Melissa McCarthy | Throne In Jail
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
A major figure in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is finally facing consequences, President Trump held the first meeting of his Board of Peace, and the fallout from President Obama’s comment about alien life forms continues. Emmy-winner Melissa McCarthy stops by to show some love to Stephen and to share a truly surreal story about getting a call from Barbra Streisand and finding herself headed to the music legend’s home to record a duet.
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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 |
| 0:05.5 | after show podcast, Postmortem. Every Monday, listen to a new episode of 48 hours, and then |
| 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. |
| 0:24.1 | Follow and listen to 48 hours on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:41.0 | Thank you gentlemen. You might notice. You might know, you guys know, you might notice, I'm sounding a little froggy tonight. |
| 0:49.2 | I've been losing my voice all week. Um, it's almost all back, uh, but the rest of it is available on YouTube. |
| 0:57.0 | I feel like... |
| 1:03.0 | It feels... |
| 1:04.0 | It feels like spring here in New York. |
| 1:07.0 | It's in the 40s. |
| 1:08.4 | The snow is melting, |
| 1:10.3 | leaving behind piles of uncollected dog poop. |
| 1:14.1 | Like mastodon bones emerging from the Siberian permafrost. |
| 1:19.8 | There's a spring in my step because you really want to hop over all that poop. |
| 1:24.6 | Also, because this morning, the former Princerew was arrested following revelations in the |
| 1:29.7 | afternoon fires yes finally someone anyone let's hear it let's hear it for british justice |
| 1:38.9 | which is better which is better than american justice because it comes with frilly wigs. |
| 1:47.3 | As Andrew was being driven away by police, |
| 1:49.8 | a photographer snapped this photo. |
| 1:55.1 | It's a classic pose known as the Nosphoratu. |
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