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Ahead of the end of 'The Late Show,' host Stephen Colbert sat down to answer questions from his fellow current and former late-night hosts, including Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Conan O'Brien, James Corden and Trevor Noah on set of his The Hollywood Reporter cover shoot. During the interview, Colbert reflected on his favorite musical guests, most memorable interview moments and much more.

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00:00From Jay Leno, no way! You got a question from Jay Leno?
00:05I tell you, when I got this gig, Jay Leno called me right away.
00:08And Jay goes, yeah, you got the Pope job.
00:12You got the chance he is dead.
00:14You were wrong on that one, Jay.
00:26Hi, I'm Stephen Colbert, and I've been handed a stack of questions.
00:29I've been told are from my fellow hosts.
00:33Can I just roll into these? Here we go.
00:35Alright, from Jay Leno.
00:36As a road comic, I've always enjoyed live audiences.
00:39Have you ever thought about a road version of your best jokes for a live audience?
00:44Still waiting for the best jokes, Jay.
00:46I think that's a great idea, Jay.
00:48Please send me a list of what my best jokes have been.
00:51And let's hit the road together.
00:54You drive.
00:58From James Corden.
00:59How are things at CBS?
01:01Should I come back?
01:02100%, James.
01:04100%.
01:05Hold on, let me see what Corden actually asked.
01:07What have you been doing to mentally and emotionally prepare for your daily life after the show?
01:12Trevor and I can send a Zoom link if you need.
01:14Good question.
01:15I don't know about you guys, but there's no, I don't think there's any prepping for it.
01:18Look, I try not to make eye contact with the people in the building too much.
01:22I've always discouraged it.
01:24But now I'm really being a hard ass about it.
01:26Don't look in the eye because I'm a weeper.
01:29And I like the show a lot, but I love the people I work with.
01:33And that's going to be hard.
01:34And they're so physically attractive.
01:49From Trevor Noah, is there anything you were never able to do because you had a late night show and
01:55do yourself, do you see yourself doing it now?
01:58Exercising.
01:59That's what I would like to do.
02:00I think my wife has waited long enough.
02:02It's time for abs.
02:04Okay, honey?
02:05I want to be swole.
02:06You're not even going to recognize me.
02:07I'm going to be ripped.
02:09You're going to be able to bounce a quarter off my ass and get back two dimes and a nickel.
02:13Alright?
02:14Brace yourself.
02:15It's finally happening.
02:16Okay, from Conan O'Brien, just who the hell do you think you are?
02:21Sometimes I wish I was Conan O'Brien.
02:24Because I've never been able to dunk.
02:26I think I'm Conan O'Brien's friend.
02:28That's what I think.
02:29It's hard to tell from this question, but I think I'm Conan O'Brien's friend.
02:32I think I'm Conan O'Brien's best friend, actually.
02:35Is that possible?
02:37That I'm his best friend?
02:47Jon Stewart, how do you know when the fudge is done?
02:49Okay, this is very important.
02:50If you are making what I consider fudge, not that stuff that's kind of like a thick tar you buy
02:56like down on the shore.
02:57You know, I don't know why fudge is associated with vacations.
02:58My mom could not cook really.
02:59It's awful.
03:00But she could make fudge.
03:02I don't know where she learned to do that.
03:04You know when the fudge is done.
03:05You know when the fudge is done.
03:05You have a candy thermometer.
03:06You have your spoon back and forth through the fudge.
03:09I would say, how much butter do you put it?
03:10She was like about the size of a medium cake.
03:12It's a firm ball.
03:13It's a soft ball.
03:13And obviously, what's the difference between a soft ball and a firm ball?
03:19And that's fudge.
03:21That's fudge.
03:22From Jimmy Kimmel,
03:24Is it true that hospitals are sometimes forced to send patients who are too obese for their MRI CT machines
03:31to be scanned at the zoo?
03:33Okay, sometime, once.
03:35It happened once.
03:36But then after that I got the shot.
03:39And I don't have to go to the zoo for my CT scan anymore.
03:49From Jimmy Fallon,
03:51You've had the best seats in the house for over 10 years.
03:54What's the one musical performance on your show that you and the crew still talk about?
03:58I mean, we just recently had Hosier and Lake Street Dive do Joe Cocker's Woodstock version of With Little Help
04:06From My Friends.
04:07That's pretty fantastic.
04:09God, Moses Sumney was amazing.
04:11Anderson Paak wasn't happening yet.
04:13We had him on.
04:14I think we might have been the first show he was on.
04:15He was incredible.
04:17Roger Waters did a medley from The Wall back when it was still cool to have Roger Waters on.
04:22And it was cool, man.
04:25Joe Walsh.
04:26Just like, hey man, I want to come on.
04:28Like Joe Fantastic Walsh.
04:29Joe Walsh doing Rocky Mountain Way burned this theater to the ground.
04:33The damn Doobie Brothers.
04:36Absolutely.
04:37Just structural damage to this building.
04:39From Seth Meyers.
04:41What's an answer a guest gave that will stay with you the longest?
04:45Oh, there have been so many.
04:47We did a thing called the Colbert Questionnaire.
04:49And that came about because I interviewed Keanu Reeves one night.
04:52And out of nowhere, I don't know why, I just asked him, what do you think happens when we die?
04:58And he paused in that way only Keanu can and he said something beautiful actually.
05:04He said, I know that the ones who love us will miss us.
05:18Deceptively simple because it blew up.
05:21I mean, it was one of the most watched clips we've ever had on YouTube.
05:25And we went, oh wait, let's ask that question of everybody.
05:28And then we built the Colbert Questionnaire around it.
05:30So that would be one.
05:31Another one is I interviewed Ambassador Andrew Young in 1969.
05:36My father had just begun running a hospital in South Carolina,
05:40the Medical University of South Carolina.
05:42And there was a strike.
05:44The hospital workers went on a strike.
05:46And there was this young guy who was working with Ralph Abernathy
05:50who had come down, this was a year after Dr. King had been killed.
05:53And Ralph Abernathy came to Charleston with Coretta Scott King
05:56and they had this young guy who was working with him named Andrew Young.
06:00And the president of the university was from South Africa
06:03and just would not talk to any of the black strikers.
06:06And my father was down, he had worked with, I think it was 1199,
06:09the hospital workers union up here at Bellevue.
06:12And my father said, I can talk to the unions.
06:15And so Andrew Young and my father settled that strike.
06:20And when the strike came in 2007 and 2008, I was, I didn't know what to do.
06:24It was my first experience with that. It was a bad situation.
06:27And my brother Ed said, well, why don't you call Andrew Young?
06:29So I had Andrew Young on and he said to me things about my father I didn't know
06:35because he died when I was 10.
06:37And he said, your father understood to always keep talking
06:40because if you're talking, there's hope.
06:43I'll never forget that.
06:45And then the last night of the Colbert Report,
06:48Andrew Young was invited to be, we had 70 guests.
06:51He was one of the guests.
06:51And he walked in with his cane and his booming voice
06:54and he walked in and he says, I am here representing Stephen's father.
06:59Isn't that lovely?
07:00And I said, somebody should.
07:02At next time pessoal.
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