Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee-Colbert

Summary

Podcast Summary: Be My Guest with Ina Garten

Episode: Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee-Colbert

Release Date: October 13, 2024
Host: Ina Garten
Guests: Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee-Colbert
Setting: Ina’s East Hampton home
Duration: ~37 minutes (content only)

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Episode Overview

Ina Garten welcomes Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee-Colbert to her East Hampton home for a lively, heartwarming conversation about marriage, family traditions, live TV, and food. The trio prepares and shares recipes—from Ina’s legendary sour cream coffee cake to Colbert family favorites and cocktails—while reflecting on meaningful family anecdotes, the ups and downs of creative collaboration, and memorable moments from Stephen's career. The episode radiates warmth, humor, and genuine affection.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Arrival, Welcomes, and Coffee Cake

[01:28–09:10]

• Ina prepares her signature sour cream coffee cake for her guests, describing her recipe and technique in detail.
• Warm and playful banter as Stephen and Evie arrive—expressing nervous excitement about cooking with Ina.
• The coffee cake becomes an icebreaker, with Stephen quipping about his own version (“Cooking for Stephen”) amid much laughter.

Quote:
"I watch Ina every night before the show. I feel like I'm going into a dream that I have every day."
—Stephen Colbert [07:07]

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2. How Ina, Stephen & Evie First Connected

[07:48–08:48]

• The “Twitter meet-cute”: Stephen tweeted about Ina’s cookbook, jokingly demanding a “Cooking for Stephen,” which led Ina to send him a customized version.
• Lighthearted fun over the personalized book.

Quote:
"It's not just Cooking for Stephen here, but it's Cooking for Stephen. Literally every page, they marked out Cooking for Jeffrey and made Cooking for Stephen."
—Stephen Colbert [08:35]

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3. Pandemic Production Stories & Family Dynamics

[09:12–11:02]

• Evie shares her experience being a COVID-era producer/“crew member” on The Late Show, supporting Stephen from their basement with no formal training.
• Stephen’s anxiety over having family present during tapings—a new dynamic that evolved during lockdown.
• Anecdotes about technical mishaps (trouble hearing Tom Hanks in Greece).

Quote:
"I was really nervous to have her in the room the whole time because... I don't even particularly like family to be at the show when I'm doing the show."
—Stephen Colbert [09:39]

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4. Memorable “Late Show” Moments & Interview Challenges

[11:11–12:05]

• Stephen recalls difficult interviews—one guest leaving mid-interview, and Robert De Niro’s famously terse answers, leading to a minute of silence on air.
• The trio commiserates over “bad guests” and the art of keeping a show moving.

Quote:
"Bob, one of my favorite interviews I've ever done was with De Niro because... we took one solid minute and we didn't talk at all on television."
—Stephen Colbert [11:49]

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5. Childhood Memories and Meeting Stories

[12:19–17:02, 21:46–23:38]

• Stephen reveals he’s the youngest of 11 children—leading to tales of growing up in a bustling, “free range” family.
• The story of Stephen and Evie meeting: Stephen returned home to Charleston, meets Evie at a theater while reevaluating a relationship, and recalls an instant sense of destiny.
• Flirtations over sharkskin suits and beards.
• Ina shares how her husband Jeffrey instantly knew he wanted to marry her.
• Nostalgia and laughter over elementary family meals (e.g., “free-range” DIY dinners, fish sticks with condensed tomato soup).

Quote:
"I am the youngest of 11 children. Wow. They finally got it right."
—Stephen Colbert [12:26]

Quote:
"And I literally thought, this her? You're gonna marry her."
—Stephen Colbert [16:10]

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6. Behind the Cookbook: “Does This Taste Funny?”

[19:04–27:01]

• Inspiration and process for their cookbook, blending Evie’s Southern family recipes and Stephen's comedic flair.
• Famous Colbert sibling “fudge saga”: Each sibling remembers their late mother’s fudge recipe differently, so the book features multiple interpretations.
• Discussion on the copy-editing process (and its absurdities), like specifying “peeled and mashed bananas.”
• The cookbook is structured as a dialogue between Stephen and Evie, giving it a conversational, double-voiced charm.
• The project grew from their COVID experience of collaborating at home.

