Gary Oldman's Colbert Questionert

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Stephen Colbert travels to London to sit down with the great Gary Oldman, seeking to “fully know” the legendary actor by administering a scientifically-crafted series of questions known as The Colbert Questionert. See Gary Oldman in the fifth season of “Slow Horses,” premiering next Wednesday on AppleTV+. 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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1:01.5	It's the Late Show Pacho with Stephen Colbert.
1:09.1	Last February, I had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Oldman, star of The Professional,
1:14.3	The Darkest Hour, and currently Slow Horses on Apple TV Plus.
1:17.9	And I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation, but I really wanted to fully know Mr. Oldman.
1:24.7	So I invited him to take what cognitive psychologists call the Colbert questionnaire.
1:30.9	Yvonne?
1:32.0	Gary Oldman, I really enjoy talking to you.
1:34.1	But even in the sort of the lengthy interview we've been able to do before,
1:38.7	you don't get to know someone as much as you would truly want to.
1:43.0	That's why at the Late Show Labs, we came up with a series of 15 questions that are
1:51.8	ergonomically designed to penetrate the armor of a human being.
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