Stephen Colbert Answers 15-Question Colbert Questionert With 14 Celebrity Friends on Penultimate Late Show
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Updated · Rolling Stone · May 21
Stephen Colbert Answers 15-Question Colbert Questionert With 14 Celebrity Friends on Penultimate Late Show
12 articles · Updated · Rolling Stone · May 21
Stephen Colbert turned the “Colbert Questionert” on himself in The Late Show’s penultimate episode, with John Dickerson introducing 14 celebrity friends to ask the segment’s 15 signature questions.
Billy Crystal opened with the best-sandwich prompt, drawing Colbert’s pick of Katz’s Deli hot pastrami, while Josh Brolin got “trapdoor spider” as his answer for the scariest animal.
Mark Hamill’s autograph question prompted a Steve Martin story, and Tiffany Haddish’s airplane-seat prompt led Colbert to joke that he chooses aisle seats because he has “the bladder of a baby chipmunk.”
Evie McGee Colbert asked his favorite smell, drawing a romantic answer about her rose lotion, before Dickerson closed by asking him to describe the rest of his life in five words: “My family, my friends, fun.”
The segment capped a recurring Late Show bit previously used on guests including Prince Harry, Barack Obama, Keanu Reeves, Bad Bunny, Meryl Streep, Bono and Ian McKellen.
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