Quotes:

• "I wish I could make an audience laugh the way I can make Evie laugh..." —Stephen Colbert [25:31]
• "The book's really about, like, what it's like to hang out with us in our life and our kitchen and... at our parties." —Stephen Colbert [23:38]

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7. Recipe Demos & Family Food Traditions

A. Evie’s Green Goddess Dip

[29:30–34:34]

• Evie demonstrates her take on green goddess dip, with playful interruptions from Stephen.
• Anecdote: The green goddess dip came from Evie’s sister-in-law, and was a road-trip tradition.
• Stephen jokes about his aversion to radishes (using them as trashcan basketballs).
• Ina and Stephen praise Evie’s cooking skills.

Notable Recipe Notes:

• Half a cup each of mayonnaise and sour cream
• Chives, tarragon, parsley, green onion tops, a touch of anchovy paste, lemon juice
• Traditionally served with potato chips

Quote:
"If you tell someone there's anchovy paste, they might eat it."
—Evie McGee Colbert [31:27]

B. Stephen’s “Capri Sunset” Cocktail

[34:34–36:43]

• Step-by-step instructions: Orange juice and vodka (“one Mississippi, two…”), soda water, float of Campari on top.
• Inspired by drinks with Dick Cavett, who learned the OJ/Campari combo from Marlon Brando.
• Playful back-and-forth about serving practices, ice, and not using fingers.

Quote:
"I love the sweetness and the bitterness of Campari."
—Stephen Colbert [36:34]

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8. Celebrity Anecdotes & Live Show Surprises

[17:29–18:15]

• Wildest live-TV encounters: Jane Fonda sitting in Stephen’s lap, Helen Mirren and Sally Field kissing him on-air, and Jeff Daniels following suit.
• Discussion on how Stephen’s on-camera persona differs from his home self—Evie vetoed the “Colbert Report” character at home but welcomes his goofy side.

Quote:
"Jane Fonda crawled in my lap and stuck her tongue in my ear."
—Stephen Colbert [17:37]
"Helen Mirren kissed me on the lips. She walked on and give me the second best kiss I've ever had."
—Stephen Colbert [17:53]

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9. On Family, Children, and Jennifer Garner

[32:51–34:02]

• The Colberts reveal Jennifer Garner was their daughter’s babysitter before becoming famous.
• Previous skepticism about Garner’s acting dreams, then star-struck surprise at her success.

Quote:
"I hope you get a commercial or two gobbled up. You'll have to wait tables for a long time."
—Evie McGee Colbert [33:14]

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Notable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Stephen Colbert on pandemic home production:
  "I was really nervous to have her in the room the whole time..." [09:39]
• On cookbook collaboration:
  "The book's really about, like, what it's like to hang out with us in our life and our kitchen..." [23:38]
• On food memories:
  "Mayonnaise and mustard mixed together with a dash of paprika on a saltine cracker. That's your meal." — Stephen [22:58]
• On celebrity kisses:
  "Helen Mirren kissed me on the lips. She walked on and give me the second best kiss I've ever had." — Stephen [17:53]
• On laughter and marriage:
  "I wish I could make an audience laugh the way I can make Evie laugh." — Stephen [25:31]

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Recipe Highlights

• Sour Cream Coffee Cake (Ina Garten's Classic): Detailed step-by-step at [01:28–06:24].
• Green Goddess Dip (Evie’s Family): Demonstration and commentary at [29:35–34:34].
• Capri Sunset Cocktail (Stephen Colbert’s Creation): Step-by-step at [34:34–36:43].

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Tone & Atmosphere

• Playful, self-deprecating humor from Stephen.
• Supportive and slightly teasing rapport between Evie and Stephen—a portrait of a long, loving marriage.
• Ina’s warm and inquisitive style, putting guests at ease while inviting them to share meaningful stories and recipes.

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Concluding Moments

[36:43–37:34]

• The trio toasts with Capri Sunset cocktails.
• Stephen and Evie joke about future visits in pajamas, and pandemic comfort attire is fondly recalled.
• Episode closes with mutual appreciation and joy.

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Summary

This episode is a delightful medley of laughter, vulnerability, and shared culinary joy. Ina, Stephen, and Evie’s affectionate chemistry shines, whether they’re recounting late-night TV antics, the messy art of family cooking, or the idiosyncrasies of writing a cookbook together. From classic Southern recipes to the “Colbert sibling fudge saga,” each story is a warm invitation—making this episode both nourishing and thoroughly entertaining.

