Stephen Colbert's Late Show ropes Peppa Pig into Peloton's dead TV character mess
Peloton, whose stock price has already taken a hit as Wall Street gazes beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, has another problem on its hands: Fictional TV characters suffering a heart attack while riding on the high-end stationary bike. Stephen Colbert's Late Show saw the fatal heart attack on And Just Like That and the nonfatal cardiac arrest on Billionaires and decided to add a beloved children's cartoon to the list on Monday's show. Be warned, this version of Peppa Big gets pretty dark.
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