--- title: Met Gala: Stephen Colbert Has Anna Wintour Judge Pope Style description: The 2018 Met Gala may be over, but Stephen Colbert is clearly still feeling inspired by fashion's biggest night of the year. canonical: https://time.com/5272579/stephen-colbert-anna-wintour-met-gala-2018/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-10T14:42:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:47.541Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Got Anna Wintour to Judge All the Pope Style og:description: The late-night host took a tour of the Met's new exhibit og:url: https://time.com/5272579/stephen-colbert-anna-wintour-met-gala-2018/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1422b22c01cfe1e/69893009096a941a3a6a25de/screen-shot-2018-05-10-at-10-50-39-am.png?branch=production&width=1064&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1064 og:image:height: 599 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2018-05-10 at 10.50.39 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Got Anna Wintour to Judge All the Pope Style twitter:description: The late-night host took a tour of the Met's new exhibit twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1422b22c01cfe1e/69893009096a941a3a6a25de/screen-shot-2018-05-10-at-10-50-39-am.png?branch=production&width=1064&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 'Bless Up.' 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Luckily, he was able to recruit Anna Wintour—perennial co-chair of the annual charity ball—to take him behind the scenes of the costume exhibit curated to fit the gala’s theme, _Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic_ _Imagination_, and continue the celestial celebration. In a segment that aired during Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, Colbert joined Wintour and curator Andrew Bolton at the Costume Institute to take a look at—but definitely not touch—some of the pieces that will be on display over the next few months. “Is there a security system protecting all this stuff or is the security just the crushing guilt you will feel if you take anything?” the host joked. Colbert also couldn’t resist having the pair play a game of “Who Poped It Better?” in order to crown the ultimate Papal Fashion Icon—a title every pope has no doubt coveted. 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