John Mulaney & David Byrne | Throne Out
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Over eight million people marched in the third “No Kings” protest, President Trump appears to be making up his Iran war strategy on-the-fly, and the war is causing global economic pain and shortages of resources like helium. The Late Show is raising money for World Central Kitchen with a special t-shirt that celebrates the show’s upcoming series finale, and President Trump’s name and likeness will soon appear on official U.S. currency. Grab one of the t-shirts today at colbertlateshow.com/ebay. Emmy-winner John Mulaney had some explaining to do when, during a tour of Graceland with his Elvis-loving son, the boy asked if he could meet The King. Tickets to Mulaney’s “Mister Whatever” standup comedy tour at www.johnmulaney.com. David Byrne talks about what makes his latest album and tour, titled “Who Is The Sky?,” different from his previous work, “American Utopia.” One thing that is very different is the use of video footage of Trump’s immigration raids, which Byrne shows on video screens while performing a Talking Heads classic, “Life During Wartime.” Watch as the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer explains why he delves into politics on this tour, and check out our YouTube page for a performance of a song from “Who Is The Sky?”
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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 |
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| 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. |
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| 0:35.1 | Welcome. Welcome, friends. Welcome one at all. To The Late Show. I'm your host Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen, we are back after a week off. I took a little vacation, got out on the boat, and I got to say the fishing was unbelievable in the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:56.8 | Not another boat in sight. |
| 1:00.3 | And I caught a giant piece of ticking metal. |
| 1:04.6 | It just got to figure out how to filet that sucker. |
| 1:08.0 | But the number one story is that Saturday was the third |
| 1:11.7 | no Kings protest and it was huge. Amazing. They're all over the place. They're all over. They were |
| 1:21.3 | enormous. Just look at the crowd we got here in New York. Oh, that's the TSA line at JFK. |
| 1:31.4 | It's surprising that the lines were so long considering all the help they got from ice. I mean, you know the old saying. You know the old saying, if you |
| 1:40.7 | got time to lean, you're an ice agent. |
| 1:50.0 | New York's actual No King's March was huge, as were. |
| 2:01.6 | The marches in Chicago, in San Diego, Atlanta, Philly, and in Boston, Massachusetts. Look at Boston. |
| 2:03.6 | Now that last footage there from Boston was either from no Kings |
| 2:08.6 | or the annual Walberg family Palm Sunday punch and munch. |
| 2:13.6 | You get a burger and a punch in the face. |
| 2:15.6 | Now, I don't know why is that. |
| 2:18.4 | All sold. |
| 2:19.3 | All told, Saturday was the largest single-day protest ever held in the United States since the first Earth Day back in 1970. |
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