Edward Norton (Extended) | Un-Believable

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Kim Jong Un was re-elected as North Korea’s leader, Trump’s counterterrorism chief quit over the Iran war, Rep. Markwayne Mullin might not be the best pick to run DHS, and cousins can still marry each other in Florida. Friend of the show Edward Norton stops by with no project to promote, just a poem in his back pocket. Hear this extended cut of Stephen’s interview with Edward Norton including a performance of a section from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

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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.
0:34.9	Welcome.
0:35.9	Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, one and all, children of all ages.
0:41.2	To The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.
0:44.6	Ladies and gentlemen, we got a lot to get to tonight. We got a lot to get to. Right off the bat,
0:52.2	okay, it's 2026, and we have some breaking election news coming out of the great state of North Korea
0:57.8	because with all precincts reporting, we're ready to call North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly
1:04.2	election and incumbent madman Kim Jong-un has won with 99.93% of the vote.
1:13.2	Congratulations to Un, friend of the show.
1:15.6	He has done so many cold opens for us.
1:18.5	Thank you, sir.
1:19.5	We may have our differences, but you got to hand it to him.
1:23.1	He really rallied support with his stirring campaign slogan,
1:27.1	I have your family.
1:29.7	Yeah.
1:30.6	You know, simple.
1:33.9	You got to reach the people.
1:36.3	In second place, with 0.0% of the vote was Andrew Cuomo.
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