Colbert Makes So Many Phone Calls to Butterball Turkey Helpline

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert learned that there are Butterball turkey experts standing by from Nov. 2 through Thanksgiving. Since the calls peak on Thanksgiving Day, Colbert realized that folks are sitting in front of phones that aren’t really ringing. To give them something to do, he decided he’d get some calls in early — and then he delivered a master class in prank calls, asking the operators things like, “I’m trying to do a turducken this year and I’m trying to get the duck into the turkey, but the turkey is having none of it; it keeps running away.” He did identify himself and was upfront about the fact that he was calling from The Late Show, but the turkey experts still played along, answering in earnest.