Stephen Presents: Bedtime Stories
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Stephen's back on the podcast for some very special holiday podcast introductions! Tonight he and his podcast producer Becca are going deep in the vault and tucking our listeners into their cozy beds with these two Bedtime Stories: listen as the incomparable Julie Andrews reads a story by A.A. Milne with Stephen, and Stephen's group chat buddy George Saunders reads an original piece for the Christmas season.
George Saunders originally aired December 8th, 2015; Julie Andrews originally aired October 22nd, 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Stephen Colbert. I'm here with Becca, my producer. Hi, Becca. Hi, Stephen. Coming up on the holidays. Coming up on the holidays. So you know what's going on. It's Stephen Presents. We come into the podcast booth and we talk about some of the podcasts you're going to listen to this week. Hit me. All right. So the first one, |
| 0:20.9 | we're going from the vault. We're going deep in the vault. Whoa. First season. |
| 0:25.9 | 1750 shows. How many have we done something like that now? Yeah, I think today is the 44th. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, 1744. Okay. So yeah, we're getting there. This is the first season, December 8th, |
| 0:36.0 | 2015, to be exact. |
| 0:38.0 | So the show is structured into different acts. |
| 0:41.0 | And we call the last act of the show what? |
| 0:43.6 | We call it the goodnight act. |
| 0:45.1 | Yeah, good night. |
| 0:45.8 | And why is that? |
| 0:46.7 | Because I say good night. |
| 0:47.5 | Mostly, I just say good night and say, this is who I've got tomorrow. |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:51.6 | So something about that is when we have a pre-daped band and you don't tape a |
| 0:55.4 | good night, me and Maya say to each other, he didn't say good night. It's like us getting |
| 0:59.4 | tucked in at the end of the night. We can't say good night. So it's the good night act. And we had a lot of |
| 1:03.8 | fun with the good night act in the first season with this very special segment that you did with one of |
| 1:10.3 | your hiking chat buddies. |
| 1:12.6 | Okay, so my hiking chat buddies are Nick Offerman, George Saunders. |
| 1:19.4 | Oh, this is bedtime. |
| 1:20.4 | This is bedtime tuck in. |
| 1:21.8 | This is bedtime stories. |
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