find out tonight in. >> stephen colbert, wax on and wax off at madame tussaud the. i sat down with the art frist madame tussauds so i could get waxed. >> just leave a landing strip, okay, do that for me? they walked me through their painstaking process. >> when they make your figure they will insert every hair in your figure's individually, every eye lash, every eyebrow, it takes six weeks. >> that's fantastic. >> isn't it. >> i'm so glad that effort isn't going into curing cancer. >> if you have a tattoo somewhere we want to re-create that. >> i do. i have a black panther crawling out of my butt crack. >> that's awesome. >> it says welcome to the lair and the panther is going-- so you have a box of eyeball its. >> we do. >> do these come from chinese prisoners. >> they are glass, what are you talking about. >> i don't know what chinese people are made of. i have no idea. (laughter) next i slipped into something more revealing so they could measure my every nook and cranny. (cheers and applause) i feel dirty. >> so dan, how did you get this job. >> i'm the general m

unlike most museums, at madame tussauds, you're invited to touch the exhibits.you call this an interactive attraction. why? >> we encourage our guests to get as close as they want. they can hug, they can kiss the figures. there's plenty of kisses on justin bieber. take as many pictures as you want. it's a lot of fun. >> do you have a favorite? >> johnny depp. >> did you lay one on him? >> i gave him a hug. [ laughs ] >> the exhibits get a lot of personal attention, and that takes a toll. although all of the figures are made in madame tussauds london studio, it's up to the staff here to take care of them. so, early in the morning, before visitors arrive, technicians like emily make the rounds. she checks the hair of heroes like civil-rights champion rosa parks, makes sure eli manning and carmelo anthony are ready for action, fixes brad pitt's tie, and -- oh, yeah -- removes all that lipstick from george clooney's cheeks. >> on a daily basis, the most popular figures, like clooney, brad pitt, johnny depp, they got kissed all over, so they got lipstick on their fac

(narrator) sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussaud's. other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. (dorothy kosinski) i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artist's sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame? (narrator) henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. his career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to study at the royal college of art in london, a bastion of academic formalism. but he found his real inspiration on the other side of london at the british museum. he visited twice a week for years, drawing objects from the museum's vast ethnographic collection, and drawing inspiration from them that would hava lifelong impact on his work. (henry morre) primitive art makes a straightforward statement. its primary concern is with the elemental and its simplicity comes from a direct and strong feeling, which is very different from being simple for the sake of being simple, which

[ laughter ] >> jimmy: we just picked him up from madame tussauds. >> steve: are you serious?ghter ] >> jimmy: yeah. 's great. >> sh a realistic guy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, now he's busted. >> steve: that smile could charm a thousand ships. [ light laughter ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, people who say "you had to be there" after telling a story, for basically saying, "turns out, my story sucked." [ laughter ] oh, you had to be there. >> steve: forget it. >> jimmy: you knew i wasn't there, so why would you tell me? >> steve: yeah, why would you tell me the story? thank you for boring me. yeah, you had to be there. >> jimmy: no, i didn't. >> steve: no, i didn't. glad i wasn't. >> jimmy: yeah. ♪ thank you, real estate brokers, for charging thousands of dollars to basically just go, "how 'bout that one?" [ laughter ] >> steve: "nope?" >> jimmy: "that one?" [ applause ] "how 'bout this one?" >> steve: "nope, forget it." ♪ >> jimmy: thank you, chuck todd, brian williams and david gregory, for proving that, to be a trusted news anchor, all you need are two first names. [ laughter ] yo

(narrator) sculpture made him famous, his celebrity enshrined in wax at madame tussaud's. other celebrities bought his works and enjoyed his company. (dorothy kosinski) i actually think that one has to consider quite seriously a very intriguing dilemma, and that is whether an artist's sense of direction and value and worth is that potentially obscured by fame? (narrator) henry moore was born in the mining town of castleford in 1898. his career began in 1921 when he left yorkshire with a scholarship to study at the royal college of art in london, a bastion of academic formalism. but he found his real inspiration on the other side of london at the british museum. he visited twice a week for years, drawing objects from the museum's vast ethnographic collection, and drawing inspiration from them that would have a lifelong impact on his work. (henry morre) primitive art makes a straightforward statement. its primary concern is with the elemental and its simplicity comes from a direct and strong feeling, which is very different from being simple for the sake of being simple, whi