Stephen Colbert
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1,477 appearances
50 recordings
16 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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Sure. Iceberg.
Yes. When I was a kid, my, you know, again, 11 kids and also Catholic, so, you know, no meat on Fridays. We had so many Mrs. Paul's or like Gorton's fish sticks. I think it was Mrs. Paul's fish sticks growing up. And my mother, her idea of making you fancy. And I'm sure she saw this too.
the serving suggestion on like on the back of the package with some partnership with Campbell because it would take a can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup and you would just heat up the condensed soup and ladle that over the fish sticks as the sauce.
No, no. No, that's if you're making soup, not if you're making a delicious remoulade.
Oh, exactly. Exactly. I'm a creature of pure sodium by the time I was 10.
But, you know, that also, this is the thing that even I, as a child who just would eat anything you put in front of me, spaghetti with ketchup.
Oh, my God. We got that all the time.
I'm like, I don't understand what's happening. But I would, of course, have to eat it.
And it would be steamed with vinegar.
Seasonally.
I can't speak to your experience because that's your experience, but certainly for the business that I'm in, this is one of the more normative jobs you can have because you know where you're going and you know when you're coming home. And the hours may be long, but at least you can plan your life.
I'm not in Sarajevo shooting Game of Thrones.
Unless they want to cast me. And then to hell with all of this TV stuff. I'm a star.
Oh, that's interesting.
I don't think because our – or I'll just speak for me. I don't think because of who my father was, was I expected to be a model child. I think the same – I mean, first of all, I think we were all 11 children in the family. I think we were all held to the same standard. I think I had a slightly different relationship with my dad than my other brothers and sisters did because I was the last. They –
They used to say, I can't believe dad took you to the carnival. Like, dad hates carnivals. Or I can't believe dad went to the beach with you or something like that. But my father had a sense that, you know, this is his last bite at the apple. And to do those fatherly things with me. Because my father died when I was young. It's not so much I was held to a standard that I had to match him.
It's that when your parent dies when you're young, they become Olympian. Or there's something much larger than life, which of course is how a child sees their parent. But you never get to move beyond that. So as you get older, they also get larger.
So as your view of the world or what you believe is asked of you to be an adult, at least for me, my father inflated ahead of me and became even grander in a way. If there was any standard placed on me, it was placed on me by myself. My mother was not asking me to be a certain person because of who my father was. I did it to myself because of the person I perceived my father to be.
And I actually don't think I'm very far off. I think he was an extraordinary man. But I think that's self-imposed on my part.
And for me, because I wanted to know my father, even though I was robbed that ability to move beyond the childhood view of him, because I wanted to know him, I grabbed onto the little things that I did know about him. For instance, my father's idea of fun was to read philosophy. He really, would enjoy sitting down with Jacques Maritain or Léon Blois or other French Christian humanists.
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