New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has turned tour guide for US talk show host Stephen Colbert, driving him from Auckland airport to a barbeque at her home in a stunt hailed as a coup for the Kiwi travel industry, Eurasia Diary reports citing AFP.
Colbert visited the South Pacific nation last month and is screening segments from the trip this week on "The Late Show", beginning with his meeting with the centre-left New Zealand leader.
It showed Ardern picking Colbert up -- in an electric vehicle, naturally -- and the comedian expressing concern his presence may be eating into her "executive time".
"I'm a woman, I multi-task, so don't worry," she fires back.
She also joins in a spoof of Colbert's fellow talk-show host James Cordern's carpool karaoke as the pair sing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" during their drive -- despite Colbert warning they could get into trouble.
"Do not even think about singing along with the radio if a song comes on that you like," he tells Ardern before she joins him in a rendition of the classic hit.
"That's James Cordern's thing and that guy is mobbed up with lawyers."
They also fired up the barbecue "for a New Zealand state dinner of sausages and white bread" at Ardern's Auckland home, with singer Lorde attending.
Ardern has appeared as a guest on Colbert's show twice, and each time invited him to visit New Zealand.
The American, who describes himself as an admirer and personal friend of Ardern and also a keen fan of the Kiwi-shot "Lord of the Rings" movies, said it was something he had always wanted to do.