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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Every night before taping the show, Stephen takes a handful of questions from the studio audience that we compile and serve to you, the podcast listeners! In this latest edition, Stephen answers questions about the staff bar at the back of the theater, what mundane thing he's an expert in, if he ever misses doing "The Colbert Report," and what the strangest thing he's experienced in NYC has been. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are there any questions I can answer before we get going here?
0:07.0	Yes, I saw you first, young lady. Yes.
0:09.0	What's the story when you used to go take a drink at the back bar?
0:13.0	Oh, what was the story?
0:15.0	Oh, wow.
0:16.0	What was that story?
0:17.0	I used to go take a drink at the back bar.
0:19.0	Did that happen?
0:20.0	Because I was doing shots with Jennifer Lawrence one night. Is that how that happened? One night Jennifer Lawrence was on the show a long time ago. And back in 2017, 17, something like that. And she really didn't want to be here. She was on for something called, like, Red Sparrow,
0:39.8	some terrible movie that she knew was terrible,
0:41.8	had shot three years before.
0:43.8	She just didn't want to be here.
0:45.4	But contractually, she had to be here.
0:48.4	So I said, do you want to, can I get your cocktail?
0:51.6	And she goes, yeah, what do you have?
0:53.8	And I said, I've got some really good rum.
0:54.7	Do you want to do rums?
1:01.3	And we did, I think CBS would only allow us to show on air that we did two shots.
1:04.7	But we did five shots.
1:10.4	And I was, she was gone.
1:11.3	She was gone. She was gone.
1:12.8	She had her shoes off,
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