Who is on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight, December 5th?

Stephen Colbert will welcome an actor, a TV host and an author on tonight’s The Late Show.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will have its first full week of episodes in two weeks beginning tonight with guests Jason Bateman, Padma Lakshmi and Michael Lewis. The CBS show recently took some time off due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but returned last Wednesday night.

Bateman will be on to promote his new comedy Office Christmas Party, in which he stars opposite Olivia Munn, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon, TJ Miller and Jennifer Aniston, who he has worked with in four prior movies, including The Switch, The Break-Up, Horrible Bosses and its sequel. The film, opening in theaters on Dec. 9, centers on a struggling Chicago tech firm that secretly throws an epic office Christmas party in an effort to woo a potential client and close a deal that will save their jobs. This will mark the Arrested Development actor’s first interview with Colbert.

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Next, the comedian will talk to Lakshmi, host of the long-running Bravo cooking competition reality show Top Chef, which recently entered its 14th season. The newest edition pits returning fan favorites against rookie competitors. The series has added Graham Elliot of MasterChef fame to the judges’ table this season. This will also be Lakshmi’s first time on The Late Show.

Lastly, Lewis — best known for writing the books The Big Short, The Blind Side and Moneyball — will be on to discuss his latest non-fiction novel, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, which surrounds the collaboration between two Israeli psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who wrote a series of original studies undoing the assumptions about the decision-making process. Lewis has sat down with the host several times, including on his Comedy Central series The Colbert Report. During his last Late Show appearance, he explained why the 2008 bank bailout was a mistake.

Other upcoming guests this week include Sigourney Weaver, DJ Khaled, Andy Cohen, Octavia Spencer, Munn, Martin Freeman and Vice President Joe Biden, who talked about the death of his son, Beau, during an emotional visit last September, but this time he will be on to discuss the election results.

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Full Late Show guests lineup for week of Dec. 5:

Monday, Dec. 5th: Jason Bateman, Padma Lakshmi and Michael Lewis
Tuesday, Dec. 6th: Vice President Joe Biden, DJ Khaled
Wednesday, Dec. 7th: Sigourney Weaver, Andy Cohen and Pilobolus
Thursday, Dec. 8th: Octavia Spencer, Travis Scott
Friday, Dec. 9th: Olivia Munn, Martin Freeman and Tom Papa

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on CBS.

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