{"id":656184,"date":"2026-05-21T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656184\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:35:08","slug":"the-late-show-brings-out-a-list-stars-to-give-stephen-colbert-his-viral-questionert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656184\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Late Show’ brings out A-list stars to give Stephen Colbert his viral ‘Questionert’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert continued winding down his run on CBS\u2019 \u201cLate Show,\u201d<\/a> with his penultimate show on Wednesday where he brought a viral segment to a close with the help of many A-list stars.<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old comedian took over for David Letterman in September 2015, though one of his most popular segments \u2013 the \u201cColbert Questionert\u201d \u2013 debuting in January 2021.<\/p>\n

The segment features 15 questions, with Meryl Streep answering them first in that debut sequence, with viral responses from the likes of Prince Harry<\/a>, Keanu Reeves and many more over the last five years.<\/p>\n

Now that his time in late-night is drawing to an end, with Thursday\u2019s secretive finale<\/a>, Colbert finally answered all 15 questions himself, with a slew of talented folks asking them to him, all introduced by John Dickerson.<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert continued winding down his run on CBS\u2019 \u201cLate Show,\u201d with his penultimate show on Wednesday where he brought a viral segment to a close with the help of many A-list stars.<\/p>\n

Now that his time in late-night is drawing to an end, with Thursday\u2019s secretive finale, Colbert finally answered all 15 questions himself, with a slew of talented folks asking them to him, all introduced by John Dickerson.<\/p>\n

Comedy legend Billy Crystal came out to ask the first question: \u201cWhat is the best sandwich?\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert\u2019s answer was two-fold, insisting that in the summer, it\u2019s a, \u201ctomato sandwich on very thin white bread,\u201d though that was not the case the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe rest of the year, wherever you are, hot pastrami on rye with a little bit of mustard, and if the guy behind the counter is willing, little coleslaw. And if it\u2019s not kosher deli, I\u2019ll take a little muenster on there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWeird\u201d Al Yankovic was up next, asking what Colbert\u2019s first concert was. It was Chuck Mangione, during his Children of the Sanchez tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeird\u201d Al Yankovic was up next, asking what Colbert\u2019s first concert was. It was Chuck Mangione, during his Children of the Sanchez tour.<\/p>\n

Josh Brolin \u2013 who Colbert revealed is listed as \u201cWolf Boy\u201d in his phone \u2013 then asked the host what the scariest animal was.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scariest animal to me is a trap door spider. Little sand, nothing wrong. They come out, and they pull you back in. Here\u2019s the part that\u2019s even scarier than that, Josh Brolin. A scientist named a trapdoor spider after me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spider discovered on the coast of California in 2007 was named Aptostichus stephencolberti\u00a0after the comedian in 2008.<\/p>\n

Brolin also gave him a ship in a bottle that he got from ebay. It says \u201cMay you always glide through life\u2019s sometimes tumultuous waters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Josh Brolin \u2013 who Colbert revealed is listed as \u201cWolf Boy\u201d in his phone \u2013 then asked the host what the scariest animal was.<\/p>\n

Martha Stewart was next, asking the simple question: Apples or Oranges?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you can\u2019t put peanut butter on an orange, so I\u2019m gonna risk the wrath of the seraphim and say apple,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n

Mark Hamil was next and asked if he had ever asked someone else for an autograph, and Colbert said he did, asking Steve Martin to sign something for him after a show they did.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most profound answer of the night came when comedian Jim Gaffigan asked, \u201cWhat do you think happens when we die?\u201d<\/p>\n

Martha Stewart was next, asking the simple question: Apples or Oranges?<\/p>\n

Mark Hamil was next and asked if he had ever asked someone else for an autograph, and Colbert said he did, asking Steve Martin to sign something for him after a show they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think of it\u2019s more like a feeling, I think there is some continuance of some kind, but it\u2019s like a dispersion of ones self into some other greater being, and I don\u2019t have any of feelings beyond that,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n

Gaffigan then remarked, \u201cWhat you\u2019re saying is we become Febreze.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert also told Jeff Daniels that his favorite action movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he revealed to Tiffany Haddish that he prefers aisle seats over window seats on planes because he has, \u201cthe bladder of a baby chipmunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

His wife Evie came out to ask his favorite smell, which he revealed was a \u201ckai rose scented lotion\u201d she wears when she\u2019s getting ready to go out, adding, \u201cI know when I smell that you\u2019re in there wearing very little.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most profound answer of the night came when comedian Jim Gaffigan asked, \u201cWhat do you think happens when we die?\u201d<\/p>\n

His \u201cStrangers With Candy\u201d co-star Amy Sedaris asked what his least favorite smell was, and he revealed it was a scent he discovered at a neighbor\u2019s house as a boy: a jar of grease that leaked into a bag of sugar, a scent he couldn\u2019t describe, though he had, \u201cnever smelled anything that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Stiller asked what his earliest memory was, which was a memory of his mother painting in his room when he was possibly three of four years old and he couldn\u2019t speak yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember what I was trying to tell her, and I was trying to tell her about the dream I had the night before,\u201d about an albino alligator at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n

Aubrey Plaza asked simply, \u201cCats or Dogs,\u201d two which Colbert replied, \u201cI have lived with both of them,\u201d before adding after a long pause, \u201cDogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

His \u201cStrangers With Candy\u201d co-star Amy Sedaris asked what his least favorite smell was, and he revealed it was a scent he discovered at a neighbor\u2019s house as a boy: a jar of grease that leaked into a bag of sugar, a scent he couldn\u2019t describe, though he had, \u201cnever smelled anything that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert De Niro asked the now-infamous question \u201cWhat number are you thinking of?\u201d which Colbert revealed the true answer to: three.<\/p>\n

\u201cMeryl Streep and Ethan Hawke guessed correctly. Three. That\u2019s the number I was thinking of,\u201d though De Niro added he though it would be 2.5 million, the number of Epstein Files trump hasn\u2019t released.<\/p>\n

Dickerson asks the last one \u2013 \u201cHow would you describe the rest of your life in five words?\u201d <\/p>\n

Colbert thoughtfully responded, \u201cMy family, my friends, fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colbert\u2019s run on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d ends Thursday night on CBS with an extended episode full of yet-to-be-announced guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert continued winding down his run on CBS\u2019 \u201cLate Show,\u201d with his penultimate show on Wednesday where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,13728,10674,92],"class_list":["post-656184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}