Stephen Colbert hosts David Hallberg from the American Ballet Theater, first American to perform with Moscow’s legendary Bolshoi Ballet, and joins him and Hee Seo in a selection from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. Not uproarious, but you have to give Colbert credit here — better ballet chops than you’d expect from a stand-up comic!
Which reminds me of an old Smothers Brothers bit that believe it or not was fought by the CBS censors back in the late 60s:
Tom (as a Volga boatman): Russia has a great ballet.
Dick: Bolshoi…
Tom: No, Dicky, really they do.
Thanks to Riley Kellogg for the link.
