Wow – Rocktimus Prime just gave us one heck of a story from his attendance at The Colbert Report taping Tuesday night.

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According to Rocktimus Prime, an interview with Richard Branson was taped Tuesday night to be aired on a later date. Here’s how he describes what happened.

I haven’t posted a recap anywhere else, but I’ll spill it here first. Branson was apparently upset that he wasn’t able to give a direct plug to the new Virgin service and doused Colbert with his guest mug of water. Stephen was DRENCHED. He took a beat, then signalled for his own “ammunition” for about twenty seconds until Alison (Silverman) ran and gave him her bottle of water, and Stephen retaliated. The two of them sat for a VERY uncomfortable second looking like two wet cats. Then Stephen thanked him for coming. I really don’t think it was planned, since Stephen had another bit to introduce (the American Samoa Better Know a Protectorate) and a full interview left to do. They had to get him a new jacket and even broke out a blowdryer. Everyone in the crew had a “WTF?” reaction.

Perhaps Sir Richard thought “Hair Colbert” needed christening?

Thanks for the tip, RP!

UPDATE: After some urging in the comments, Rocktimus Prime gave us a few more details:

I forget what the “trigger” was exactly. Let me back up a bit and say that for the first part of the interview Stephen tried to get Branson to sign an IOU for $1 million. Branson was trying to squirm out of signing it. He made the big mistake of trying to appeal to the audience, like “Do you think someone like him really needs a million dollars?”, which made the crowd go BERSERK. Apparently, he was unaware that you don’t try to turn the Nation against Stephen.

I didn’t catch all of what he was saying before the water throw, but it was something along the lines of how he’d been sitting there all that time and didn’t get the chance to say why he was on the show, which confused us and Stephen a little, because it was pretty clear from the top that he was hawking Air Colbert as part of Virgin’s new American service.

There were also some questions about “confirming” this… A confirming report can be found here and here, from Ian Bogost, the guest from Tuesday night’s episode.

[Edit: According to The Late night TV Page, Richard Branson is scheduled to be a guest on the show on August 22nd.]

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