Paul Simon's Colbert Questionert
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
If you don't know who performed at his first concert, or which animal he fears most, do you really know music legend Paul Simon?
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Late Show's Hot Show with Stephen Colbert. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to The Late Show. I'm here. You know who this man is. This is Paul Simon, ladies and gentlemen. |
| 0:14.0 | Paul, I love, I saw you in concert recently. I love the album Seven Psalms. |
| 0:22.4 | You're on tour right now. |
| 0:24.2 | But even though I've had the honor of talking to you |
| 0:26.3 | quite a few times over the years in this show and the old show, |
| 0:29.5 | and obviously I do a lot of sound engineering for you on tour, |
| 0:32.2 | everybody knows that. |
| 0:34.3 | I don't always have to talk to you about that. |
| 0:36.9 | Okay, all right, yes. |
| 0:38.3 | Talk to my union rep, okay? |
| 0:40.3 | That's how it works. |
| 0:41.3 | I don't always get to talk to you about like the deepest thoughts, the deepest ideas, okay? |
| 0:45.3 | And so what we've done here at the show, we've created something called the Colbert questionnaire. |
| 0:50.3 | And the Colbert questionnaire, these have all been tested to space age tolerances |
| 0:57.4 | in order to penetrate straight into the soul of someone |
| 1:00.3 | so they can be revealed to the world. |
| 1:02.0 | Do you have the courage, Paul Simon, |
| 1:03.0 | to answer the questionnaire and to be fully known? |
| 1:07.7 | What choice of I? |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. What choice have I? First question, Paul Simon. |
| 1:16.6 | Paul Simon, what is the best sandwich? |
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