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2:20

Becca. Hi, Steven. It's Thursday. It's Thursday.

2:22

It's Getaway Day. It's Getaway Day on

2:24

the Late Show pod show. Here we

2:26

are. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no.

2:28

I'm jumping all over you here. Get.

2:30

it. Here we are in our little

2:32

gray foam booth we constructed when we

2:34

came in to take over the show. Ten

2:37

years ago, ten years ago. Ten

2:39

years ago. You weren't even born then.

2:42

No, I am seven. You're seven

2:45

years old. Yeah, well, yeah,

2:47

yeah. Season three was

2:49

great. Season three was great. I caught that.

2:51

When did you start? I started in,

2:53

I was an intern at the beginning of

2:55

2019, and I got hired in the

2:57

fall of 2019. It's hard to remember a

2:59

time before Becca. I mean, well, yeah. The

3:02

BB. The before

3:04

Becca. The before Becca. a dark

3:06

time. Yeah, exactly. Okay,

3:09

so I have a fun podcast today. Hit

3:11

me. That includes the game. So

3:13

this is, I'll do a quiz for

3:15

you first of who this is. This person

3:17

just won the Oscar for Best Actor. Are

3:20

you an Oscar fan? Do you watch the Oscars?

3:23

I don't watch the Oscars. I don't

3:25

watch the awards shows. No,

3:27

no, no, no. Okay, what were

3:29

some of the movies? I saw all

3:32

of them, I think. It was

3:34

long, this one, this movie, and the

3:36

speech. Was

3:38

it Oppenheimer Guy? Was

3:41

it Killian? Or was that the year before? I think it was

3:43

the year before. Oh, hold on. Long

3:45

movie. And he was on the show in

3:47

December. And I'm sure I had a

3:49

great time with him. You had a great time. Give

3:51

me a hint. This

3:54

is terrible. Our show

3:56

is arguably one of the

3:58

crossroads of show business because

4:00

you got a book, you

4:02

got a movie, got a

4:04

TV show, you got

4:06

an extra grind, whatever. You come right

4:08

through the Ed Sullivan Theater and the

4:10

fact that I can't, I just don't

4:12

pay attention to awards shows that much.

4:15

I love everybody's work. I just don't

4:17

like the who was best better. Okay,

4:19

his movie that he won for, was

4:21

so long there was an intermission, if

4:23

you want to go see it in

4:25

a theater. And it

4:27

was this past year. Oh,

4:30

and I love him. It's Adrian. It's

4:32

Adrian Brody. I love Adrian Brody. I

4:35

actually wrote him a letter when he

4:37

was on Succession. Oh, yeah. I forgot

4:39

he was on Succession. He was like

4:41

one and a half show arc or

4:43

something like, or maybe one show. I

4:47

had to write him. I was

4:49

so blown away. Yeah, but I just

4:51

think he's fantastic and everything he

4:53

does feels At one at the same

4:55

time kind of heightened and Real

4:57

at the same time. Yeah, yeah, brilliant.

4:59

Have you ever seen Darjeeling limited

5:01

the Wes Anderson? It is one of

5:03

the two It is one of

5:05

the two Wes Anderson's I haven't seen

5:07

it's I haven't seen that nor

5:09

have I seen French ditch dispatch I

5:11

haven't seen the French one either,

5:13

but Darjeeling limited one of his earlier

5:15

ones Literally one of

5:17

the best male performances I've ever seen. He's

5:19

so good in it. It's such a

5:21

sweet movie. Just three brothers on a train.

5:23

Beautiful. You ever seen Predator? No.

5:26

Oh, yeah. Okay, great. I'll check that

5:28

out. Okay, here's my story with Adrian

5:30

Brody. Last week, I'm going

5:32

home after work. I take, I'm

5:34

on the e -train, right? And I'm getting off my train

5:36

at the exact door that I need to get off

5:38

at to get to the right staircase where I do

5:40

my transfer. You know, I have it all, I have

5:42

it all plotted out by now. This isn't your first

5:44

rodeo. Getting out right by

5:46

my door is Adrian Brody. And he's

5:48

coming in, I'm getting out. And

5:50

it's not like, oh, that guy looked like Adrian

5:53

Brody. Oh, he has a hat and like a

5:55

mask on. He is full. I am Adrian Brody.

5:57

No, no disguise. He has like an impish grin as

5:59

if he knows. Just shy of wearing a shirt

6:01

that says, yep, it's Adrian Brody. And he has like

6:04

an impish grin if he knows you somewhere. He's

6:06

not meant to be wondering will anyone ask him something,

6:08

you know, but so cool. And I was just

6:10

like, oh. I didn't say anything, I just keep walking,

6:12

you know? I don't know him, I don't want

6:14

to bug this guy. But cool little, I

6:16

don't see a lot of famous people outside, so

6:18

it was a cool situation, but it sparked an

6:20

idea in my head for us today. Which

6:23

is that Adrian Brody, I saw him, seems like

6:25

a nice guy, wouldn't bother him on the road.

