Jaytheradical , I agree 100%. That was impressive! I was disappointed at the voice though, I felt like it took away from the sheer awesomeness of the whole effect. If I lived in the States, I would love to go see that show, purely to see Kong in action. 🦍
It’s facial movements are animatronics, but the movement of the body isn’t. Someone else down the comments section linked an NYT article about how it works.
@@Tustin2121 Actually even the FACE is live - there are (I think) 3 people working backstage (they have a "bow" at the end of the show when the camera project an image of them) - even the sounds that are made, breath, roar, etc. are done live!! I know people who are working on this & I got to take a close-up look last summer. He's an absolutely gorgeous, complicated puppet!
I wonder if it is automated and controlled by computer. After all you can use motion capture to have instant feedback and control a virtual avatar, so it seems like just a short step to having motion capture manipulate a real physical avatar.
Respect for Sonny Tilders and his creature effects shop. They also created the animatronic dinosaurs for the Walking With Dinosaurs arena show and the dragons for the How to Train Your Dragon arena show.
Mr . Colbert you truly are a national treasure for you fellow citizens. I kind of envy them for having such a wonderful comedian. Love your show 💞 hopefully my family will take a vacation to New York Next year so I finally get my dream of watching your show live.
Terra shine , I agree. I live in Australia, but it would be an absolute dream to see this show live. Stephen Colbert is truly one of my favourite people. Sigh
Yeah he’s funny and all and idk but maybe a good guy deep down but he’s a liberal puppet who says the same joke about our President every show, nothing original about that. If you live in America it’s not hard to see how much of a worm he is. He also contradicts himself when it comes to politics. Watch Ben Shapiros take on him, I’m sure that will give you some good insight. God bless.
@@benmoore2855, yes thank you dear. We shall be sure to take your opinion into consideration, giving it all the weight it deserves. Tell me, which podcasts on Republican Broadcasting Network do you prefer? --Dave, who is pretty sure where you're getting fed your points from, and it's not mainstream media, even though Colbert _is_
Is that really what Kong looks like? There's no effects involved in this video? WOW, that looks amazing!! How the hell does that thing work?? It looks so good.
No effects. It takes 15 or so people to operate Kong. This article has some footage of how he works..... www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/theater/king-kong-broadway-musical.html
Justin M , thank you for that link. It was fascinating to watch Kong’s movements, his facial expressions even micro expressions. Just unbelievable how they did it and they made him so incredibly lifelike. Those 14-15 people who “operate” Kong must also be incredibly talented and extremely fit and strong. I watched each clip over and over again until I had seen each individual, including Kong of course, do their part to make each movement work and look realistic. It was like art itself or like a dance to see everyone move this way and that, to pull and push, or jump on Kong himself in order to make him move in a certain way. It was like it’s own show, to watch these people constantly in motion to get every movement work and look lifelike and realistic. It just blew my mind, in the best way. I really wish it was a show that I could go and watch. If I saw it advertised, without having seen Kong and what he can do, I probably wouldn’t even think about going to see it. But now that I have seen Kong, I would go, just to watch him and those that assist him to move. Hopefully the show will come back to Australia some day.
I used to think a Hobbit stage adaptation would be impossible, because how could you realise Smaug properly onstage... now, thoroughly convinced it's possible. Someone get on that!
The comic invention of this show is absolutely astounding and inspiring - always surprises. Thought the voice of the person playing "Queen" Kong sounded a bit like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror show.
@@mickeysmyspiritanimal223 he seems more like Kent to me. in the comics ('70s I believe) Clark Kent did host a new show! in either case, Kent or Stark both are pretty funny!
There's also the cartoon squirrel - as spokes-critter for technology that will allow TV commercials to "watch" (and interact with) VIEWERS - he 'interviewed', an interview that grew increasingly "threatening" as it went on.
Although in this case it's actually more puppetry than animatronics. Someone higher up in this comments section posted a link to an article about the crew of 15 puppeteers who operate Kong for the show.
This Queen Kong is of course WAY better in animatronic design and movement, but did anyone else think of the mid 90s show ‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ on Nickelodeon when they saw this? Different species, I know, but perhaps it is the gray, stone like coloring that brought me back.
This is amazing! It looks like an animated creature in real life?! Not gonna lie, part of me was expecting that Dame Kong would panic after saying “Macbeth” out loud. Guess apes aren’t superstitious.
It makes me think of some fantasy books where King and Queen signify roles and jobs, not genders. Queens are male or female but have vastly different duties than Kings, that kind of thing. I wish it was! It would be more interesting!