Transcript

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[Ina Garten]

I'm Ina Garten. I love to invite interesting people to my house for good food, great conversation and lots of fun. Writer, comedian, host Stephen Colbert and his wife, producer Evie Colbert McGee are coming to the barn. There's coffee, cake and confessions.

[Stephen Colbert]

We met on Twitter. As long as it wasn't Tinder.

[Ina Garten]

It's like Tinder. Exactly. Cookbooks. This is cooking for Jeffrey.

[Stephen Colbert]

There you go.

[Ina Garten]

As it should be. And that's cooking for Stephen. We're talking love, life and live tv.

[Stephen Colbert]

Helen Mirren kissed me on the lips.

[Ina Garten]

And Evie's making an impressive green goddess dip.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I'm nervous. I'm nervous.

[Ina Garten]

And Stephen's sharing a Colbert Campari cocktail that's delicious. To toast our day. I'm so glad you're here.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, we're thrilled.

[Ina Garten]

I'm glad you're here too.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm a quiver.

[Ina Garten]

I love Stephen Colbert. I've been on his show several times and it's always so much fun. And he's coming today with his wife, Evie McGee. Colbert and I asked them what they'd like when they arrive. And they said sour cream coffee cake. So that's what I'm making. So I've got the batter and I'm just gonna pour half the batter into this cake pan. It's always done classically in a tube pan. And while I do this, let me tell you how I made the batter. It's a really simple batter. First, I put 12 tablespoons of room temperature unsalted butter and one and a half cups of granulated sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer. I creamed them together for about five minutes until they were light and fluffy. Next, I added three eggs, one at a time, one and a half teaspoons of pure vanilla extract, one and a quarter cups of sour cream, and mixed them in. Then for the dry mix, I put two and a half cups of cake flour in a sieve, along with two teaspoons of baking powder, half a teaspoon of baking soda, half a teaspoon of kosher salt and sifted them together. Then with the mixer on low, I added the flour mixture to the batter and mixed it just until combined. This batter really is so easy to make, and it's just rich and delicious. Okay, now to make it even better, I've made a streusel, which is gonna go in the middle and on the top and it's gonna flavor the whole thing. So let me tell you how I made this Drusel. It's really easy. I combined quarter of a cup of light brown sugar, half a cup of all purpose flour, one and a half teaspoons of ground cinnamon, quarter of a teaspoon of kosher salt, and 3 tablespoons of cold unsalted butter. Then I pinch them together with my fingers until they form a crumble. And finally, I added three quarters of a cup of chopped walnuts and stir them in. Okay, that's about half the streusel. Next, more batter. The rest of the battery just right on top. This is a great cake. It really lasts for a long time because it's so moist. Well, it doesn't last around my house very long, but it stays moist for a long time. Okay, and then the rest of the streusel right on top, all the cinnamon and walnuts, just pinch it so it makes big clumps. Butter. Cause of course, butter makes everything better. Right? That's it. Okay, into the oven 350 degrees for 50 to 60 minutes, just until the cake tester comes out clean. And then it's going to cool for 30 minutes. It's going to be really good. So while that happens, let me tell you what I know about my fabulous guests so far. The amazing couple Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee. Colbert met in their hometown, Charleston, South Carolina, and have been happily married for 30 years. Stephen's wildly successful talk show, the Late show, has been on five nights a week since 2015. His comedic climb is impressive. From stand up at the renowned Second City in Chicago and the Daily show with Jon Stewart to hosting his new satire show, the Colbert Report. It's no Wonder he's won 11 Emmys, five Peabodys, and two Grammy Awards. Evie is a producer and an amazing cook. Evie and Steven are actually going to cook for me, making recipes from their new cookbook, does this Taste Funny? I love that title. Which is a celebration of food and fun from their home in Charleston that they share with their three children. I can't wait to talk to them. They've done so much both individually and together. Okay, cake's cooled, and I'm going to make a little drizzle for it, like a glaze. So I've got a half a cup of confectioner sugar and 2 tablespoons of maple syrup. Good. Maple syrup. Okay. I'm just gonna whisk this until it's smooth.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm nervous.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

You're nervous?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, you do this all the time. I'm really nervous.