6:27

I don't know him. Don't know

6:29

what I would ask him. You, Steven,

6:31

my boss, we talk all the time. There

6:33

are some questions I have that I

6:35

want to play a little game with you

6:38

called Celebrity Boss, where I just ask

6:40

you questions about what Experiences

6:42

you might have that are different from

6:44

mine and as being a celebrity. Yes, and

6:46

I promise they won't make you uncomfortable There's

6:48

no personal information divulge. That's fine. My life's

6:50

an open book. Okay, great Okay, first one

6:52

and these can be as rapid fire as

6:54

you want. Yes, sir haircuts Do you go

6:56

somewhere or do they come here? There's this

6:59

person who cuts some people's hair at

7:01

CBS. Okay, that's why I have a CBS

7:03

haircut Oh same person who cuts John John

7:05

Dickerson's hair anchor the color the CBS evening

7:07

is I might have actually learned about Her

7:09

from him, I don't know, but I

7:12

needed a consistent haircut. So every three weeks,

7:14

Fatima comes by and she cuts my

7:16

hair and she's great. Awesome. Cool. Okay, next

7:18

question. Grocery stores. Yes, love Do you

7:20

go? Of course, yeah, I go. I go

7:22

to Kings. I'm a big Kings man.

7:24

Okay, how aware are you of your face

7:27

being in the freezer? What

7:29

you mean? The ice cream. Oh,

7:32

that, my face. Oh, I always check. You

7:34

always check? Everywhere I go that has

7:36

Ben and Jerry's, I always check to see

7:38

whether they have my Ben and Jerry's

7:40

there. As matter of fact, if I'm on

7:42

a road trip, like if I'm driving

7:44

from Charleston to New York or vice versa,

7:46

like at the beginning of the summer,

7:48

I'll do it in just a few weeks

7:50

to bring the dog down there. If

7:53

I'm stopping at a convenience store

7:55

on the way down or a

7:57

grocery store that got it, And

7:59

it almost always has me and

8:01

Fallon. Oh, yeah. And they're next

8:03

to each other. Yeah. And

8:05

I'll make sure the labels are facing properly. And I'll

8:07

take a photo and I'll send it to Fallon. That's

8:10

kind of how we mark the summers is that I

8:12

always, at the beginning of December, I send a photo

8:14

of the two, you know, good luck to both of us,

8:16

because this is high, this is high ice cream time.

8:18

Yeah. This is when we start moving pints here. Oh, sure,

8:20

sure, sure. This is Boomin. Exactly. That's what we kick

8:22

off the summer. I always send them a photo of

8:24

the two, of the two of the

8:26

pints together. Okay, cool. Now, Kings, which

8:28

is a great grocery store, I love Kings, they

8:31

don't carry my ice cream. No way. I

8:33

think maybe whoever owns Kings doesn't like me.

8:35

I feel like I see it all, or

8:37

maybe they're just selling out. Maybe people love

8:39

your ice cream. No, no, I've never seen

8:41

it there. Whoa. Do you go to Kings?

8:43

I've never been to Kings, but feel like

8:45

did. Oh, no, no. I see

8:47

it all over the place. It's a

8:49

quality ice cream. It's one of their

8:51

best sellers. Yeah. And it's one of

8:54

my favorite things we do is

8:56

that all the money that I get

8:58

from this, I have the staff giveaway

9:00

every year at Christmas. It's the best.

9:02

It's the best night of the

9:04

year when I get to read off

9:06

like 125 different charities that are going

9:08

to get $5 ,000 a piece because

9:10

we rake in some, we pull down

9:12

some. duckets off that ice cream, man.

9:14

America has dietary issues and some

9:16

great charities are benefiting from it. So

9:19

all that money goes to charity. And

9:21

so I don't mind pumping it. I

9:24

don't mind really shaking my

9:26

moneymaker for that ice cream because

9:28

it's all going to charity. And

9:31

I don't know why it's not a king's.

9:33

But you know what? I don't, I forgive kings.

9:35

Everybody's got their opinions. Maybe, maybe it's, they

9:37

don't like my comedy. Maybe it's like they don't

9:39

like the things I talk about. And I

9:41

respect, you know, we're all Americans.

9:43

I respect that. I just want

9:45

the people who run kings to know

9:47

that that money doesn't go to

9:49

me. That money goes to charities.

9:51

Maybe charities you care about, kings. So

9:54

I'm just saying, let's talk. Yeah.

9:56

Okay, cool. So next question. Resale

9:59

shopping. I'm assuming you get nice things.

