Intro Rewind: Keanu Reeves
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
We're playing some of our favorite Stephen-led podcasts from 2025 to celebrate the New Year! In this Intro Rewind, Stephen plays another round of 'Late Show Vocab' to reveal the deeper meanings of workplace nicknames and lingo before examining some of life's biggest perplexities in a special Keanu edition of 'Big Questions With Even Bigger Stars.'
This podcast was originally released on August 21st, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | Olivia Culpo here to tell you all about the launch of the new Abercrombie spring denim collection, |
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| 0:33.9 | Hi, Becca. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi, Stephen. |
| 0:36.5 | No, please. Oh, I beg you. |
| 0:37.7 | After you, my dear Alphonse. All right. This is the late show of pod show with Stephen Colbert. And Becca, my producer. And we got a really fun pod show tonight. This is big questions with even bigger stars. Gosh, who have I done that with lately? So this was... The last time we did this was a year ago. Was Brad Pitt? |
| 0:55.9 | He has done it, but this was, the last time we did this was a year ago. Was Brad Pitt? |
| 0:55.9 | He has done it, but this is not the most recent one. |
| 0:58.8 | Ryan Reynolds? |
| 1:00.6 | Okay, let me see if I can quiz you based on the story that I want to tell about this guest. |
| 1:05.1 | Okay. |
| 1:05.6 | They came into the rewrite room, and it was me, Caroline Lazare, Ariel Dumas, and we were all... Keanu. Yes. And can you phrase my sentence? Yeah, because you guys were all dolled up. Yeah, and we were all blushing. We were all blushing and you were super excited that Keanu was there. And I wasn't expect... I like him. I love big fan of Bill and Ted, big fan of his work. |
| 1:27.6 | But did not expect to be completely disarmed by how charming this man was. And how great he looks. He looks great. |
| 1:34.1 | I was like, why are there so many women in this show, right? |
| 1:37.8 | And then Ariel starts laughing and pointing at me and says, you're bright red. And then Stephen looks at me and says, are you okay? |
| 1:47.1 | But such a charming, nice guy. |
| 1:48.9 | Wonderful. |
| 1:49.5 | Really lovely. |
| 1:50.7 | So this is Keanu Reeves doing big questions with even bigger stars. |
| 1:54.4 | But before we get to that, we're having a great summertime and we're doing late show |
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