Conan O'Brien's Colbert Questionert
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
If you don't know his favorite action movie, or who performed at his first concert, do you really know late night comedy legend Conan O'Brien?
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| 0:00.0 | Your favorite true crime series, 48 Hours, is back for a new season, and so is the official |
| 0:05.5 | after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then |
| 0:11.2 | join me, 48 Hours correspondent Anne-Marie Green on Tuesday for a new episode of Postmortem, |
| 0:17.2 | where we bring you a closer look at each case. This case was eye-opening on so many different levels. |
| 0:24.1 | Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | It's the Late Show Pancho with Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:39.3 | We're here with one of the stars of the new movie, along with Rose Byrne. |
| 0:46.0 | Yes. |
| 0:46.8 | Of, if I had legs, I would kick you. |
| 0:49.2 | Yes. |
| 0:49.6 | Okay. Conan O'Brien. |
| 0:51.1 | Conan, you know, we've been friends for years. |
| 0:53.2 | Yes. |
| 1:32.6 | That was... It's like I'm talkingudging. It's like I was pulled over and a policeman's asking me questions. No, we've been very good friends. From the moment I met you, I was like, oh, this guy plays the way I do. I just felt like, oh, you're one of my brothers. We play and we're goofball. Always gotten along great admirer of yours. I've interviewed you many times, many times off camera. But the problem is, is that however many times you talk to someone, if you don't ask the right questions, you don't get to know them very well. Because people have an armor over them. Yes, they do. You know what I mean? Like, we protect ourselves, a face for the faces that we meet. Yes. As, uh, Elliot said. So what we've done here at the late show is we've come up with something called the Colbert questionnaire. It is a series |
| 1:36.9 | of questions, a series of questions, uh, that, that, that penetrate into the soul of someone, like an insidious intent. |
| 1:48.0 | And I am wondering, I am wondering whether you have the courage to be fully known by people, |
| 1:52.6 | because that's what happens if you take the Colbert questionnaire. |
| 1:54.6 | You are fully known. |
| 1:55.7 | Are you willing to do that? |
| 1:56.8 | I would rather not. |
| 1:59.2 | Well, that's what we've planned on doing tonight. |
| 2:02.7 | Okay, then let's do it. |
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