Stephen Colbert

He's subbing in for his brother, yeah.

Yeah.

I met Carell.

I met Carell at Northwest back in, in 1988.

We were in Carby together.

And the Mug Rootbeard Dana Carvey Show, tonight on ABC.

The joy of failure.

Yes.

Was something that I said early on at Second City that I realized, oh, I think I should do this for the rest of my life, meaning comedy.

Because I was kind of fighting whether I was going to do drama or comedy because I was doing straight theater in Chicago at the same time.

But we'd laugh so hard when we or someone else on stage would fail, but the other person on stage who was failing would also laugh.

And I went, if it can be this joyful...

in failure, and there's also another joy in success, then I'd be dumb not to pursue this for the rest of my life.

It's almost like, because there's so much empathy for what's happened to the person who's

I know you asked to for me to think of like what I would want to ask.

The amazing thing about Steve is his ability to do anything is I know a lot of talented people, but I don't know many people who can do almost anything.

And first of all, I mean, I remember one of my early impressions of Steve is, wow, he can make anything funny.

Yeah, he can make any moment very full, not funny, but funny, but also very full, very full of presence and energy and what we would call tensiveness, like like a scenic tension.

And I see that same ability.

Like I marveled that ability and also how he would never fuck around.