Elizabeth Warren doesn’t need to run for president (or vice president) to get her message out there.

CBS announced Thursday that the new Late Show with Stephen Colbert booked the Massachusetts senator — or, as Colbert describes her, “school librarian you had a crush on’’/Bernie Sanders imposter — to be a guest on the Sept. 23 show.

Warren will join actor Hugh Jackman, Global Poverty Project founder Hugh Evans, and musical guest Pearl Jam.

Colbert officially took over the CBS late-night role from David Letterman on Tuesday, in a premier that was more than 17 months in the waiting.

Warren joins an elite lineup of politicians to appear on the former Colbert Report host’s new show. Joe Biden is set to be a guest Thursday. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush appeared on the show’s premiere.


Fellow GOP hopefuls Donald Trump and Ted Cruz will appear the same week as Warren, as well as Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz.

Warren and Colbert first met in 2010, when she was just a lowly Harvard Law School professor and he was humble Comedy Central show host. She appeared a second time on the Colbert Report in 2014.

It’s fair to say their third meeting will have a few more viewers than they did on cable.