--- title: Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Rode Segways Into Battle description: Bringing jousting into the modern age canonical: https://time.com/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-21T14:56:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:52.095Z og:title: Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Rode Segways Into Battle og:description: Bringing jousting into the modern age og:url: https://time.com/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1b853f3ac3759d4/6988ab055f570f9a54b22fc1/screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Rode Segways Into Battle twitter:description: Bringing jousting into the modern age twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1b853f3ac3759d4/6988ab055f570f9a54b22fc1/screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Joust on Segways by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 21, 2016 2:56 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 21, 2016 2:56 PM UTC Noted [_Lord of the Rings_ enthusiast](http://time.com/4440615/stephen-colbert-late-show-lord-of-the-rings/?iid=sr-link1) Stephen Colbert faced off against _Lord of the Rings_ star [Elijah Wood](http://time.com/4344591/elijah-wood-child-sex-abuse-hollywood/?iid=sr-link1) in a battle straight out of Middle Earth—sort of. [Wood](http://time.com/3533218/hobbit-safety-videoair-new-zealand-lord-of-the-rings/?iid=sr-link9) stopped by _The Late Show_ on Thursday night to talk about his upcoming BBC series _Dirk Gently_, and Colbert was thrilled to make his acquaintance. The sentiment was kind, but the meeting was a little awkward. Because apparently this wasn’t the first time Wood and Colbert had met, and this wasn’t the first time that Wood was a guest on _The Late Show._ This was news to [Colbert](http://time.com/4534681/stephen-colbert-president-obama-job-interview/?iid=sr-link3), though, and as they argued about their relationship status, the once-cordial conversation quickly devolved into a chilly war of words. One slap of a glove, however, and the only option was to resolve their dispute like gentlemen, namely jousting on Segways on the streets of New York. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Joust on Segways","datePublished":"2016-10-21T14:56:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:52.095Z","description":"Bringing jousting into the modern age","url":"https://time.com/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","the late show"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1b853f3ac3759d4/6988ab055f570f9a54b22fc1/screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc1b853f3ac3759d4/6988ab055f570f9a54b22fc1/screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"screen-shot-2016-10-21-at-10-52-30-am","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4540343/stephen-colbert-elijah-wood-segway-joust/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert and Elijah Wood Joust on Segways"}}]}] ```