“I don’t see a fiddler anywhere…..or a roof.”
Stephen Colbert delighted fans of Fiddler on the Roof Tuesday night when a few members of the audience voiced their confusion during his monologue.”
He doesn’t look anything like Tevye. … What scene is this?” a woman asks her husband. Colbert explains that the broadway performance of Fiddler, currently running at the Broadway Theatre in New York, is directly across the street from where his own show is taped, the Ed Sullivan Theatre. He offers that they walk over there, but the couple seems hesitant, much to the chagrin of their son, Jonah, as seeing Fiddler was his “last wish.”
“Oh my G-d, are you sick?” Colbert asks. “Oh, no,” Jonah’s father replies. “He just makes a lot of wishes, and that was his most recent one.”
Colbert, of course, offers to sing for them, sloppily performing the song Matchmaker before cast-members of the Broadway show come on to stage to help him out.
“We’re going to tell all our Jewish friends from Kansas to come see your show,” Jonah’s father says.
“Maybe we’ll make this a yearly tradition,” replies Colbert, which naturally serves as the segue to Tevye and the gang’s rendition of the classic number Tradition, which Colbert sings in a thick beard and hat.
