Meanwhile | Anchovy Donut, Bungled Bobsled

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Meanwhile... Historians may have found actual DNA from Leonardo da Vinci, Stephen checks in on his fellow Olympic bobsledders, a man was found with over 100 human skulls in his house, a town in Japan appointed a calico cat to run a train terminal, Stephen fearlessly bites into a trending fish-covered donut, Mr. Beast is penniless, a bear broke into a candy store, and Staten Island is back on top!

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0:29.2	It's the late show, poncho with Stephen Colbert.
0:37.3	Folks, if you watch the show, and I hope you do,
0:39.3	then you know I spend most of my time over there in the news workshop,
0:42.0	carefully stringing the most topical glass story beads and semi-precious stones,
0:46.0	onto premium nylon threading before adding brass components and hand embellished with leather backing
0:51.1	to create the elegant and playful Deepo Gurnani Gloriosa Lux Hairband
0:55.8	that is my monologue, but sometimes, folks, sometimes.
1:01.3	And I mean just sometimes.
1:03.4	After stealing cocaine from a racehorse, I hide inside a tree stump where I wrap a bootlace
1:08.1	around a chunk of discarded coaxial cable and then use it to
1:11.3	coil my hair into a top knot using the gutter scrunchy of news that is my segment.
1:18.0	Meanwhile.
1:22.3	There it is.
1:26.4	It's good news for a troubled nation.
1:30.6	Meanwhile, in genome news, scientists have retrieved DNA that could belong to Leonardo
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