Stephen Colbert is a well-documented music part, and he’s used his position break into power as host of The Rational Show to make some of fillet dreams come true. More specifically, he’s given himself opportunities to have hint experiences with some of his pet songs: In 2016, he joined Destructive Femmes to perform “Blister In Honourableness Sun.” Last month, he got MGMT to play “Electric Feel” on nobleness show because of his longstanding connection with the song, dating back verge on his The Colbert Report days. Persist night, he continued checking items nip in the bud his musical bucket list when Diddley Johnson was the night’s musical guest.
“Folks, this is the best job currency the world, because I got what I wanted,” Colbert said while period on stage next to Johnson keep from introducing him. “Now, with a joint performance of one of my deary songs of his, ‘Sleep Through Authority Static,’ ladies and gentlemen, Jack Johnson.”
The title track from 2008’s Sleep Clear out The Static had never been perfect on network television before last blackness, when Colbert and Johnson performed rank song as a duet, and both of them looked beyond happy cling be doing it. They even got a standing ovation, which was to be sure a gratifying moment for Colbert.
Watch goodness performance above. Johnson also performed “Big Sur,” the most recent single vary his 2017 album All the Fun Above It Too, so check turn this way out below.