Teyana Taylor | Speech Less
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The only people who liked President Trump’s State of the Union speech were the thirstiest MAGA buttkissers, it’s unclear why the DOJ didn’t search Jeffrey Epstein’s storage units despite having a warrant, and Stephen takes a look at a big fight brewing between the Pentagon and an artificial intelligence company. GRAMMY- and Oscar-nominated singer and actress Teyana Taylor is basking in the well-deserved glow of praise she’s receiving for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in “One Battle After Another.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome one and all in here, out there, |
| 0:06.0 | Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea to the Late Show. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, right off the back, right off the feed. |
| 0:15.0 | Right at the top, I have some shocking news. |
| 0:19.0 | It is Wednesday. |
| 0:23.2 | Which can't possibly be true because I definitely watched the president speak for at least three days last night. |
| 0:30.7 | We're still all recovering from the president's bramble, ramble, brain jamble. |
| 0:35.8 | But the reviews are in, and they are the bad. |
| 0:39.1 | The New York Times said it was a tedious and tiresome performance. |
| 0:42.2 | The Atlantic said the State of the Union revealed a sad reality. |
| 0:46.4 | And Jeffrey Epstein said, I almost died from boredom. |
| 0:49.2 | Oops, I mean, I'm already dead. |
| 0:51.8 | Don't look into it. |
| 0:53.9 | I found the... |
| 0:55.0 | There you are. |
| 0:58.2 | That's great. |
| 0:59.7 | Okay. |
| 1:00.7 | There you go. |
| 1:02.3 | I found the speech both boring and disturbing |
| 1:05.7 | or diswarbing. |
| 1:09.6 | And the people agreed |
| 1:11.0 | with a poll showing it was the least |
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