Posted on 08/02/2025 1:18:31 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Jamie Lee Curtis knows Stephen Colbert has a crush on her husband Christopher Guest. And honestly, she’s “fine with it.”
While visiting to The Late Show on Tuesday, the Freakier Friday star recalled witnessing sparks fly between the late-night host and her husband of 40 years during a Best In Show 25th anniversary panel at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.
“Why were you at the 25th celebration of Best In Show?” Curtis asked, to which Colbert sheepishly replied, “Because I always wanted to meet your husband Christopher Guest. I always wanted to meet him, I’d never met him before.”
Colbert moderated the event, which featured Guest, who directed, co-wrote, and acted in the film, alongside stars Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean, and Michael Hitchcock.
“So, in order to meet my husband, who you’re in love with, you had to, like, work for the panel,” Curtis explained. “So Chris is doing the panel, I’m sitting in the bleachers watching. It’s very funny, you were very funny, you kind of stared at him a lot. You did. Like, a lot of this.”
Curtis then placed her chin on her hands and gazed lovingly at Colbert. “I did,” the host agreed. “I don’t know if you know this, but he’s Christopher Guest!”
The Oscar winner explained that she got a chance to meet Colbert for the very first time after the panel was over. “I introduced myself. I said, 'I’m a hugger.' I said, ‘I’m gonna be on your show,’” she began, to which Colbert replied, “And I said, ‘I know.’”
Not exactly. “No,” Curtis replied. “You actually said, ‘Isn’t he amazing?’”
Colbert immediately turned red in response, covering his face with a hand before leaning back in his chair and laughing. “I mean, but isn’t he?!” he defended, shrugging and holding his hands up in the air.
Curtis went on to give Colbert and Guest’s newfound bond her stamp of approval.
“So let me just say this,” she said. “I’m fine with it. You know what it was like? It’s like watching Love Island. No, seriously, watching your love bloom together, just watching you gaze at him, him loving on you, and the rest of the things just got really quiet and soft-focused, and you guys were just [gazing into each other’s eyes].”
Colbert cheekily responded, “Let me ask you something: Is he here?”
“No!” Curtis remarked. “No, Stephen Colbert, I’m on a Freakier Friday world tour and Mr. Guest is not with me… He is at home with Runi.”
Curtis and Guest tied the knot in December 1984. The couple share two daughters, Annie, 38, and Ruby, 29.
Watch Colbert react to his crush on Guest being called out on national television in the clip above.
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Indeed she did.
Got ‘em from her mom, one would daresay.
A fish called wanda...great movie
Such is the rumor.
Is it true?
How would we know?
Such is the rumor.
Is it true?
How would we know?
I was thinking the 2003 version. I didn’t realize you were going back to the Stone age.
Christopher Guest played the six fingered man in Princess Bride.
Nobody likes him or JLC.
“Heh, I am watching a William Powell, Myrna Loy madcap comedy movie right now on TV, and this thread would fit right into it.!!”
‘I won’t STAY in quarantine. I don’t care WHO gets it!’
"Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be."
I fully understand where my food comes from, and am entirely on board with slaughtering animals so I can eat a steak or pork roast.
But we don't have to be morally rotten and inflict cruelty on them.
Ugh. Sorry, wrong thread. That. post is sure to make some scratch their heads...
I never did either..
Michael McKean played Lenny on Laverne & Shirley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9z3t0J1YBQ
He played David on “This is Spinal Tap”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsz71luPVuE
Christopher Guest played Nigel on “This is Spinal Tap”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSV4OteqBE
Guest also played the man who killed Inigo Montoya’s father in “The Princess Bride”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBC5Z_bH74U
All politics aside, the story of how Guest and Curtis met and married is interesting. She saw a photo of him for “This is Spinal Tap.” She didn’t know him, but she pointed to him in the photo and told her friend she would marry him. Two months later, Guest and Curtis went on their first date, and five months after that date, they were married: https://youtu.be/W3GFltIJVK4?t=386
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