--- title: The Late Show Made a Subtitle Mistake and People Love It description: To be clear, Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is not from Hoodezfield, but The Late Show subtitle error was hilarious. canonical: https://time.com/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-05T15:11:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:16.597Z og:title: The Late Show Made a Subtitle Mistake and People Love It og:description: People are laughing at the mistake og:url: https://time.com/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b7d266a32bbfca/69893bf5457a521981d5f8b3/jodieonstephencolbertsubtitle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Late Show Made a Subtitle Mistake and People Love It twitter:description: People are laughing at the mistake twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b7d266a32bbfca/69893bf5457a521981d5f8b3/jodieonstephencolbertsubtitle.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert's _The Late Show_ Made a Hilarious Subtitle Mistake and People Love It by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 5, 2018 3:11 PM UTC  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Jodie Whittaker during Wednesday's October 3, 2018 show. (Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and guest Jodie Whittaker during Wednesday's October 3, 2018 show. (Photo by Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)CBS Photo Archive—CBS via Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Oct 5, 2018 3:11 PM UTC [_Doctor Who_ ](http://time.com/3159695/doctor-who-doctors/)star Jodie Whittaker made her American [late-night debut](https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1047870206708785153) on _The Late Show_ on Wednesday night. It wasn’t her forthcoming groundbreaking turn as [the first woman](http://time.com/4860071/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker/) to play [The Doctor](http://time.com/4079724/corgi-doctor-who/) or her confession of using “Clooney” as code word (in honor of George Clooney’s role as Dr. Ross on _ER_) to keep her role a secret that had everyone buzzing, though. Instead, it was a hilarious, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it typo on the show’s subtitles. In her conversation with host Stephen Colbert, while talking about her roots, Whittaker explained that she grew up in “Huddersfield in West Yorkshire” in the U.K. That’s what Whittaker said anyway. If anyone happened to be watching the show with the subtitles on, though, you would have read Whittaker’s words as, “I am from Hoodezfield in West Yorkshire.” While American audiences may have shrugged it off (or not even noticed it), British viewers thought the mix-up was downright hilarious and took to social media to share the joke. > [](https://twitter.com/dotski%5Fw/status/1047936811002187777) > [](https://twitter.com/Hudds925/status/1048207535579312130) > [](https://twitter.com/EmpJNorton/status/1048164498392211456) Whittaker’s former college weighed in on the spelling error: > [](https://twitter.com/kirkleescollege/status/1048166915015958528) As did the West Yorkshire police and a member of the local fire and rescue group: > [](https://twitter.com/BTPWestYorks/status/1048132693798637568) > [](https://twitter.com/WYFRSDaveWalton/status/1048094768750911489) If only someone on _The Late Show_ had access to a time machine (perhaps one in a blue bigger-on-the-inside police call box?) that could let them go back and correct the error. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert's The Late Show Made a Hilarious Subtitle Mistake and People Love It","datePublished":"2018-10-05T15:11:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:16.597Z","description":"To be clear, Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker is not from Hoodezfield","url":"https://time.com/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","doctor who","the late show","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5b7d266a32bbfca/69893bf5457a521981d5f8b3/jodieonstephencolbertsubtitle.jpg?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/blte5b7d266a32bbfca/69893bf5457a521981d5f8b3/jodieonstephencolbertsubtitle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","caption":"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","creditText":"CBS Photo Archive—CBS via Getty Images","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/5415608/stephen-colbert-subtitle-mistake/","name":"Stephen Colbert's The Late Show Made a Hilarious Subtitle Mistake and People Love It"}}]}] ```