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't talk to Ina Garten all the time in Eina Garten's own house. We're gonna cook in front of her.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

From our own cookbook, hon. That's really intimidating.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah, that's why I said I'm nervous.

[Ina Garten]

So it's just the right consistency now. Okay, ready to do the cake? I just think it looks really pretty, and it's got great flavor because of the maple. You don't want it perfect. You want it just kind of messy all on the top. Okay, almost done. I don't know. They're both cooks. I hope this is up to snuff.

[Stephen Colbert]

All right, this is a go.

[Ina Garten]

Okay, I've got napkins, I've got plates, coffee cake, and the Colbert's a day. Doesn't get any better than that.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

God, it's so beautiful. I have hedge envy.

[Stephen Colbert]

You have what?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Hedge envy.

[Stephen Colbert]

Hedge envy. Oh, I didn't realize that was a clinical. Look at the beautiful diagnosis.

[Ina Garten]

I'm so excited. Aren't you excited?

[Stephen Colbert]

Of course I'm excited. I watch Ina every night before the show. I feel like I'm going into a dream that I have every day. This is all sort of unreal. Awesome.

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[Stephen Colbert]

Ding dong.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Hello.

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They're here.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Hello.

[Ina Garten]

Oh, my God. I'm so happy to see both of you. So good to see you.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

So nice to meet you.

[Ina Garten]

I'm so happy to see you.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Thank you so much for having me.

[Ina Garten]

I learned so much about you.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's so nice of you. Thank you.

[Ina Garten]

Come on in. So I understand you threatened not to come if I didn't make coffee cake, so I make coffee cake.

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[Ina Garten]

Can I tell you.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, boy, that looks delicious.

[Stephen Colbert]

Not as any coffee cake. The sour cream coffee.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Thank you, honey.

[Stephen Colbert]

So gorgeous.

[Ina Garten]

Do you remember how we met, Stephen?

[Stephen Colbert]

Did I do something bad?

[Ina Garten]

It was on Twitter. I kept getting all these.

[Stephen Colbert]

You read on Twitter? As long as it wasn't TikTok.

[Ina Garten]

It's like Tinder. Exactly.

[Stephen Colbert]

What did I do?

[Ina Garten]

So apparently, when my book Cooking for Jeffrey came out, you were tweeting, where's my book Cooking for Stephen?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Which I just adored.

[Ina Garten]

I absolutely adored it. And so we sent you a book, which I have.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, remember that?

[Ina Garten]

I just happened to have a copy. This is Cooking for Jeffrey.

[Stephen Colbert]

There you go.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

As it should be.

[Ina Garten]

And that's Cooking for Stephen.

[Stephen Colbert]

I think it's. I'm not going to say it's an improvement, but I don't have a rip. If your man's got a rip in him, you got to get a new one. That is fantastic.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, it goes right to the side.

[Stephen Colbert]

And it's incredibly detailed. It's not just Cooking for Stephen here, but it's Cooking for Stephen. Literally every page, they marked out Cooking for Jeffrey and made Cooking for Stephen. Every time his name appears, they scratch out Jeffrey and put in Stephen.

[Ina Garten]

I love the pictures.

[Stephen Colbert]

Every phone photo is me.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, my gosh. That is hysterical. Look at that.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm focused on the coffee cake. May I?

[Ina Garten]

Of course.

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[Evie McGee Colbert]

He says.

[Stephen Colbert]

Am I supposed to wait till everyone before I eat?

[Ina Garten]

All right. No, you don't have to wait. Oh, and there's coffee to go with coffee cake.

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Delicious.

[Ina Garten]

Okay, coffee for everybody.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, thank you.

[Ina Garten]

And then I have so much to talk to both of you about.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, we can't wait. This is so cool.

[Ina Garten]

Help yourself to milk and sugar and whatever. Can I hit you?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Yes, please.

[Ina Garten]

Thank you. So when you're a producer on the Colbert show, right?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, not really. I was a producer during COVID Oh, yes.

[Ina Garten]

Everybody knows you in the dark basement being the guest.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Yes. And let me tell you, it was trial by fire. I didn't know what I was doing, but there was no one allowed in the house.

