Tom Hanks recently gave a couple of birthday gifts to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show and teased the host by saying that he would write a new résumé after the show ends. Colbert is scheduled to bid adieu to his popular talk show on May 21 after eleven successful seasons.
Tom Hanks teases Stephen Colbert about updating his résumé after Late Show’s end
Tom Hanks joked that Stephen Colbert would update his résumé after The Late Show concludes. Hanks appeared on the show on May 13, which also happened to be Colbert’s birthday. The 69-year-old actor came bearing gifts for Colbert for “some serious résumé writing.” Hanks guested on the show to promote his new History Channel documentary, World War II With Tom Hanks.
The Oscar winner gifted him a box of dot matrix paper. Hanks said, “This is great paper that’s always connected… It’s not enough to have great paper. You need a tool with which to use that paper, and you’re going to be doing some serious résumé writing and what have you.” Not only that, Hanks also presented Colbert with a classic machine from Underwood, and also tossed in a bag of his Hanks Coffee as well.
Earlier in the segment, The Forrest Gump star had also given the birthday boy a ream of paper bearing the CBS logo. The Oscar winner told Colbert, “Dude, you’re moving on, and there is so much stuff to steal from the offices right now. They’re never going to miss it.”
Colbert has already secured his next work after wrapping The Late Show. He has been recruited to pen the next film in The Lord of the Rings franchise. Interestingly, Peter Jackson revealed in a new interview that the show host pitched a new LOTR movie before CBS cancelled The Late Show.
Jackson told Variety, “He phoned me up a year ago — before he knew his show was going to finish — and said, ‘I don’t know if you’re interesting [sic], but I’ve got an idea for a Tolkien movie based on the books that I think would be really good.’”
Originally reported by Anwaya Mane on Mandatory.
