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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Intro Rewind: Cole Escola (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Colbert and his podcast sidekick talked at length in May about the history and span of Broadway (the street) before launching into Stephen's extended interview with Tony winner Cole Escola! Cole reveals what they hope to do next after the incredible success of "Oh, Mary!" on Broadway and challenges Stephen to a straight-off during their Late Show debut (originally aired April 28th, 2025).


The Late Show Pod Show will be looking back at some of our favorite Colbert Introductions from this past season before Stephen returns with all new episodes September 2nd.

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0:00.0

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1:05.1

Hey, Becca. Hey, Stephen. What day is it? It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday night on the podcast. Fantastic. It's hump day. It's hump day. We always do that. When I come on on Wednesday nights, you'll look over, and the band will hold up one hand and put another hand over that hand, like one hand is diving over the other. Because that one hand, the first hand, conveys Wednesday. Yes. And then we're getting over it. Yeah. The other hand, we're getting over hump day. And it's so nice to be here with you in this little podcast booth that we have away from the construction noise on the street. I don't know if that's affecting you. Yeah, it's a caddy corner to us. It's north and east of us. They've torn down something. They tore down a long

1:45.8

time ago. Yeah. But now they're finally hammering out. They've got three basically, um, uh, front

1:54.3

unloaders with backhoe attachments, but the back hoe is off and they've got jackhammer attachments.

1:59.5

Yeah.

2:00.0

On. And, uh, they're're they're drilling into the bedrock

2:03.5

because we're on Broadway and people may not know this but there are a couple of places in

2:08.0

New York where the bedrock comes right right and level essentially if you would have been here

2:13.5

hundreds of years ago before it was developed when the Lenape or whoever was originally

2:17.3

on the site there was exposed bedrock in places. And downtown, where the skyscrapers are,

2:24.2

that's bedrock. Midtown, where that's where the skyscrapers are, that's bedrock. And running

2:29.9

down the island, there's this groin of bedrock that's exposed back in the old days. On top of

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