That’s all puppetry! There were two controlling the shoulder, one on the mouth and voice, and the rest of the body was done by 10 puppeteers. It was a wild show.
Cue Robbin Williams with English accent; I have sojourned for extended periods in the proper pursuit of my classical training! In the various theatre of only the highest pedigree...
It was actually scary.. to see the 2 bouncers standing there when Colbert exits, and the lady in blue whose job seems to be staring at the audience to immediately crush any unapropriate behavior...
Dame Kong is an amazing piece of strings and machinery.
That might be one of the best puppets I've seen since Jurassic Park. 100/10.
Jaytheradical , I agree 100%. That was impressive! I was disappointed at the voice though, I felt like it took away from the sheer awesomeness of the whole effect.
If I lived in the States, I would love to go see that show, purely to see Kong in action. 🦍
@@leannepaxton5012
Wasn't the voice supposed to be a joke? Is it the same high pitched voice in the actual show?
@@FreakieFan Yes, the voice was meant as a joke. King Kong doesn't speak at all
It takes 23 people to operate it. It's spectacular.
That’s an impressive animatronic, it reminds me of the old King Kong ride at Universal.
Technically that's not an animatronic at all, but yeah.
It’s facial movements are animatronics, but the movement of the body isn’t. Someone else down the comments section linked an NYT article about how it works.
David Avocado I loved that ride!
rip old king kong, he's a crispy piece of metal now
@@Tustin2121 Actually even the FACE is live - there are (I think) 3 people working backstage (they have a "bow" at the end of the show when the camera project an image of them) - even the sounds that are made, breath, roar, etc. are done live!! I know people who are working on this & I got to take a close-up look last summer. He's an absolutely gorgeous, complicated puppet!
1:46 You may be important, but have you ever been "customized parking cones" important?
Just to walk across a street...
That mofo is astonishingly good, heck of a good combo of puppetry and animatronics, it must blow people’s minds when that walks on stage
I wonder if it is automated and controlled by computer. After all you can use motion capture to have instant feedback and control a virtual avatar, so it seems like just a short step to having motion capture manipulate a real physical avatar.
Sutibu San I would say the face was pre-programmed, but it’s just a guess
Walk? Hah, no, I don't think so.
Doran Martell true, I’m not sure it even has legs, but if it does, a couple of rods, could be done
@@Scarletraven87 it walks, runs and fights a huge snake onstage.
Anyone else catch the cameo performance of Stephen’s “man who cannot walk down steps” at 1:24? 😆
wow... this looks so lifelike... I didn't know there were such huge, life like puppets in the theater... it really looks stunning 😮
Respect for Sonny Tilders and his creature effects shop. They also created the animatronic dinosaurs for the Walking With Dinosaurs arena show and the dragons for the How to Train Your Dragon arena show.
That is an amazing feat of puppetry.
Wow.
Wow, Queen Kong is amazingly life like! Love the size!
Mr . Colbert you truly are a national treasure for you fellow citizens.
I kind of envy them for having such a wonderful comedian.
Love your show 💞 hopefully my family will take a vacation to New York Next year so I finally get my dream of watching your show live.
Terra shine , I agree. I live in Australia, but it would be an absolute dream to see this show live.
Stephen Colbert is truly one of my favourite people. Sigh
That's what I wish too. Coming to you from the Caribbean
Yeah he’s funny and all and idk but maybe a good guy deep down but he’s a liberal puppet who says the same joke about our President every show, nothing original about that. If you live in America it’s not hard to see how much of a worm he is. He also contradicts himself when it comes to politics. Watch Ben Shapiros take on him, I’m sure that will give you some good insight. God bless.
@@benmoore2855, yes thank you dear. We shall be sure to take your opinion into consideration, giving it all the weight it deserves. Tell me, which podcasts on Republican Broadcasting Network do you prefer?
--Dave, who is pretty sure where you're getting fed your points from, and it's not mainstream media, even though Colbert _is_
(2:29-2:31) Don't eat me, Mr. Kong. LOL
So how do you plan on defeating Godzilla?
By gaining magical lightning powers like his ancestors (i swear to Godzilla if they do that again im gonna flip and burn that theater down)
Prayers and rocks
Simple: just like last time, Kong just has to stick a tree in GZ's throat to get the win.
With a killer Broadway musical performance.
@@EugeneAxe you've won it all
02:06 "hello,anybody?" "Open your mind, it's 2019..." Looool
Is that really what Kong looks like? There's no effects involved in this video?