[Ina Garten]

I think Everybody loved you on it. It was fun. I think you knew exactly what you were doing.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It was really fun. It was fun.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was really nervous to have her in the room the whole time because I don't even particularly like family to be at the show. When I'm doing the show, you don't.

[Ina Garten]

Want to worry about whether they think it's funny.

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[Ina Garten]

Everybody else, you know, they'll think it's funny. They don't think it's funny. It's fine.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's fine.

[Ina Garten]

But Evie has to think it's funny. You care.

[Stephen Colbert]

And also, I was afraid that I would be mean to her as a crew member.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

There were times.

[Stephen Colbert]

What was I mean?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

We weren't mean.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was about to say I thought I passed with flying colors.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, there were things I didn't know how to control. So I can remember once. You're talking to Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is in Greece. And Stephen, we're in our house in South Carolina, and he looks at me and he says, I can't hear Tom. And I'm like, I don't know what to do about that, honey.

[Ina Garten]

Why is it your fault?

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Because I don't want to do it.

[Stephen Colbert]

Honey, check the marriage vows. You're supposed to be able to have me hearing Tom on an island in Greece.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

The trick is you turn everything off. You turn it all back on. Somehow, magically, it works.

[Ina Garten]

Isn't it funny? We're of the generation where if something doesn't work, you call the repair person. But the generation of screens and all that, you find out. You just keep fiddling around until it reboot, pull out the plug, put it back in. Right. And it's fine.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

I do miss the days when you just slapped things on the side.

[Ina Garten]

Just smack it on the side.

[Stephen Colbert]

Because vacuum tubes. You just slap it on the side. You're like, no, no, I get it, boss. And then it would. It would start working again, and then.

[Ina Garten]

You're a genius. Right? Yeah. I love being on a show. We have such a good time. I mean, does anybody not have a good time with you?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, some people. He gives a hard time.

[Stephen Colbert]

Some people. Those people don't come back as long as they don't take off the mic in the middle of the interview.

[Ina Garten]

Have you ever had that happen?

[Stephen Colbert]

Once.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Really?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Ina Garten]

Who did that?

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't want to say. I don't want to say one person.

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[Evie McGee Colbert]

I'll tell you later.

[Stephen Colbert]

I had one person just take off his mic like that, put it down, get up and walk off Yeah.

[Ina Garten]

I did a late night show with someone who will remain nameless, who gave one word answers. That's the worst guest. Oh, yep.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, that's hard.

[Ina Garten]

Nope.

[Stephen Colbert]

You interviewed Robert De Niro.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

He doesn't even give one word.

[Ina Garten]

Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Bob, one of my favorite interviews I've ever done was with De Niro because I know he's a wonderful actor and he's not hostile. He just. It's not the sort of thing he does.

[Ina Garten]

Yeah, he just doesn't. He doesn't play Robert De Niro.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah. And so he came on the show and I asked him a question. He was giving one or two word answers and I went, you know what, let's just not talk. So we took one solid minute and we didn't talk at all on television.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's right.

[Stephen Colbert]

My favorite interview I've ever done. A minute of silence on television is an eternity.

[Ina Garten]

I know.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Ina Garten]

Let's go sit down. There's so many things I want to talk to both of you about it.

[Stephen Colbert]

Can I have another cup?

[Ina Garten]

You can have another cup.

[Stephen Colbert]

I mean, could I have another cut? Oh, another cut. I want another piece.

[Ina Garten]

I guess he likes it.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

He does like it.

[Ina Garten]

Phew.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

You know, when you're one of 11 children, you just have to eat quickly.

[Ina Garten]

Because somebody else will eat.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Exactly. That's exactly right.

[Ina Garten]

Are you one of 11 children? That's incredible.

[Stephen Colbert]

I am the youngest of 11 children. Wow. They finally got it right.

[Ina Garten]

Coming up, fashion faux pas, by the way.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

He had on a shark skin suit that he bought in Chicago for maybe 15 cents at a thrift store.

[Ina Garten]

Recipe rage. That's when I took the book and threw it against the. And a delicious dip with drinks. Does look like a sunset.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's my summertime, the best time.

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[Ina Garten]

Will you tell me about how you both met?

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh boy. Well, I was dating someone at the time when I met Evie.

