, I’ve only one factor to say to you and that’s welcome to UBN!”

Colbert started to lean in slowly for a kiss earlier than Aniston snapped him out of the scene. “That's not within the script," she stated. "You gotta keep on with the scripts!"

Earlier this week, Colbert celebrated his tenth anniversary at The Late Present. Throughout his opening monologue, he joked that CBS' father or mother firm, Paramount, axed it in honor of the most important milestone.

"In fact, each anniversary has its conventional present. First anniversary is paper, the fifth anniversary is wooden, and the tenth anniversary is cancellation," Colbert teased, drawing boos from the viewers. "Thanks, Paramount, for remembering!"

Watch Colbert audition for The Morning Present within the clip above.

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