Stephen Presents: George Clooney
4/28/202620 min
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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First 90 secondsStephen Colbert· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi, Becca.
Becca0:05
Hi, Stephen. How's it going?
Stephen Colbert· Host0:07
It's going pretty well. This is, uh, our podcast intros for our last break before the end of The Late Show.
Becca0:14
Yeah. This is it.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:15
This is it.
Becca0:15
This is the last Stephen Presents.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:16
The final hiatus.
Becca0:17
Yeah. Yeah.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:18
Yeah.
Becca0:18
It is. It is.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:19
After this, every break I have is semi-permanent.
Becca0:22
We're not talking about the end yet 'cause here, it might be the last podcast, but I still got another five weeks of hanging out with you, you know?
Stephen Colbert· Host0:28
That's true.
Becca0:28
Another month of hanging out, so we're not saying goodbye.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:30
And the thing is, but people 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."
Becca0:37
Yeah.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:37
"Or just as fun." You know, like, it's, not to put it, you know, not to put it on the downside. Uh, and so it doesn't, it- I- d- physically it doesn't feel like the show is ending.
Becca0:47
Yeah.
Stephen Colbert· Host0:47
Because you gotta, you gotta run through the tape every day.
Becca0:50
Well, also we've done, what, 1,700 of these at this point, so like- At the end it'll be 1,810- Yeah ...
Stephen Colbert· Host0:55
is the total number.
Becca0:56
So it feels like a normal day, 'cause we're doing what we always do- [laughs] ... which is a show that day. But then- Engaging in recreational exhaustion ... something happened the other day where it hit 80 for the first time.
Stephen Colbert· Host1:07
Ooh.
Becca1:07
And everyone kind of had a senioritis, it's almost summertime vibe.
Stephen Colbert· Host1:12
Oh, you mean 80 degrees, yeah.
Becca1:13
Yeah. It was almost 80 degrees, and there was just a vibe of like, "Oh, it's summer. This is, like, an exciting time."
Stephen Colbert· Host1:19
Yes.
Becca1:19
But then also, "Oh, it's summer." [laughs] [laughs] "And we all know what happens this summer," you know?
Stephen Colbert· Host1:25
Yeah.
Becca1:26
So it was, emotions were high yesterday, but nice.
Stephen Colbert· Host1:28
Yeah.
Becca1:28
And we got, we won the