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Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

And this person, lovely girl, she'd given me the ultimatum, you know, we're gonna get Fisher cut bait, we're gonna get married. And I was like, I'm not sure. I'll tell you what, I'm gonna go home to South Carolina. Cause I always think more clearly back home, you know, floating in a creek. And my mom picks me up from the airport and I said, I told her what was going on with my girlfriend at the time. She goes, well, do you want to marry her? And I said, I don't know. And she says, I don't know Isn't good enough.

[Ina Garten]

Smart mother.

[Stephen Colbert]

And that night she goes, do you want to come to the theater with me? And I walk into the lobby with my mom, and standing against the wall under a sconce in a black linen dress that I highly recommend was this one over there. And I thought. And I literally thought, this her? You're gonna marry her.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Wow. By the way, he had on a shark skin suit that he bought in Chicago for maybe 15 cents at a.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thrift store, $10 at AmVets on.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

But I'd never seen a shark skin suit. And I thought it was. I was like, I don't think he's wearing blue blazers and khaki pants. This is a different kind of look.

[Stephen Colbert]

I also had a beard.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

You did. You look like an artist.

[Stephen Colbert]

And so she asked for my number.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

And I wrote the first postcard.

[Stephen Colbert]

And when that postcard arrived was the only day my girlfriend visited my apartment. And when I went to take my mail out, there was a postcard from my wife. And my girlfriend at the time said, who's that? And I really want to get in a time machine and go back and go, it's my wife.

[Mint Mobile Announcer]

Sweet.

[Ina Garten]

It's just amazing to me that a man can look at a woman and I know several circumstances like this, including Jeffrey, and thinks she's the one without any.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's what Jeffrey said.

[Ina Garten]

He was at Dartmouth. I was walking down the street, and he was looking out the window of the library, and he said to the guy next to him, who was his roommate, he said, who's that girl? And I happened to have known his roommate. It was so crazy. I played tennis with his roommate.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Wow.

[Ina Garten]

And he said, well, that's Heine Rosenberg. And he said, I have to go out with her. Isn't that crazy?

[Stephen Colbert]

How long did you guys date?

[Ina Garten]

Well, I was 17. 16.

[Stephen Colbert]

And you got married at 20?

[Ina Garten]

Yeah. You shoot a show in front of a live audience. What's the wildest thing that's happened to you live?

[Stephen Colbert]

Jane Fonda crawled in my lap and stuck her tongue in my ear.

[LHH Announcer]

No.

[Stephen Colbert]

You can find.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

She did.

[LHH Announcer]

She did.

[Liberty Mutual Announcer]

She did.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Totally true.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes.

[Ina Garten]

It's so funny.

[Stephen Colbert]

There's still a little Barbarella in there.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That was a long time ago.

[Stephen Colbert]

It was a long time ago.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

20 years ago or something.

[Stephen Colbert]

Jane was 70. Helen Mirren kissed me on the lips. She walked on and give me the second best kiss I've ever had. And the next night, Sally Field came on and did the same thing in the same spot because she'd seen it. And then the Next night, Jeff Daniels came on and Keith did so great.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I forgot about Jeff Daniels.

[Liberty Mutual Announcer]

Jeff Daniels.

[Stephen Colbert]

It was three nights in a row.

[Ina Garten]

That's hilarious. So I read a New York Times article that said Stephen is two different people, and one of them thinks the other one's an idiot. Oh, that's really funny. Which I just adore.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's really funny.

[Ina Garten]

Which one is he at home?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, it's a mix. I think you're a mix. I think sometimes the idiot's a lot of fun.

[Ina Garten]

Exactly.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I used to say when he was doing the Colbert Pour, which was a character, and he would play a very know it all character, I would say, that guy is not invited in my house.

[Stephen Colbert]

I did not marry him.

[Ina Garten]

Right.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

He's got too big an ego. Leave him outside. But the idiot's kind of cute and charming, so he's invited inside.

[Stephen Colbert]

Unless you're in a really bad mood.

[LHH Announcer]

Oh, well.

[Stephen Colbert]

Because there are times when you're in a really bad mood. And I'll do my best to cheer her up. She's like, mm, mm, not right now. Not right now. I just don't wanna be cheerful. Don't worry. I would never do anything to make your mood lighter. I promise you, I will not try to improve how you feel. That is so selfish of me.

