Stephen Colbert puts on his pants and tells jokes before his studio audience for the 1st time in 460 days

All the late-night TV hosts struggled to adapt to doing their comedy shows without a live audience. Some of them have since returned to their stages — The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon has a live audience again and Jimmy Kimmel Live populates his theater with staff, mostly — while others are still telling jokes straight to the camera, like The Daily Show's Trevor Noah. The Late Show's Stephen Colbert, whose comedy does better out of a vacuum, returned to his Ed Sullivan Theater with a live audience for Monday's show — and he almost forgot his pants.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.