Evie McGee Colbert
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73 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Evie McGee Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Since I asked about appendicitis and you did two shows, like, did you know what was wrong? Did you realize something really terrible was happening?
Did you feel at some point that you were actually close to death? And medically, how close were you? Hmm.
Evie, were you ever worried that he was going to die?
You grew up very close to each other, maybe a block away, I think you said.
But you didn't know each other until you met, like after you'd moved away from home, after each of you had moved away from home. And you met at a music festival, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston in 1990. Yes. And Evie, you lived next door to a theater, or I guess some of the performances were at the music festival. And I guess, Stephen, you lived a block away.
And both places became homes where the musicians hung out. Evie, your mother used to cook for the musicians a lot. That's right. But I'm wondering if being so close to a theater and meeting people who performed in the theater made you each feel like acting, show business was an attainable idea. Sure.
Right. Then you're going to be home. I mean, you're not traveling to different locations.
The thing is sometimes when you're married to somebody who's famous and is in the public eye and very recognizable, people want to meet the famous person and look right past the spouse.
It's like the spouse doesn't really exist.
That's a real thing. And that's hard to deal with. Yeah.
Well, that's the thing, Evie. Like now you have a public persona.
We need to take another short break here, so let me reintroduce you. If you're just joining us, my guests are Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert. They co-wrote a new cookbook called Does This Taste Funny? Recipes our family loves. We'll be right back. This is Fresh Air. You're both from prominent families. Steve and your father died when you were 10.
But before that, he'd been a director of a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. And he worked at the National Institutes of Health. And then the family moved to South Carolina. And he became the first vice president for academic affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina. That was in 1969. Yeah. And Evie, your father was a prominent civil litigator.
He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives for three terms. He was a Democrat. Because your fathers were prominent, were you expected to be model children? Huh.
How do you think TV has changed since you started working on The Daily Show? What year was that?
And TV is a completely different – if you count streaming, it's a completely different place than it was. And networks are losing viewers. Streamers are losing viewers. YouTube is gaining viewers. It's a whole different world. And how has that affected you in your career?
You're kidding me, right?
Do I know you? I don't know.
If you're just joining us, my guests are Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert. They wrote a new book together called Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves. We'll be right back. This is Fresh Air. Stephen, I've known about your deep faith and Catholicism since The Daily Show when you were kind of like the religion correspondent and you had a regular feature called This Week in God.
This is the God machine. Yes. And, you know, you still talk about religion on The Late Show. And you satirize religion. You satirize Catholicism. You satirize the Pope. So I was really surprised when the Pope invited you to the Vatican as part of a larger event. And I don't remember what the event was, but Jim Gaffigan was there. I think David Sedaris was there.
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