Stephen Colbert cleared the air Tuesday about his COVID-19 grudge in opposition to Charles Barkley. (Watch the video beneath.)
“I got a beef with you,” the “Late Show” host informed the “Inside the NBA” analyst, who appeared as a visitor.
Colbert famous he had not seen Barkley within the flesh since “The Late Show” on March 10, 2020.
The host recalled that backstage, he supplied to alternate elbow bumps with Barkley as a substitute of a handshake, for security. Barkley opted for the handshake and Colbert replayed the second they greeted one another onstage.
“Two days later the entire country shuts down,” Colbert stated. “You announce that you might have been exposed to Covid, meaning myself and my family can’t leave our house because we think we might have been exposed to Covid because I’ve been exposed to Covid by you. And we called you everyday for 11 days. And you never called us back. … What the hell, Charles?”
Barkley defined he was caught in a condominium for 10 days ready to get take a look at outcomes and had Angels star Mike Trout and fellow NBA nice Patrick Ewing additionally hounding him.
King, who co-stars with Barkley on CNN’s “King Charles,” reminded her colleague that he may have referred to as Colbert again and informed him he had but to obtain the outcomes.
“Couldn’t he have done that?” King stated to the viewers in a lighthearted shaming of Barkley.
Finally, the Round Mound of Rebound bounced a mea culpa Colbert’s approach.
“I apologize for not calling you back,” Barkley stated as the 2 reached out for a conciliatory handshake.
“See, we can shake hands now,” the retired hoops star gushed.
Colbert, ever the comic, squeezed readily available sanitizer.
Fast-forward to 1:20 for the pandemic flashback:
For the document, Barkley introduced he had examined unfavorable for the virus later that March.
He set off the drama on March 12, a day after the NBA shut down amid participant Rudy Gobert testing optimistic and the World Health Organization’s official declaration that the globe was within the grips of a pandemic. An under-the-weather Barkley referred to as in sick to TNT and acquired examined.
“I’m just kind of in limbo right now. I’m hoping, I’m really hoping, it was just a bug,” Barkley stated on the time.
Colbert hoped the identical factor.
