Kevin Spacey nearly brings Carol Burnett to tears on Colbert's Late Show

Kevin Spacey reads a poem to Carol Burnett

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Jimmy Stewart was one of Carol Burnett's idols, and he surprised her by coming on her last Carol Burnett Show, she told Stephen Colbert on Wednesday's Late Show. "Well, there's actually somebody here tonight, and you are his idol," Colbert told Burnett, "and it's the actor Kevin Spacey, and he would like to come out and say hi." He did, but he did it in character, and he read a poem, and it looks like Burnett got a little misty. Watch below — and if it gets a little too sentimental, you can wash it down with Burnett's Tarzan yell from earlier in the show. Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.