{"id":459818,"date":"2026-05-21T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459818\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:19:23","slug":"watch-david-byrne-burn-down-the-house-with-stephen-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/459818\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch David Byrne Burn Down the House With Stephen Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you missed it, CBS is pulling the plug on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this Thursday despite its high ratings, seemingly due to political pressure<\/a> from President Donald J Trump. As Stephen Colbert stares down his final days hosting the show, he\u2019s organized extra special programming for the week-long farewell, including last night\u2019s (May 19) fiery live performance of \u201cBurning Down the House\u201d with David Byrne<\/a>. What began with the Talking Heads<\/a> frontman on acoustic guitar evolved into a full-band affair on the TV stage, complete with Colbert joining the group to sing and dance along. Watch a replay below.<\/p>\n

Colbert and Byrne go way back, at least as far as his time hosting The Late Show goes. Before they bust out that live rendition from 1983\u2019s Speaking in Tongues<\/a>, the host had Byrne on to discuss his new album, Who Is the Sky?<\/a>, and play a song<\/a> this past March; perform<\/a> an American Utopia<\/a> cut back in 2018 followed by a dance tutorial<\/a> behind its Broadway adaptation<\/a> in 2021; and reunite all four members of Talking Heads on Colbert\u2019s couch for a rare interview<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

Who Is the Sky? is Byrne\u2019s ninth studio album, with the entire record being written and performed with the New York ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. They\u2019ve been playing nonstop in support of that new album and they\u2019re nearing the end of that extensive world tour<\/a>. Byrne still has a run across Europe left, though, which includes festival performances at Roskilde, Mad Cool, and Latitude.<\/p>\n

Read about Byrne in The 66 Most Anticipated Tours of Spring 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you missed it, CBS is pulling the plug on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282,644],"class_list":["post-459818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}