WOW, that looks amazing!! How the hell does that thing work?? It looks so good.
No effects. It takes 15 or so people to operate Kong.
This article has some footage of how he works.....
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/theater/king-kong-broadway-musical.html
@@justinm2697
Wow, thanks for sharing! Amazing.
Justin M , thank you for that link. It was fascinating to watch Kong’s movements, his facial expressions even micro expressions. Just unbelievable how they did it and they made him so incredibly lifelike. Those 14-15 people who “operate” Kong must also be incredibly talented and extremely fit and strong. I watched each clip over and over again until I had seen each individual, including Kong of course, do their part to make each movement work and look realistic. It was like art itself or like a dance to see everyone move this way and that, to pull and push, or jump on Kong himself in order to make him move in a certain way. It was like it’s own show, to watch these people constantly in motion to get every movement work and look lifelike and realistic. It just blew my mind, in the best way.
I really wish it was a show that I could go and watch. If I saw it advertised, without having seen Kong and what he can do, I probably wouldn’t even think about going to see it. But now that I have seen Kong, I would go, just to watch him and those that assist him to move.
Hopefully the show will come back to Australia some day.
Justin M thanks for sharing the link, that was a great article 👍
The puppetry in “The Lion King” was enjoyable, too, though not nearly as complex!
Kong is cool, but not as badass as the guy who got a sneaky handshake in at 1:35
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue
Dame kong
😋👍😄
Eighth Wonder of the World, people! Bow to the king!
This got to be one of the most memorable interviews on Late Night. From Stephen's theatrical walk to King Kong's gender bender roars.
I can’t believe how good the puppet is! It’s just so expressive
Let's all agree on one thing: if Godzilla vs. Kong isn't a musical, we all riot.
Love this 'Kong meets California Raisin' puppet...sweeeeeet
Holy shit there's a King Kong *musical*?!
That Special Effects crew deserves ALL the awards! ALL OF THEM!
People think of Stephen Colbert as a real Dork, but you have to admit he is one funny Dork.
I used to think a Hobbit stage adaptation would be impossible, because how could you realise Smaug properly onstage... now, thoroughly convinced it's possible. Someone get on that!
What the heck Dame Kong you can't quote the Scottish play in a theatre!
Easily one of the BEST Broadway shows I’ve ever seen. I’m so sad it closed 😢
I actually had to google king kong musical to see if it's a real show and wow. I'm surprised they made it into a musical that's so cool
Anyone clicked on this video because they thought the title said "Steven Colbert meets Kim Jong Un"??
The comic invention of this show is absolutely astounding and inspiring - always surprises. Thought the voice of the person playing "Queen" Kong sounded a bit like Tim Curry in Rocky Horror show.
Bravo! to Stephen for knowing to use the word Brava! Not everyone understands the difference.
The kong puppet is amazing!!!
King Kong ain't got shit on me!
it finally happened King Kong meets Clark Kent...
henkman00, or Iron Man! 🤣
@@mickeysmyspiritanimal223
that's why you never see King Kong and Tony Stark in the same room together...
henkman00 Stephen Colbert looks like Tony Stark to me! 🏰🎡🎢🍿🚝👸🏽😎
@@mickeysmyspiritanimal223
he seems more like Kent to me. in the comics ('70s I believe) Clark Kent did host a new show! in either case, Kent or Stark both are pretty funny!
Colbert is so cute!! ❤️❤️
Wow, what an amazing puppet!
Almost sounded like the office theme song.
1:25 stephen stole cap's shield from falcon
he's had cap's shield forever!
@@juliaconnell nah, hes actually secretly a skrull, and pretended to be falcon to steal the shield.
No, he was given the shield. He's worthy of one.
@@chrissiek8706 But can Colbert lift Mjölnir?
Did he say Kong weighs 2000lbs? A horse weighs 2000lbs, Kong would be more like 20,000lbs.
Hooooow is that puppet made? :O It's incredible!
Stephen: *walks*
Everyone: YEAAAH YEAAAAAAHHHHH
Marvel should have Avengers Endgame on Broadway so Robert Downey Jr can win a Tony for Best Tony.
I saw the show back in November 2019 and it was GREAT! This is how I got interested in kaijus
King Kong was awesome.
I love some nice puppeteering .
Kong is so amazing looking.
The music makes me feel like I'm watching the Office.
Is this the second fictional character Colbert has ever interviewed?
