Stephen Presents: Frankenstein's Monster's Questionert

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.4 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Merry Christmas from The Late Show Pod Show! Our gift to you is legendary Late Show writer Brian Stack's Colbert Questionert, which he completed in the character (and full-body makeup) of Frankenstein's Monster as a web exclusive this Halloween. Tune in to find out what the necromancer's favorite sandwich is and what he thinks happens when we die.

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0:00.0	It is Stephen Colbert with my producer, Becca. Becca, hello.
0:10.2	Hello.
0:10.9	Welcome to what day are we doing.
0:13.4	Guess what? It's Christmas. Merry Christmas.
0:16.0	Merry Christmas.
0:16.7	Oh, happy holidays.
0:18.0	Good morning. Good morning.
0:19.0	That's great.
0:20.5	The stockings are hung by the chimney with care. Yes. That's great. What do we have stuffed in the stockings for everybody out there on this bright yule? This is a special gift that I want to give the Late Show Pod Show listeners. Can we do guess the guest really quick? Oh, please. I love this game. Okay.
0:39.1	This didn't air on television.
0:40.4	It's a web exclusive.
0:42.8	But I interviewed this person?
0:43.6	Yes.
0:43.9	Okay.
0:49.4	We had to swap out the guest chairs when we taped this for this guest and use a prop chair so that all of their makeup wouldn't ruin the upholstery.
0:55.5	Was this Cullen Crawford dressed up as Whoop from the Star Wars?
1:01.3	No, I don't know about that.
1:02.3	It might predate you.
1:03.4	It might predate you because he was full, it was blue, it was this blue alien creature.
1:08.4	This was green.
1:09.5	This was green.
1:10.6	A green person. And then you asked them what their favorite sandwich was. Oh, my gosh. This was Brian Stack as Frankenstein's Monster. Yes, during the Colbert questionnaire. And I forgot why, because he was dressed up as Frankenstein's Monster for another bit. Yeah. I said, oh, it would be fun to interview him. Yes. And we just did it for Halloween. The show before Halloween, we rolled in Sir Anthony Hopkins, so the audience didn't have like a guest, a live guest. Right. And he had dressed up as Frankenstein for the cold open that we did with Guillermo del Toro. Yes. Yes. Yes. So we said, come on out. So this is Brian Stack in character
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