--- title: Jon Stewart Crashed 'Colbert' With a Royal Wedding Update description: The former 'Daily Show' host popped by Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' to deliver some royal jokes — from beneath Colbert's desk. canonical: https://time.com/5288420/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert-royal-wedding/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-23T14:11:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:05.227Z og:title: Jon Stewart Crashed Colbert With a Royal Wedding Update og:description: Stewart brought his own brand of royal joke to the 'Late Show' desk og:url: https://time.com/5288420/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert-royal-wedding/ 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: Jon Stewart Crashed Colbert With a Royal Wedding Update twitter:description: Stewart brought his own brand of royal joke to the 'Late Show' desk twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jon Stewart Crashed Stephen Colbert's Show With a Crucial Royal Wedding Update > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 23, 2018 2:11 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 23, 2018 2:11 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/5277811/stephen-colbert-javanka-jerusalem/) was just trying to get through his _Late Show_ monologue on Tuesday night — but he had a surprise visitor in the form of comedian [Jon Stewart](http://time.com/5177227/jon-stewart-reaction-meme/) hiding out under his desk. And Stewart, who was there to join a contest-winning Colbert fan who was also chilling under the desk, had plenty to say, especially on the subject of the recently-completed [royal wedding](http://time.com/5285693/harry-meghan-royal-wedding-ratings/) of Meghan Markle to Prince Harry. “Just telling her about the royal wedding, I was at the royal wedding,” Stewart insisted to Colbert from his snug spot beneath the desk, where he and the other guest were to be found sipping from fancy teacups and wearing elaborate fascinators. “So anyway, as soon as Meghan says ‘I do’ and they kiss, right, I turn to Elizabeth, I’m sitting next to Elizabeth, and I go, ‘Yaaasss, Queen,'” he continued to joke. Of course, in reality Stewart did not quite make the cut for the Windsor Castle nuptials on May 19 — although fellow denizens of showbiz [Oprah Winfrey](http://time.com/5283423/oprah-royal-wedding/), George Clooney and [Priyanka Chopra](http://time.com/5283432/priyanka-chopra-arrives-royal-wedding/) did. And Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II doesn’t sit next to just any old wedding attendee, even if he is a world-famous comedian; she was instead at the very front of the church accompanied in the second row by her husband, Prince Philip. 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