10:01

You know, you make a good, you can

10:03

make a good salary. You know, a

10:05

fancy guy. You're asking me if I'm going

10:07

to pop some tags. I'm asking, are

10:09

you? $20 in my pocket. I'm

10:11

asking, do you ever go on eBay and just

10:13

look for a little Chashki? Or like, do you ever

10:15

go to like a flea market? No, I look

10:17

on eBay for very, very specific things. Like I want,

10:20

I want, you know, I found on

10:22

eBay sometimes is that I'm looking

10:24

for Art from people

10:26

who aren't necessarily considered

10:28

artists, or rather aren't

10:30

considered fine artists. Like,

10:33

for instance, I want, you

10:35

know, E .E. Cummings painted a lot of watercolors, and

10:37

I love Cummings, so I wanted to, I think

10:39

I got, I think I got an E .E. Cummings

10:41

off of eBay. Like an old E .E. Cummings watercolor. And

10:44

with, you know, with papers and

10:46

stuff like that, I

10:48

look for very

10:50

specific things. Like,

10:52

I think... got

10:55

a friend who really

10:57

loves World War One

10:59

and so I bought

11:01

like a cavalry sword

11:03

from World War One

11:05

from him. I recently

11:07

got a Royal Flying

11:10

Corps, the English Royal

11:12

Flying Corps, a sterling

11:14

silver bookmark that's emblazoned with

11:16

a Royal Flying Corps from

11:18

World War I emblem on it

11:20

to give to my friend who had

11:23

done me a wonderful favor and

11:25

I know he was he's kind of

11:27

obsessed with World War I and

11:29

I'm always thinking what could I possibly

11:31

get him because he's a man

11:33

of great means and there's a guy

11:35

who has like World War I

11:37

planes and and I went what could

11:39

I get him he doesn't have

11:41

so yeah you know okay so that's

11:43

a cool answer but fancy eBay

11:45

you're on eBay but it's fancy eBay

11:47

a little bit what's non -fancy here's

11:49

my question so I also got

11:51

off eBay okay yeah I've bought a

11:53

series of espresso martini glasses. Oh,

11:55

nice. So they have coffee beans etched

11:57

on the side and stuff like

11:59

that. Oh, hell yeah. That's really nice.

12:01

And those were cheap. OK, but

12:03

you were not born famous. You had

12:05

some years in Chicago. I

12:07

was not. I had some years in

12:09

New York I was roughing it too,

12:11

but go ahead. But is there an

12:14

item you're the proudest of? And I'll

12:16

give you my example. I once on

12:18

the side the road in Ohio bought

12:20

a shoe -shaped chair for $7. And

12:22

that is it, you know, it was new to me.

12:24

I still have, of course I did. It was beautiful and

12:26

it's very comfortable. The slope of the stiletto is very

12:28

nice for the arch in your back. It's very nice. Do

12:31

you have any, do you have any like

12:33

big bargains? I was living in New York.

12:35

I was unemployed. I don't

12:37

recommend being in a city with a

12:39

wife who at the time was

12:41

also unemployed and a baby who refused

12:43

to get a job and And

12:45

another baby on the way and I

12:47

was unemployed and that is not

12:49

something I reckon I'd already I'd already

12:52

done some TV work in New

12:54

York, but you know, I hadn't I

12:56

wasn't established I Wasn't really established.

12:58

You know, I had some friends, but

13:00

I didn't I didn't really have

13:02

a support system yet and I was

13:04

walking down the street near the

13:06

the Met Museum And there were people

13:08

selling used books on blankets on

13:10

the street and I found a book

13:12

I think I bought the book

13:15

for ten dollars and It was falling

13:17

apart the book was like just

13:19

coming apart in my hands, but it

13:21

was a book of Peter Arnaud

13:23

who was a great New Yorker cartoonist,

13:25

Peter Arnaud cartoons, I think from

13:27

the 1930s, so the early days, so

13:29

because this is the 100th anniversary

13:31

of the New Yorker, so in the

13:33

first 10, 15 years of the

13:36

New Yorker, and they're great, and they

13:38

were full, really good quality paper,

13:40

really good quality prints, and just page

13:42

after page, like with no text

13:44

on, only one big New Yorker cartoon

13:46

on every page, and page after

13:48

page with them. and like they're good

13:50

enough prints that they didn't have

13:52

printing on the back. There was only

13:54

one sided and I found like

13:56

the eight that I loved the most

13:59

and I had them framed. Oh

14:01

nice. And I still have four of

14:03

them. That's really beautiful. Three of

14:05

them hang at home. Yeah. And two

14:07

of them and one of them

14:09

is in my office here. Oh nice.

14:11

That's a perfect And all related

14:13

to like high -flying like rich people

14:15

in New York behaving badly. Cool. They're

14:17

really nice. Cool. Oh, that's a

14:19

great treasure. Okay, that's a great treasure.

14:22

And they cost me like, and

14:24

the frames were, because it was a

14:26

standard -sized paper, the frames were like

14:28

dime store frames, and we still

14:30

have them. Yeah, yeah. And so it

14:32

cost me nothing. And people go,

14:34

oh, where'd you get this original Peter

14:36

Arno? I'm like, yeah, it's not.

14:38

Cool. Cool.

14:41

Okay, restaurants. Yes. Here's my

14:43

coach about restaurants. Yes. How does it work

14:45

when your photo gets put on the wall?

14:47

Did they come you? That's funny. I'm

14:50

sure it's happened to you. Yeah, it has. There

14:52

are some places where my photo is on the wall.

14:54

Is it a lot? How does

14:56

it happen? Did they print out a photo?

14:59

They said, would you sign this photo? Yeah.

15:01

And then I signed the photo and I

15:03

say, your pastrami's the best. Awesome. Stephen Colbert,

15:05

something like that. I had a

15:07

bit that I wanted to do.

