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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Audience Questions (Exclusive) | Mulch Obliged

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

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

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Every night before the show, our host takes a few questions from the audience. In this brand new podcast-exclusive round up, Stephen talks candidly about his writing process, favorite NYC pizza, and tells the story of when he realized he had reached the perfect level of fame. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the late show, hot show with Stephen Colbay.

0:09.7

Hey, are there any questions I can answer

0:11.1

before we get going here?

0:12.2

Yes, ma'am.

0:14.0

My favorite part about coming to work every day,

0:18.0

the jokes?

0:19.0

Because I get just as upset about what's happening in the world

0:22.0

as anybody else does,

0:23.4

but I get to hang out with some of the funniest people in the world and we make each other

0:26.3

feel better about it just by letting the release out, you know, the anxiety comes out with a ha ha ha, like that.

0:35.2

This band is another reason to get to share the stage with these artists every night.

0:38.6

On two. On Tuesdays we get pizza. It's pretty great. It's pretty great.

0:50.0

Anybody else? Yes, right there, yeah. When did I realize that as a public person, my life changed forever?

0:57.0

You put it ominously, my life changed forever.

1:01.0

You put it ominously, my friend. When did I know the people like

1:06.0

watched the show and did that change my life? I remember fairly, when I was still

1:12.0

at the Daily Show and the show had kind of broken in 2000, but really in 2002, it really got even bigger.

1:19.0

And because nobody knew who we were before that.

1:21.0

He had to be really kind of news junkies to know who we were before that. He had to be really kind of news junkies to know who we are before 2000.

1:25.0

And I came back from the, like the plant supply store where, in the whole suburban town we live in New Jersey and I said to

1:34.5

Evie I said I'm the perfect amount of famous and she goes what is it and I said I'm

1:39.9

not famous enough that there's any paparazzi or anybody bothers me but I went to the

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