--- title: Stephen Colbert Undercover Sells Hot Dogs at Cubs Game description: To celebrate the Cubs having the best record in the MLB, Stephen Colbert recently went undercover as a hot dog vendor at Wrigley Field. canonical: https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-24T19:46:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:57.299Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Went Undercover to Sell Hot Dogs at a Chicago Cubs Game og:description: He was a big fan-favorite og:url: https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Went Undercover to Sell Hot Dogs at a Chicago Cubs Game twitter:description: He was a big fan-favorite twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Went Undercover to Sell Hot Dogs at a Chicago Cubs Game  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 24, 2016 7:46 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 24, 2016 7:46 PM UTC To celebrate the Cubs having the best record in the [MLB](http://time.com/4281876/baseball-game-price-stadium/?utm%5Fsource=feedburner&utm%5Fmedium=feed&utm%5Fcampaign=Feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fcurious%5Fcapitalist+%28TIME%3A+Business%29), former Chicagoan [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4502764/michelle-obama-stephen-colbert/) recently went undercover as a hot dog vendor to interact with fans at [Wrigley Field](http://time.com/4288701/wrigley-weeghman-cubs-1916/). In a clip that was shown during Thursday night’s episode of _The Late Show_, the host donned a disguise of sunglasses, a fake goatee and a baseball cap with fake hair to try his hand at peddling the park’s franks. After playing a game of hot dog catch with Cubs outfielder Kyle Schwarber, Colbert entered the stands ready to start his shift. And with selling points such as, “Life is short, we could die at any minute, who wants a hot dog?,” people had a difficult time saying no. Watch the video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Went Undercover to Sell Hot Dogs at a Chicago Cubs Game","datePublished":"2016-09-24T19:46:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:57.299Z","description":"He was a big fan-favorite","url":"https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Baseball","stephen colbert","TV","the late show","Chicago Cubs","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4506223/stephen-colbert-undercover-chicago-cubs/","name":"Stephen Colbert Went Undercover to Sell Hot Dogs at a Chicago Cubs Game"}}]}] ```