Intro Rewind: Dick Cavett

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Stephen took over his own podcast yet again last summer with an exclusive introduction to a beloved Colbert Classic, his conversation with television legend and friend of the show, Dick Cavett. In this interview from January 2020, Stephen and Dick toasted his first visit to the Late Show with an orange juice and Campari cocktail, a drink introduced to him by none other than Marlon Brando. 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. 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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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, you're listening to The Late Show Pod Show.
0:07.9	I'm Becca.
0:08.8	I work here, and I'm here with my boss, the host of the show, Mr. Stephen Colbert.
0:12.7	Hi, Stephen.
0:13.2	Hi, Becca.
0:14.4	Boss.
0:15.1	I guess I am your boss.
0:16.5	I don't think of myself as your boss.
0:18.2	I think of you as someone who works on the show that I do because you don't like, I'm not your direct report. Like, who do you report to? Tom. Tom does, yeah. Tom is my, Tom is my official boss. Firm but fair. Yeah. But I call everyone my boss. I call everyone my boss who's, I call Maya my boss sometimes. I call everyone who works at a chief. Yeah, except chief. Yeah, exactly. It's a compliment.
0:38.6	It's somebody who is, uh, who's going to, who's going to help steer me on the way. But I, you know, I live to serve. I live to serve all the bosses. Um, what do we got? Who are talking to today? Today we have Mr. Flash card. I'll just look at it. She's going to flip it over and instant reaction.
0:55.3	Go.
0:57.3	Oh, Dick Cavett.
0:59.9	I love dear old Dickie.
1:04.0	He, through a friend, through Robert Smigel, back when I still worked at the Daily Show,
1:10.6	he sent me a compliment about something I'd,
1:12.6	a piece I had done over there.
1:14.6	Instead it reminded him of a comedian I admire very much,
1:18.6	or a comic writer.
1:20.6	And as soon as I had an opportunity, and I don't know how it came about,
1:24.6	I started writing him.
1:26.6	And we exchange emails every couple
1:28.9	weeks. And we meet at a club that he belongs to in Manhattan and have drinks. And, and he always has
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