I remember his interview with Smaug ^_^
@@adpirtle 👀
@@adpirtle he sort of works at the show, so, not exactly an interview, more like occasional interaction with a coworker?
Don't forget Cartoon Trump.
There's also the cartoon squirrel - as spokes-critter for technology that will allow TV commercials to "watch" (and interact with) VIEWERS - he 'interviewed', an interview that grew increasingly "threatening" as it went on.
This animatronics is amazin. I wonder how they manage to move the whole thing that fast.
la la la la la *ROAR*
animatronics have come a long long way..
Although in this case it's actually more puppetry than animatronics. Someone higher up in this comments section posted a link to an article about the crew of 15 puppeteers who operate Kong for the show.
Amazing piece of technology. On par with the Maleficent dragon puppet in Disneyland
This Queen Kong is of course WAY better in animatronic design and movement, but did anyone else think of the mid 90s show ‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ on Nickelodeon when they saw this? Different species, I know, but perhaps it is the gray, stone like coloring that brought me back.
Wow!! 😄 Dame Kong
This is amazing! It looks like an animated creature in real life?!
Not gonna lie, part of me was expecting that Dame Kong would panic after saying “Macbeth” out loud. Guess apes aren’t superstitious.
You can say the name in a theatre if you're referring to the characters, just not the title of the play :)
didn't know king kong was British. LOL!!!!
4:08, 4:30 That Kong, (s)he's quite the singer
Wow- that's truly impressive!
Someone: King Kong is outdated should change to Queen Kong
It makes me think of some fantasy books where King and Queen signify roles and jobs, not genders. Queens are male or female but have vastly different duties than Kings, that kind of thing. I wish it was! It would be more interesting!
Wait.... that Kong was all puppetry? I swear the mouth at least looked CGI
th-cam.com/video/xPlb4rlBrtw/w-d-xo.html
That’s all puppetry! There were two controlling the shoulder, one on the mouth and voice, and the rest of the body was done by 10 puppeteers.
It was a wild show.
Tell the writers to pass the bong over, Stephen.
Wonderful puppetry going on
2:07 Yeah there is someone there, its the camera man.
A couple of delightful hams!
Love it 😍❤️
That awkward moment when Colbert just walks completely off set.
Hello from the Netherlands early people!
Goeiemorgen!
Mogge
I can't sleep ,Nim late people but high too , from North of Chicago...have a graNde daze..!.
You should turn that into a thing like Batman
Penny and put it into your show background
2:13 - 2:28 guess the queen had a busy day during one of her last shows
Cue Robbin Williams with English accent;
I have sojourned for extended periods in the proper pursuit of my classical training! In the various theatre of only the highest pedigree...
walks across the street like Mr. Bean
What an interview
I wish I had King Kong as a pet to keep me safe!
Special effects in theatre have come a long way.
2:19 Nice! Cobra Kai in the Broadway Theatre.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
That puppet is astounding. Holy shit.
Om god the Kong doesn’t have a voice during the show and i love how they made him talk for this lol
Kong is seriously impressive. Must have taken some effort to put it together
I only bend the knee to one Queen of the Monsters and her name is Mothra.
fun fact: in in William Shakespeare's time, all women's roles were played by men
Wow!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
It was actually scary.. to see the 2 bouncers standing there when Colbert exits, and the lady in blue whose job seems to be staring at the audience to immediately crush any unapropriate behavior...
Can you give me some Walken music please? Christopher.
We've... got to... get AWTE... of here!
Hm, Christopher Walken music?
Here you go...
th-cam.com/video/wCDIYvFmgW8/w-d-xo.html
@@mori1bund GMTA! Thanks.
I adore you for this
Whoa I hope they come to Portland, OR
I was passing out last night & legit thought Kong was CGI
That was so delightfully stupid! Lol
*He's right you know, he could play Caesar*
Beauty and the Beast.....literally.😃😏
Trump will soon be big enough to play the understudy. He just needs a few more slices of that
b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l chocolate cake.
That's amazing.
Maybe you could have sung with Dame Kong " there's nothing like a Dame"
I loved Ruth Wilson in King Lear so much I wanted to give her my coat during the storm scene.
Oh my God can you imagine how big King Kong Dong is?
Never change, internet
Was that an... Overwatch reference?
SHIT, THAT's TERRIFYING DUDE!
It's also 4:19am so that MAKES IT WORSE! XD
Giant King Kong Puppet AND "Furry Costume For The Morbidly Obese"
Is this laura benanti??? 😂😂😂