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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Presents: George Clooney

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

Tv & Film, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.42.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

To kick off the last batch of 'Stephen Presents' podcasts, Colbert and his producer Becca go all the way back to Episode 1 of The Late Show to talk about Stephen's first interview on the Ed Sullivan Theater stage and how the show almost didn't air that night! Stay tuned all week for more exclusive stories straight from our host, only on The Late Show Pod Show.

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0:00.0

Hi, Becca.

0:05.5

Hi, Stephen. How's it going?

0:07.4

It's going pretty well. This is our podcast intros for our last break before the end of the late show.

0:14.7

Yeah. This is it. This is the last Stephen presents. The final hiatus.

0:17.7

Yeah, yeah, it is. After this, every break I have is semi-permanent.

0:22.2

We're not talking about the end there because it might be the last podcast, but I still got another five weeks of hanging out with you. That's true. Another month of hanging out. So we're not saying goodbye. And the thing is about people who are like, what's it like, you know, the end of the show? and I go, well, it's every show is just as hard as the last show

0:37.7

or just as fun.

0:38.9

You know, like it's not to put it, as hard as the last show or just as fun. You're like,

0:39.1

it's not to put it, you know, not to put it on the downside. And so it doesn't, physically, it doesn't feel like the show is ending. Yeah. Because you got to, you got to run through the tape every day. Well, also, we've done, what, 1700 of these at this point?

0:53.2

At the end, it'll be 1,810 is the total number.

0:56.7

So it feels like a normal day because we're... day. Well, also, we've done, what, 1700 of these at this point? At the end, it'll be

0:54.2

1,810. Yeah, so it feels like a normal day because we're doing what we always do, which is a show that day.

1:02.0

Engaging in recreational exhaustion. Something happened the other day where it hit 80 for the first time, and everyone kind of had a senioritis it's almost summertime. Oh you mean 80 degrees yeah

1:13.4

yeah it was almost 80 degrees and there was just a vibe of like oh it's summer this is like an

1:18.6

exciting time yes but then also oh it's summer and we all know what happens the summer you know

1:25.6

yeah so it was emotions were high yesterday but nice and we got we won the softball game can we get a can we get a whoop you beat john oliver's last week tonight yes we did was all over there he was not there he was not there but i think he signed his regards oh no it was busy you were parting all night with billy crystal at the show you know we the crew barely made it to the game. Oh, that's right. I was sitting there while Billy was telling the stories and I thought, what was this hurting? And then I forgot that there was a baseball game. First game of the year. We got a game every week. So we'll see you out there. Wow. One-no. This is just a fun thing we do at the late show, me and Stephen doing these podcast intros, and I'm going to hit you now because we got, we're going to enjoy every minute of our time together. Very little time and a lot to get done here, yes. Okay, guess the guest. Okay, great. This night's podcast is the first guest of the Late Show. Clooney? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to talk about the first episode. Sure. Oh, come on. Let's do it. And the guests. George and Jeb. Jeff. Yep. Jeb Bush. Yeah. Remember he was going to be president? Yeah, crazy. Crazy, crazy time. Yeah. I recently rewatched the first episode.

2:34.6

Wow.

2:36.3

Crazy time. So I wasn't here yet. I watched the, that holds, so that first act about, or was it the second act, about, it was largely about Donald Trump?

2:44.4

It was about that the news could not fight the temptation to talk about Donald Trump.

2:50.3

And I was criticizing them, but then in the course

2:52.5

of actually doing the act, I can't fight the temptation to talk about him either. Yeah. And I'm

2:58.4

likening him to garbage food. Oreos. Well, yeah, in this case, it was sucking down a sleeve of

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