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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Bill Hader Inspired Stephen Colbert’s Decision to Write a Lord of the Rings Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert shocked people when he recently announced his next
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  Speaker 2: gig after he says goodbye to The Late Show is
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  Speaker 2: going to be writing a new Lord of the Rings movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is obviously still a very high profile job,
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  Speaker 3: but one that some critics perceived as a step back
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  Speaker 3: for a guy who's hosted any major talk show.
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  Speaker 1: But it now sounds like Steven is very happy with
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  Speaker 1: his decision based on what he said on the SmartLess
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  Speaker 1: podcast when they asked him what he was going to
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  Speaker 1: do next.
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  Speaker 2: So he actually tracked that episode before he announced his
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  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings job, so he was kind of
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  Speaker 2: coy about details, but he mentioned how much he admired
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  Speaker 2: the unexpected career pivot of another comic, and that's Bill Hayter.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, as we know, Bill famously left SNL back in
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  Speaker 3: like what twenty thirteen with the World of his Feet,
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  Speaker 3: but rather than chase the movie stardom or something like that,
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  Speaker 3: he actually went back to his prior job writing and
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  Speaker 3: doing voiceover work for South Park for one more season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And Colbert was saying that this is the perfect
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  Speaker 2: thing to do, serve something that you love already be
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  Speaker 2: of service of people who's work. Don't even worry about
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  Speaker 2: the status of your previous KIG. Just do something you love.
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  Speaker 2: Stevens a final episode of The Late Show that's on
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  Speaker 2: CBS May twenty first, that's
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  Speaker 3: Direct from Hollywood.