15:09

I believe I pitched this when I

15:11

tried to be a writer on

15:13

Conan O 'Brien's show. Oh, cool. Back

15:15

in 19... 1993

15:19

I think that's when he started in

15:21

93 and Robert Smogel who was his

15:23

first exact really wanted Conan to hire

15:25

me to be a writer performer on

15:27

the show and Conan did not He

15:30

repeatedly did not matter of fact when

15:32

I at the at the Mark Twain

15:34

Awards, which will come out in May

15:36

That's basically all I talk about is

15:38

the number of times Conan didn't hire

15:40

me. So that's coming out. That's coming

15:43

up. Yeah, great and so One

15:46

of the things I pitched was

15:48

to reunite stars with their sandwiches

15:50

Is like go to like like

15:52

I was in someplace and was

15:54

like there's like you know Let's

15:58

say it's Joe Manganiella, whatever. It was like, your

16:00

pastrami is the best. And then you go and

16:02

you talk to the guy at the deli and

16:04

you go, tell me about that photo. How'd that

16:06

come about? Tell me about

16:08

the sandwich. What do you remember about the sandwich?

16:10

And then you talk to the star and you

16:12

go, here's the photo. Do you remember signing this?

16:14

What was that back? Talk me through that sandwich.

16:17

And then we maybe rush him on the sandwich.

16:19

Like, is this the sandwich you remember? And

16:21

then you come in and then we

16:23

reunite the person, not with the owner.

16:26

We reunite the person with the sandwich. And

16:29

then they say, now all these years later,

16:31

would you still say the same thing about

16:33

this sandwich? I believe that was one of

16:35

my pitches. Do you still co -sign the

16:37

sandwich? Yeah. I did not get

16:39

hired. That's a really good bit.

16:42

That's great. Is there a place that

16:45

you were proud or excited that they would ask?

16:47

you remember the first time it happened? Because I'm

16:49

always like... My dad - I don't remember. I

16:51

don't remember. I mean, there's a - a couple places

16:53

in - I'm sorry, go ahead. You were gonna

16:55

ask something else. No, I was just gonna say

16:57

that my dad called me on the phone when

16:59

a falafel place that our family has been going

17:01

to for 20 years. He called me on the

17:04

phone when they didn't have to ask him his

17:06

name when he was picking up because they recognized

17:08

him and knew his name was Norm. He called

17:10

me and he told me that it had happened

17:12

because he was so excited. Wow. There's a bagel

17:14

place in - in New Jersey. Mm -hmm. And that

17:16

I really love. and

17:18

they do other things like

17:20

sandwiches and stuff. I usually

17:23

go in and get ham,

17:25

egg, and cheese on a

17:27

Kaiser. Just a little mustard,

17:29

salt and pepper, no ketchup, please. Unbelievable.

17:32

What a great way to start the day. A

17:34

cup of coffee and maybe a tropical can of

17:36

orange juice. I know it's all sugar. And

17:39

it doesn't matter, I'm trying to recover. And

17:42

they have a sandwich named after me. They have the

17:44

Colbert. The other cold bear,

17:46

which is pretty good. It's a

17:48

chicken cutlet sandwich with like arugula

17:50

and a balsamic dressing and sun

17:52

-dried tomatoes. It's pretty good. And

17:54

then - Did you pick that sandwich? You made sandwich? They

17:57

made it and said, what do you think? Okay. They

17:59

sent one home with me and goes, we're thinking of doing

18:01

this cold bear. What do you think? And I took

18:03

a taste and said, I would order this. Cool. This is

18:05

good. All you want is a sandwich that you would

18:07

order. Yeah. And by the way, Ben and Jerry's, you know,

18:09

I got a Bear and Jerry's flavor, they

18:11

don't say what kind of ice cream

18:13

would you like. Yeah, they sent me

18:15

three choices because they say years go

18:17

in developing every ice cream Well, and

18:19

they sent me three different choices and

18:21

I they're unmarked Pints they just have

18:23

numbers written on the outside and on

18:26

the lid and I took it home

18:28

to my kids who were young I

18:30

mean they were little my my youngest

18:32

how long have I had that since

18:34

had 18 years I've had that ice

18:36

cream. Yeah, so he was Five Wow,

18:38

yeah, and then Peter was eight and

18:40

Madeline was 11 or something and they

18:42

I Said what do you guys think

18:44

and they all went this one and

18:46

that's that was the one that had

18:49

the fudge covered Waffle chunks and on

18:51

vanilla ice cream with a swirl of

18:53

caramel and we're like okay ice cream

18:55

cone It's gonna be American dream perfect.

18:57

Yeah, that's how that came about They're

18:59

not messing around but they have a

19:01

choice you had a choice between you

19:03

didn't build it you had a choice

19:05

between yeah, and then The

19:08

other place that I I used to

19:10

have my face up had it was

19:12

a sign cover of when I was

19:14

on cover of Newsweek. They asked me

19:16

to sign that and That was a

19:18

place called watch on deli in Montgrain,

19:20

New Jersey telling us about this. I

19:22

had the greatest sandwich called the angry

19:24

dwarf This was a beautiful story about

19:26

the sandwich. Oh, beautiful. Yeah, the sandwich

19:28

started, and it's a pretty basic sandwich

19:30

with a sausage with provolone, a sausage

19:32

with turkey, you know,

19:34

spicy turkey with provolone, mayonnaise,

19:36

tomatoes, oh, onions,

19:38

thin sliced onion on there, and

19:40

then open -face broiled, and then toasty,

19:42

you know, Quiznos was not a

19:44

Quiznos. And they love it so

19:47

much that they sent some to

19:49

work for me. Wow. Like they

19:51

would send these sandwiches to work.

