Late Show Vocab | Rescue Staff Rescue
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
If you've already heard this final lightning round of 'Late Show Vocab,' then please do enjoy these jokes a second time. We find that comedy gets so much fresher when you know what's coming! Stephen and Becca spent their last podcast-booth moments together talking about the whole Late Show staff & crew and what has made working with everyone so magical over the years. It's all leading up to an instant staff favorite: Rescue Staff Rescue! Stephen reveals some of the insane, humiliating and wonderful things his employees have done in service of late night television.
This podcast originally aired April 30th, 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | From the trusted team behind 48 hours, welcome to case-by-case. |
| 0:04.1 | Your weekly update on the biggest true crime stories unfolding right now. |
| 0:08.7 | Nick Ryder remains in custody without bail. |
| 0:11.0 | Luigi Mangione accused of stalking and gunning down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. |
| 0:16.0 | From high-profile trials and stunning evidence to major breaks in cold cases. |
| 0:22.2 | We'll follow it all case by case. |
| 0:24.8 | Follow and listen to 48 hours case by case wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.7 | Becca Weiner. |
| 0:36.0 | Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:37.2 | Look at that. Said our last names for the first time. Oh my gosh. Reveal. Reveal. My last name is Weiner. Spelled like winner without one less end, not weiner, even though I love a hot dog. Find me on LinkedIn, please. Please. Stephen. Yes. Today's podcast. the last podcast intro we're doing together. |
| 0:56.5 | Yes, it is. |
| 0:57.0 | But not the last time we're hanging out. |
| 0:59.3 | Is Rescue Staff Rescue. |
| 1:00.9 | Oh, I love Rescue Staff Rescue. |
| 1:03.0 | First of all, I love Rescue Dog Rescue because I love a refillable. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.0 | Which is what we call something that has a game that the audience knows and that you are slotting jokes into that game. |
| 1:14.1 | And they're difficult, actually, because all the jokes have to be good or at least the performance has to be playful because there's very little build in them. |
| 1:25.2 | Like the story doesn't go anywhere. |
| 1:26.3 | It's just like, joke. |
| 1:27.1 | Okay, next joke. It's just like a bucket. You're just throwing jokes in a bucket. The refillable. And rescue, dog rescue was, I don't know who came up with it originally. But I love the idea because I just want something for the audience to look at that it looks different and enjoyable to them while we're making the jokes. And what could be better than puppies? What can be better than puppies? Dana Carvey said in my old days when I first was working for him back in the 90s, he said, Hey, just remember, Funny with the Sound Off. I said, what? He goes, funny with the sound off. I want somebody to be who's at the gym or at home or whatever. I want them to look up and go, oh, pause and turn the sound on. I want them to see it and go, oh, funny with the sound on. Yeah, yeah. Funny with sound off, so they'll turn the sound on. And that's what the puppies are just, they're adorable and they're lovely and they're moving, but they're also just funny looking. |
| 2:20.6 | Totally. |
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