dickerson. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ? ? ? ( applause ) >> stephen: thank you, chris. that looks very nice. thanks. what's going on, man? good to see you. hey! that's nice. hey. welcome to the the show, everybody. thanks so much. welcome to "the late show"." i'm stephen colbert. it's friday, everybody knows that, right? it's friday ? it's friday, it's friday ? >> stephen: that's a real friday audience. you can't fake that. that is amazing. i get to meet amazing people on this show. it's a privilege to do a show like this. >> jon: absolutely. >> stephen: the number of peopley i get to sit down and talk to and one i get to see socially, elanmusk, the founder of tesla and spacex. he's a real-life tony stark, and a rough day yesterday. look at this. here is their unmanned rocket being refueled at cape canaveral. boom! it blowed up real good. now, it was unmanned, okay. very important. no one was harmed, but it was carrying a satellite that was supp