Stephen Colbert Reveals NSFW Graphics and Cut Sketches in ‘Worst of the Late Show’ Episode

With only a few episodes left behind the desk of “The Late Show,” Stephen Colbert dedicated Monday’s show to the segments, sketches and graphics that never made it to air.

“We definitely have enough material for a ‘Best of’ clip show, but y’all got YouTube — you do it,” Colbert quipped in a laid-back monologue. “We thought it’d be more fun to show you stuff we made but never aired and call it ‘The Worst of the Late Show,’ though technically what you’re about to see is still the best worst stuff we ever made.”

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As is tradition during “The Late Show” rehearsal, Colbert ate steamed chicken out of a to-go container while performing in front of his staff. “If you see anything you don’t like, it’s their fault!” the host said.

One old sketch Colbert debuted for the first time on air was a parody commercial for a product called Erotic Body Gravy, to be used for post-Thanksgiving dinner sex.

“When I watched it, I said ‘Those actors are way too attractive for comedy.’ You guys ended up just making softcore gravy porn,” Colbert said. To make matters worse: “Unbeknownst to me at the time — or anyone else — my appendix had already burst before rehearsal and was leaking poisonous bile into my abdominal cavity.”

In one segment, the “Graphics Graveyard,” Colbert and his art director Andro Buneta revived a variety of graphics that died before making it to air. Among them: a Thanksgiving porn magazine called Giblets; “The Giving Tree” book cover but the tree is wearing bondage gear and the title is “The Very Giving Tree”; and a Hillary Clinton 45th President image. “Oh, grow up! It all worked out fine,” Colbert joked.

Colbert also welcomed back a character named Shrieking Joe, a Kid Rock-esque political candidate whose two appearances on “The Late Show” led to an unprecedented minute-to-minute ratings drop, according to a CBS executive.

And he sang a song that never made it to air with “Late Show” writer Michael Cruz Kayne. The duet was “It’s Raining Fish,” a song to the tune of “It’s Raining Men” and a pitch that Colbert rejected four times over the years. Here’s the gist: “It’s raining fish / Bluefin tuna, my favorite dish.”

Colbert closed the episode with a heartfelt note directed to his staff: “We never could’ve made all that terrible stuff — as well as some of the good stuff we showed you — without the amazing people in this room. This staff is so brilliant, collaborative, so creative and so kind.”

Then he urged audiences to tune in to his final three episodes, promising, “They’ll be better than this!”