After nine years, self-proclaimed "original 'Star Wars' fan" Stephen Colbert on Monday night got his chance to clarify to "Star Wars" creator George Lucas that he did in fact know lightsabers.
While analyzing the new Japanese trailer for "The Force Awakens" on "The Late Show," Colbert recalled his lightsaber duel with Lucas back on a 2006 episode of "The Colbert Report" and revealed that it didn't exactly go as well as he had hoped.
Before Lucas came on the show, Colbert was told by Industrial Light & Magic that Lucas referred to the lightsabers as laser swords, so during a commercial break, Colbert asked Lucas whether he wanted to have a "laser sword fight." Colbert took Lucas' "sure" as a great sign, but right before the show came back on the air, Lucas told Colbert that most people called the weapons lightsabers.
Colbert continued the story: "For the next five minutes, I'm just sitting there waiting for the cameras to go off so I could say, I know they're called lightsabers. I was just calling them laser swords because that's what you called them in your first draft of the original script when it was called 'The Adventures of the Starkiller: Episode I — The Star Wars.' Because I'm your biggest fan, please take me back to Tatooine with you."
But Colbert never got the chance to rectify the misunderstanding because Lucas left after the battle.
"If you're watching tonight, I knew they were called lightsabers," Colbert said, directing his words to Lucas. "Everyone knows they're called lightsabers."
You can watch the duel and Monday night's clip below:
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