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The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen's Audience Q&A: Colbert's Favorite Interview

The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

CBS

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

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Every night before taping the show, our host takes a few questions from the audience. In this never-before-heard podcast exclusive, Stephen describes what he misses about filming The Late Show from home, what books made him a reader, and who his meaningful interview was with and why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From the host house, whoever you are, there's a welcome there for Ruth and Faye, Mahamadan Jose.

0:07.0

From the host house, whether it's work, rest or play, listen to my podcast.

0:12.0

It's packed full of meaty goodness. From the host house, with Alan Partridge.

0:18.0

There's a welcome there for straight and K, and he and she and they, from the host house.

0:24.0

From the host house, the Alan Partridge podcast series three.

0:27.0

Now, subscription required, see audible.co.uk for tons.

0:31.0

It's the Rachel Pacho with Stephen Cobain.

0:38.0

Are there any questions I can answer before we get going here? Yes, ma'am. I saw you first in the middle.

0:43.0

I was just wondering who came up with a bit about, it's kind of a long-running bit,

0:48.0

where you ask people from the audience or you ask people for fans

0:54.0

to make up names for the ex-president, so you wouldn't have to say his name anymore.

1:00.0

I think we saw, Tom, how did that start? Do we saw, we saw some online, people, or do I, we made up some.

1:08.0

So what happened was, this is Tom Purcell, my showrunner, Tom Coenair.

1:16.0

So what happened was, Stephen, you said, emotionally you never want to say his name again.

1:22.0

That's right, yeah, yeah.

1:26.0

That was, I believe that was, after November 5th, 2020, yeah.

1:30.0

Yeah, and like in a script that Matt Lapin and I were working on, I decided to just throw it in there

1:38.0

and see what happened of like inviting the audience. Yeah, inviting the audience to do it at this hashtag.

1:43.0

Yes, he who must not be named. And we threw it up there.

1:47.0

And we've got thousands of them now. Yeah, we were thinking that nobody would really be into it.

1:51.0

Everybody's going to be into it.

1:53.0

Everybody's going to be into it.

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