19:53

If they came to show, they

19:55

would bring me an angry dwarf.

19:57

Like they knew me well enough

19:59

to bring me an angry dwarf.

20:01

And then when they shut down,

20:03

right? during or right

20:05

after COVID. You know, they had

20:07

a rough ride of it. And they gave

20:09

me a book of all the recipes

20:11

of all the sandwiches. And I

20:14

keep it at home. Occasionally I'll bust

20:16

it open and make myself an angry

20:18

dwarf or something like that. What was

20:20

the story of the name again? Oh,

20:22

the angry dwarf was, there was

20:24

some very kind of rude kid, very

20:27

pushy kid. would come in

20:29

and say, I want this, I want this, I want that.

20:31

And so they go, that's the angry dwarfs here again. for

20:35

this kid who would demand this particular

20:37

sandwich they named at the Angry Dwarf. Fun

20:39

fact, my friend Ben grew up in Montclair,

20:41

loved that deli. Yeah, you talked to him

20:43

about it? They had a sandwich called Ben

20:45

Special and that's his band name. He named

20:48

his band after that sandwich because it's his

20:50

name and he loved the sandwich. Do they

20:52

name a sandwich for him or just he

20:54

shared the name? He shared the name and

20:56

liked the sandwich. So it's called Ben Special's

20:58

band? Yeah. Where are they at? Where are

21:00

they? They're on the Spotify, they're in

21:02

the Brooklyn, they're a great band, great band.

21:05

Well, a special should get to know Evil

21:07

Twin, my son's band. Oh yeah, get on

21:09

a bill. But anyways, sandwich stories. Okay, wait,

21:11

next thing, last one. My favorite game we've

21:13

played on this so far. Dogs on the

21:15

Street. Have you ever met one that seemed like

21:17

they knew who you were? Dogs are

21:19

watching TV, dogs at TV's on. No. Do

21:21

you greet dogs on the street? Oh, I

21:24

love greeting dogs on the street. Okay, good.

21:26

Maybe in a doorway. On the

21:28

street, the person's busy, you don't want to

21:30

get in the way of their dog.

21:32

But anywhere, that's the dog's at in a

21:34

moment of hiatus. You know,

21:36

if the dog's going someplace with their

21:38

master, I don't want to interrupt because

21:40

I don't want anybody messing with my

21:42

dog. But if we're, you know, stoplight,

21:45

crosswalk, doorway,

21:47

whatever, moment, just a moment

21:49

of hiatus, I'd love to

21:51

engage with the dog. Okay, great. Great to

21:53

know that's not affected. Okay, so dogs. recognizing

21:56

dogs, dogs recognizing you. Benny,

22:00

my niece, the

22:02

wonderful Lucy. Oh, love Lucy. Lucy

22:05

stayed with us. She

22:07

had been over in Europe

22:09

visiting some friends in

22:11

Amsterdam. What we didn't know is

22:14

that she brought it back as a present, a

22:16

bunch of a really

22:18

good Dutch chocolate. Like

22:21

some dark chocolate some milk chocolate a

22:23

big like this big like kind of 20

22:25

ounce bars like really really big bars

22:27

many a three of them Oh, no, and

22:29

dogs can't handle chocolate poison for them.

22:31

It's really really bad And it was to

22:33

like European dark chocolate bars and then

22:35

a European milk chocolate bar that is folk

22:37

a cow that'll that'll put you down

22:39

and We freaked out but she what she

22:41

didn't she wasn't thinking through it just

22:43

it was in her luggage her luggage was

22:45

open and it was his damn fault

22:47

He went rooting through her luggage because he

22:49

smelled food. I'm

22:54

getting hydrogen peroxide in him to

22:56

get him to vomit, and I'm

22:58

just walking him around New York.

23:01

I actually, when I went to go get the

23:03

hydrogen peroxide, I had to go

23:05

down to a 24 -hour CVS that was

23:07

near us. I walk into

23:09

the CVS, and here I am.

23:11

It's summertime, hot. I'm wearing

23:13

shorts. I'm raggedy old t -shirt, baseball cap,

23:15

and I got my dog who's kind of

23:17

going, Like,

23:20

you know, he's not looking his best. And I

23:22

get the hydrogen peroxide and I put it on

23:24

the counter and the woman immediately knows, like, oh,

23:26

the dog is like that. But there's a woman

23:28

behind me. And

23:31

she goes, oh, hi. And

23:33

I'm like, oh, I, whatever.

23:35

And I turn around and she's leaning down

23:37

and she's talking to Benny. And

23:39

she's going, hi, Benny. She

23:42

knows Benny. And she

23:44

was talking to Benny. She was talking to Benny.

