Frustrated With Your Computer Always Crashing? Stephen Colbert Can Relate

If you've ever had one of those days where your computer at work or home kept crashing, locking up, or just generally preventing you from getting anything productive done, you'll be glad to know new Late Show host Stephen Colbert feels your pain.

On Wednesday's Late Show, Colbert explained that while editing Tuesday's debut show, the hard drives in the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York kept crashing, and wouldn't allow them to digitally send the show to the network. He explained that with less than 15 minutes until air time, nobody was sure the show would actually hit the air.

We've all had instances where we've wanted to throw our computer out the window because it kept crashing, but I can particularly relate to Colbert's situation-- if not quite on that same scale. One time, at the stations I worked for back in Eau Claire, we were transferring all our audio files from one playback system to another, 'updated' version.

After weeks of installing the new hardware and software, we were less than a couple of hours from throwing the switch to the new system when, somehow, all our files had disappeared from the hard drives. No one on our end could see them anywhere; they had simply vanished. And the clock was ticking. If we didn't find them in several hours, it'd be nothing but silence ("dead air" as it's called) on the station.

Luckily, after consulting a team of IT geniuses down in Dallas, they were somehow able to restore everything and we continued to remain on the air. But it was a nervous few moments for awhile. Here's Stephen's "funny story"...