Stephen Colbert
speaker
1,477 appearances
50 recordings
16 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Stephen Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
He was always very professional.
And I remember looking at him backstage at Second City and going, why is he so good?
And I came up with this conclusion and I wrote it down on a piece of paper with a calligraphic pen.
And I taped it on the back of my little locker area to remind myself.
And it just said work because what I saw at Steve was that he worked really hard.
Yeah.
And he never phoned it in.
And I'm curious what his process is like when he does drama.
or what people would perceive as drama, versus comedy, or what people would perceive as comedy.
And the reason why I say perceive is, is it all the same to him, but with a different character intention, or with a different energy intention?
Or is he really just approaching it in a totally different way?
He's saying, well, that's sketch, or that's something incredibly broad, like Anchorman, or Dinner for Schmucks, or now I'm doing Foxcatcher.
Yeah.
Does he do it in a different way?
Because I admire him so much in both directions.
Same.
And, and, and as far as I know, he's never talked about his process.
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