23:46

That's really... of the times we've talked about

23:48

Benny on the show. Yeah. Or maybe she saw

23:50

him on Doggist or whatever like that. And

23:52

she was kind of like, she gave me like

23:54

a minute of attention like, hey, yeah, nice

23:56

to meet you. Oh, a Benny. Like she was

23:58

all very Benny. And, uh,

24:01

and that kind of, I think that pulled

24:03

him back. I think the attention pulled him

24:05

back because he never, I got that hydrogen

24:07

peroxide in him. He never threw up and

24:09

he was fine at a certain point. He

24:11

goes, can we, cause it's late at this

24:13

point. like, can we just go to

24:15

bed? I'm going to be fine. I don't know

24:17

what y 'all are worried about. And sure

24:19

enough, he was absolutely fine. fine? Oh, what a

24:21

treat. Yeah, he had a racing heartbeat, but that

24:23

was about it. Yeah. Wow. That's really a good

24:25

story. It's kind of nice, you

24:27

know? Oh, sure. Hi. Hi. Oh,

24:29

thank you. Oh, you're talking to the dog. Yeah. I

24:31

mean, I say hi to dogs on the street

24:33

that are walking, and their owners sometimes think I'm talking

24:35

to them. But I make sure to make eye

24:38

contact at the dog, who I'm more excited to see.

24:41

OK, this is my last question. Reels

24:43

you enjoy reels. I enjoy a shrimp. Yes.

24:45

I do. Yeah, I assume this is

24:47

through a Instagram Do you have like a

24:50

fake private account or are you on

24:52

the like? Steven

24:54

cobert? This is check

24:56

this is this is this is a private

24:58

account. Okay, so my question about this

25:00

is do you enjoy the sort of anonymity

25:02

that a private account brings you or

25:04

do you ever find someone who's like this

25:07

person's so funny They're doing bits on

25:09

these reels. I'm gonna go over to my

25:11

main account And just say ha ha

25:13

from Stephen Colbert or something like that. You

25:15

know, do you ever I'll go follow

25:17

them on my actual account. Oh, nice. I

25:19

don't follow anyone on the my festa.

25:22

Yeah, and I'll follow them on my real

25:24

account and then some people go like,

25:26

oh, hey, they'll recognize because it's the show

25:28

account. Yeah. Oh, hey Thanks for following.

25:30

Oh, great. Thanks. I really love your music

25:32

or whatever it is. That's yeah, nice

25:34

nice But the Finsta is nice. The Finsta

25:37

is a nice way for you to

25:39

lurk like any other internet lurker, you know?

25:41

It's nice anonymity there, cool. No

25:43

one will ever find it. Okay, and then this

25:45

is just more of a comment I want to

25:47

make about the biggest thing I've noticed about you,

25:49

my celebrity boss, is the way you handle spam

25:51

phone calls, and I love it. Well,

25:55

I do two ways. One

25:57

is to say, like, pronto. I'll

26:01

answer them and just... pretend like

26:03

I can't speak English, which is a

26:05

lot of fun. And

26:08

the other thing is I'll say, oh,

26:10

no, I really want to, oh, that

26:12

sounds fascinating. No, no, no,

26:14

I really do need that product, whatever it

26:16

is. And I go, hold on one second,

26:18

I just got something in the oven. Hold

26:20

on one second, I'll be right back. And

26:22

then I'll put the phone down. And

26:25

then I'll go about my day. And I'll

26:27

occasionally walk by and go, I'm sorry, there was someone

26:29

at the door. Like that, and then I'll

26:31

pick it up and go, I'm sorry, are you still there?

26:33

And they'll go, yeah, we're still here, can we, so I want

26:35

to talk to you about your car and trust like, oh,

26:37

damn it, I'm sorry. The baby, I'm

26:39

sorry, I can't get the baby, whatever, like that. And I just

26:41

see how long I can give the person. Wow, I

26:43

love that. Am I a bad guy? Does that make me

26:45

a bad guy? No, it's not, it's fun. Everybody has fun

26:47

with spam phone calls, and they have no idea who you

26:49

are. That's why I think it's so fun that they could

26:51

be getting pranked by someone and they have no idea it's

26:54

Stephen Colbert. I love that, yeah, it's really good, it's a

26:56

good bit. Anyways,

26:58

those are my questions. Those are my questions.

27:00

Did I win? Yeah, yeah, yeah. The

27:02

sandwich, the sandwich stuff, that was a

27:04

great story. I didn't expect you to

27:06

already have thought of the bit there,

27:08

but great. Well, we have Adrienne Brody

27:10

on the podcast. We're still on that

27:12

episode. Yeah, yeah. This

27:15

is a long intro. celebrity I couldn't

27:17

to. This might be a longer intro

27:19

than the actual interview you're about to

27:21

hear. Yeah, that's possible. But we're fascinating

27:23

too. We don't have Oscars. Yeah, yeah. We

27:26

got a lot of other stuff going for us and we have a

27:28

good time. All right, well, thanks for answering

27:30

my questions. Have a great break. Have a great break.

