Audience Questions [Exclusive] | Stephen's Cable Access Takeover

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Colbert gives a special introduction to a Pod Show exclusive and presents a new compilation of questions he's taken from the audience in the Ed Sullivan theater. Find out why Stephen started making this Q&A a part of his regular showtime routine at The Colbert Report, and hear him answer questions such as: What's the biggest fish you've ever caught? Who's your favorite late night host to do the job? At what moment did you chose comedy over dramatic acting? And what was it like to interview Eminem on a local cable access channel in Monroe, Michigan in 2015?

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0:00.0	Bob Marley is the number one movie in America.
0:03.0	We mean?
0:04.0	Audiences are raven.
0:06.0	It's the perfect movie at the perfect time.
0:09.0	You dig.
0:10.0	Bob Marley won love, made it PG-13, now play. Big Hey everybody you're listening to Late Show we're with Stephen Colbert.
0:23.4	What's up, Becca? We got a great podcast on the pod today. We've got an exclusive
0:27.9	podcast which is our audience questions podcast which we put out every once in a while
0:32.0	Always enjoy these I go out every night in a while. I always enjoy these.
0:33.0	I go out every night before the show when I take answers, I take answers.
0:37.0	I provide answers to stupid answers to silly questions from the audience.
0:42.0	And I can get a really good sense of how good the audience is based upon what the questions are that night.
0:47.0	Oh wow, yeah.
0:48.0	Sometimes no one raises their hand. I'm like, no one, I'm here, did you not know that it was going to be me tonight and no one raises
0:54.5	their hands? I'm sure people are intimidated if they don't know about but you've
0:58.2	been doing this for a long time you're doing this since the Colbert Report
1:00.6	right? Yeah I've been taking questions since the very first show of the Colbert.
1:04.5	When did it, what makes you want to do, like why is this part of your routine?
1:08.1	Well over there I really wanted to do it because I wasn't going to be myself, I was going to be in character, but I want the audience,
1:14.3	the live audience to have some sense of who I was as a person.
1:19.2	A, so they could appreciate that I was doing a character, but B, also the things he was saying with a
1:24.3	straight face and with my name sometimes were just absolutely awful like you know Rosa Parks
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