Stephen Presents: Cole Escola (Extended)

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

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News, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Colbert and his podcast sidekick talk at length about the history and span of Broadway (the street) before launching into Stephen's interview with Broadway star and comedian Cole Escola! Cole reveals what they hope to do next after the incredible success of "Oh, Mary!" on Broadway and challenges Stephen to a straight-off during their Late Show debut. Go see Tony-nominated "Oh, Mary!" at the Lyceum Theatre, tickets are available at ohmaryplay.com (originally aired April 28th, 2025). To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Becca.
0:05.9	Hey, Stephen.
0:06.9	What day is it?
0:07.9	It's Wednesday night on the podcast.
0:11.5	Fantastic.
0:12.5	It's hump day.
0:13.4	It's hump day.
0:14.2	Yeah, we always do that.
0:14.9	When I come on on Wednesday nights, you'll look over, and the band will hold up one hand and put another hand over that hand like one hand is diving over the other
0:22.4	because that that one hand, the first hand conveys Wednesday.
0:27.3	Yes.
0:27.6	And then we're getting over it.
0:28.9	Yeah.
0:29.1	With the other hand, we're getting over hump day.
0:30.9	And it's so nice to be here with you in this little podcast booth that we have away from the construction noise on the street.
0:37.1	I don't know if that's affecting
0:38.0	you. Yeah, it's a caddy corner to us. It's north and east of us. They've torn down something.
0:44.4	They tore down a long time ago. Yeah. But now they're finally hammering out. They've got three
0:49.5	basically front-unloaders with back-o attachments, but the backhoe is off and they've got jackhammer attachments on.
1:00.3	And they're drilling into the bedrock because we're on Broadway.
1:04.7	And people may not know this, but there are a couple of places in New York where the bedrock comes right, right, level.
1:11.5	Essentially, if you would have been here hundreds of years ago before it was developed
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