27:32

Bye. Bye, Steven. Welcome

27:38

back, everybody. Ladies

27:40

and gentlemen, my first guest this

27:42

evening is an Academy Award -winning actor

27:45

you know from the Grand Budapest Hotel,

27:47

Succession, and The Pianist, and so

27:49

much more. His latest film is The

27:51

Brutalist. Please welcome back to the

27:53

late show, Adrienne Brody. You

28:01

guys are a great audience. You

28:04

guys are a great audience. This is so nice

28:06

to see you again. Thank you. Did you park your

28:08

motorcycle out front? Yeah, no. What

28:10

gang are we in now, Adrian? tonight. I

28:12

didn't ride. Yeah, exactly. Nice to see you

28:14

again. Lovely to see you. Thank you for

28:16

me. The new film, The Brutalist, is already

28:18

getting extraordinary reviews. I cannot wait to see

28:20

it. I feel like the

28:22

trailer deserves an award at

28:25

this point. It's so beautiful. It

28:27

looks like a work of

28:29

such soaring artistic and emotional ambition.

28:31

It's about an architect named... There's

28:34

a Hungarian who comes to the United

28:36

States escaping, you know, the war -torn

28:38

Europe, and finding his way in this

28:40

new country, you know, the difficulty of

28:42

that. And I understand this hits home

28:45

personally for you in a way that

28:47

I wasn't aware of. Tell the people

28:49

why. Yes, very much so. I mean,

28:51

some of you may know my mother

28:53

is a wonderful photographer, very well -respected photographer

28:55

named Sylvia Plahi, and she

28:58

is a Hungarian -born...

29:00

artists and she and

29:02

my grandparents fled Hungary

29:04

in 1956 during the

29:06

revolution and so her

29:08

journey and You know

29:10

the the struggles and

29:12

sacrifices along the way

29:14

of that immigrant experience

29:16

is very personal to

29:18

me because I am

29:20

the son of a

29:23

Hungarian immigrant so It's

29:25

a big honor for

29:27

me to in part

29:29

some of the insight I have

29:31

into that and then I think

29:33

speaks to many people of all

29:35

backgrounds and it's part of what

29:37

shapes this wonderful nation. Pardon

29:40

me for asking. Your mother's

29:42

still with us? Yes. And did

29:44

you discuss this role with

29:46

her? Did you talk about Oh,

29:48

yes. Oh, yes. And she's

29:51

been a guiding light for this.

29:53

And my grandfather in particular,

29:55

whose very pronounced Hungarian accent was

29:58

something I channeled for this character.

30:00

We worked very hard with a

30:02

dialect coach, but I found truth

30:04

in that. It was so intimate

30:06

for my whole youth of what

30:08

I grew up around. Not just

30:10

the voice, but a certain Hungarian

30:13

sensibility. How would you describe it?

30:15

I have a couple of friends

30:17

I know from Hungary. How would

30:19

you describe the Hungarian sensibility? They're

30:23

wonderfully enthusiastic

30:26

and and passionate

30:28

and somewhat

30:30

outspoken. And it's

30:32

a good quality. It's kind of

30:34

like if you know New Yorkers and

30:36

New Yorkers are similar in that

30:38

respect, I think. But if you're not

30:40

familiar with it, it's... sometimes, you

30:42

know, you don't know if it's a

30:45

joke or if it is a

30:47

joke, there's a lot of truth in

30:49

it. Dark humor. They don't

30:51

really hide that. And then they say

30:53

it was a joke. And like, there's

30:55

a lot of truth in that, Grandma.

30:59

We have a clip here that we

31:02

want to show. What do we

31:04

need to know about this? It's you

31:06

and Guy Pierce. Yes. So this

31:08

is a moment where... Laszlo

31:10

Toth, my character, comes

31:12

to America and he

31:14

had done a project

31:16

to renovate Guy's character's

31:18

library in his home

31:20

and had been kicked

31:22

out in a fury

31:24

and now Van Buren,

31:26

Guy's character, comes to

31:28

find him and he

31:30

does a little research

31:32

on Laszlo and he

31:34

discovers all of these

31:37

buildings that he had created back

31:39

in Europe. And

31:41

Laszlo is amazed that they

31:43

still exist because his understanding

31:45

was that most would have

31:47

been demolished during the Nazi

31:50

occupation. Jim.

31:54

These are yours, yes? All

32:02

day long, in

32:04

my life, you

32:07

are in my

32:09

heart. Yes. All

32:11

of them? Yes.

32:21

I'm sorry. Have I upset

32:23

you? No.

32:28

The at all.

32:30

did not

32:32

realize these images

32:34

were still

32:36

available, Much less

32:38

any consequence. May

32:41

I keep this? course,

32:43

you may. You're

32:46

very artistic. It's

32:53

so beautiful. We

32:58

have take a quick break right

33:00

here. We'll be right back with more

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34:44

Brody. At one point in

34:46

the movie, your character, Lazlo Toth,

34:48

is asked, why architecture? Adrian

34:51

Brody, why acting? You

34:55

know the old joke about, like, writing

34:57

about music? He's like dancing about architecture?

35:00

a painter. Paint me

35:02

about acting. Why acting? I'm

35:04

plagiarizing this, but it

35:07

beats working for a living.

