Welcome one and all to The Late Show.

I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you, I'll stand right here.

I just gotta start tonight by thanking everyone here

in the Ed Sullivan Theater for braving a blizzard

to be our audience. Yes. Give yourself a big hand,

and if you lost your hands to frostbite, thump those stumps.

Of course, bravest of all might be me because

this morning, this is true. No vehicles

were allowed in the streets. I walked to work.

Here's footage of my commute.

That moment.

I look angry, but that's when I saw that Duncan was closed.

I actually did get my phone camera out on my way into the office.

It was a lovely walk.

As you can see, I took a shortcut through Narnia.

Half man, half goat met me at a lamp post playing a panpipe.

I think it was a panpipe. Could have been vaping. I don't know.

I ate some Turkish delight. Anyway, experts say this is shaping up to be an historic blizzard.

As of this afternoon, there were almost 20 inches of snow in Central Park,

making this a top 10 snowstorm for the city,

dating back to 1869.

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