35:11

And it didn't occur to me

35:13

before he asked me the

35:15

question. I mean, I am so

35:17

grateful to have found acting

35:19

and for acting to have found

35:21

me. And I do owe

35:23

that to my mother as well.

35:26

She had an assignment to

35:28

photograph an acting school when I

35:30

was a boy and saw

35:32

that I love people and study

35:34

people and human individuality. And

35:36

I would always kind of tell

35:39

stories. And

35:41

so she just saw that I had,

35:43

it would be a right, a

35:45

good fit for me. And it also

35:47

kept me off hanging out on

35:49

the streets of Queens. So... Look at

35:51

now. Anybody else in

35:53

your family? Like, are you descended

35:55

from actors or anybody? No, although

35:58

my grandfather aspired to be

36:00

an actor here. I mean... Hungarian

36:02

grandfather? My Hungarian grandfather, yes,

36:04

my mother's father. We

36:06

are very similar in a lot of

36:08

ways. I mean, he... He got

36:10

a job as a kind

36:12

of tertiary role in a play

36:14

on Broadway of Zorba the

36:16

Greek. It's my understanding. And

36:18

he was required to dance, which

36:21

I don't think he was a great dancer.

36:25

But there was a moment where

36:27

the director had made some choices

36:29

and my grandfather piped up and

36:31

told him how he thinks he

36:33

should do it. Which

36:37

I can relate to.

36:39

My poor grandfather got

36:41

fired. So

36:43

there went his acting dreams. There you

36:45

go. Do you do that

36:47

too? I do tend to do that. Maybe

36:49

it's the Hungarian in me. Exactly.

36:52

I tend to... It's

36:55

my humble opinion, but I think you might want to put

36:57

the camera over. It'll

36:59

become a little closer. You

37:02

know, Wes Anderson, does everything have to be symmetrical? No,

37:04

definitely not. I mean, most directors

37:06

I've worked with do not need symmetry,

37:08

fortunately for me and for the

37:11

kind of movies we'd remake. Well, much

37:13

like your character, you have

37:15

an interest in design and

37:17

restoration. If we were to

37:19

drop in to your crib,

37:21

what would be the design

37:23

aesthetic that we would experience?

37:25

I have a pretty eclectic

37:27

case. I do like to

37:29

integrate things that have moved

37:31

me or that I've found

37:33

along the way in my

37:35

travels. I don't want to

37:37

digress from this too much,

37:39

but when I made the

37:41

Darjeeling Limited with Wes Anderson

37:43

and Owen Wilson, I

37:45

envisioned I tried

37:48

to figure out how I could buy one

37:50

of the train cars that we shot in

37:52

to ship it home and put it in

37:54

the countryside and I thought would be an

37:56

amazing thing. And it was such an enormous

37:58

cost to ship alone a train car. So

38:00

I ended up not doing it. But

38:03

then I went to Owen

38:05

Wilson's house and he just asked

38:07

for a door. And

38:09

it is so beautiful on his

38:11

wall. It's a work of art. And

38:13

I am so mad that my

38:15

vision is So big. But

38:17

I tend to find things

38:19

that are unique, that are

38:22

fun in the house. And

38:24

I went antique shopping in

38:26

the countryside. And I

38:28

found this beautiful old slot

38:30

machine. nice antique slot

38:32

machine. Yeah, one -armed bandit.

38:35

And not that I'm a huge gambler, but I

38:38

thought it just looked nice. Sure, sure. And

38:41

it was so beautiful. I bought

38:43

it. We loaded it in the

38:45

hatch. And I'm

38:47

driving home. And

38:49

you guys remember that movie, Big?

38:51

I think most of you weren't

38:53

born yet, but yeah. Zoltan.

38:55

I actually, exactly, Zoltan. I

38:58

auditioned to play him in that movie. I was

39:00

a child actor, and I auditioned to

39:02

play Tom Hanks as a boy, but I didn't

39:05

get the role. Anyhow.

39:07

Would have been a good movie. Would have been

39:09

a... If

39:11

only they had hired me. Exactly. It

39:14

would have been better for me for

39:16

sure. Anyhow, we're

39:18

driving home and

39:20

this eerie kind of

39:23

mystical music starts

39:25

emanating from this unplugged

39:27

slot machine in

39:29

the hatchback. And it

39:31

starts playing. And it's playing

39:34

and playing. And I'm like,

39:36

I scored. I got a

39:38

haunted slot machine. I

39:41

scored. I mean, I thought this is

39:43

going to be amazing. I don't know

39:45

what would, and I bring it home,

39:47

and I'm trying to understand what, maybe

39:50

there's some battery that remains, but

39:52

this is old. I get

39:54

it home, and it turns out

39:56

the poor woman who sold it

39:58

to me had opened it up

40:00

to show me how it worked

40:02

and how the mechanism worked, and

40:04

she forgot her cell in it.

40:07

she was frantically calling for me

40:09

to pick up. That

40:13

That was so disappointed. Well,

40:16

Adrian, lovely to see you again. Thank you so much for being

40:18

here. Thank

40:22

you for listening to the Late Show Pod

40:24

Show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more

40:26

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