[Ina Garten]

Can I just say, I love your cookbook? It is so filled with joy. So how'd you start out with the book? Did you start out with old family recipes? We did.

[Stephen Colbert]

On Evie's side of the family, there are a lot of fantastic recipes, and a lot of them are in the book.

[Ina Garten]

What's your favorite recipe in the book?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Do you know Hoppin John? Hoppin John is Charleston's sort of version of beans and rice. And the tradition is on New Year's Day, you have collard greens and Hopin John, and you have good luck. Oh, I think it's because it's good hangover food.

[Stephen Colbert]

I mean, the recipe I've made the most is probably a crispy, a spicy honey lemon chicken, which my daughter and I make all the time. And then we forget what the recipe is, and then we call the other one and we go, wait, when do I put the garlic in? I don't remember. Or she'll say, like, when do I put the honey in? Before or after I put it in the oven? I'm like, you don't put it in the oven. What are you talking about? It all happens in the skillet. So over the years, we've diverged how we make the recipe, but we still take Photos every time we make it and send it to the other one, say, turned out great.

[Ina Garten]

It's so cute. And isn't there a recipe in the book that has, like, many different versions?

[Mint Mobile Announcer]

Yes.

[Ina Garten]

Like a fan. What was it?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It was the Colbert family fudge.

[Ina Garten]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

So on my side of the family, my mom had 11 children, so she did not cook. She distributed food. Basically, we just tilted our head back, and she would walk around with cereal like a mama burden and then come after it with milk. And so the only thing my mom made, really, well, she made it to school every day was she made fudge, but she didn't ever write it down. And so all of us. And she's no longer with us. And so all of us in the family have our own memory of what it should be. So the recipe appears five times in the book. It's called the Colbert sibling Fudge Saga. And, you know, it's an argument between all of us about how to do it.

[Ina Garten]

So who cooks in your family?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, I think I feed people. And you cook beautiful things. How about that? Would you say that's fair?

[Stephen Colbert]

I think you feed people beautiful things, and I enjoy cooking. I think that's the difference.

[Ina Garten]

Well, why do I think you make the cocktails and you cook everything else?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, I.

[Stephen Colbert]

That is true. I do make all the cocktails.

[Wix Announcer]

I mean, we hadn't.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Because Stephen works at night. Usually he wasn't home for dinner. So it was me feeding the children. And usually it was a rotation of. Actually, we texted our daughter. It was very funny. We texted our children before we got here to say, what did we cook the most? And she's like, oh, rotation of chicken fingers. Hamburgers, quesadillas, Repeat.

[Stephen Colbert]

Pork loin. Pork loin.

[Ina Garten]

Right.

[Stephen Colbert]

Pork loin.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Because they would only eat certain foods.

[Ina Garten]

Jeffrey, when his mother was quite elderly, said to her, she said to him, what did I used to cook? I just don't remember what I used to cook. And he said, well, you'd have chicken on Monday. Exactly the same thing. You have lamb chops on Tuesday, and you'd have fish sticks on Wednesday. She said, fish sticks. I don't remember going to the fish store. Well, so that tells you everything.

[Stephen Colbert]

Growing up in a big Irish Catholic family. A lot of fish sticks.

[Ina Garten]

A lot of fish sticks.

[Stephen Colbert]

And this is the quality of cook that my mother was. If it wasn't a recipe from the back of a can or a bottle, she didn't know it. So we would get the Mrs. Paul's fish sticks, nice and crispy, sometimes a little Too crispy. A little too crispy. But she would soften that up because she would take a can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup, heat it up, and not add any milk or water to it. And I believe it was a serving suggestion, like a partnership between the Mrs. Paul's people and Campbell's. And then he would ladle the condensed tomato soup over the fish stick to this day.

[Ina Garten]

See, that's what I mean. It's not in your box. Fantastic.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

No, that we didn't put. We had a rule. Nothing off the back of a can.

[Stephen Colbert]

Or a Nothing off the back of a can. So that's why that's only two of my brother's recipes making it into the entire thing we ate. Because we were free range children. Because my mom didn't have time. You know, there was. Everything was always chaos. She didn't have time to, like, you know, a, feed us all the time or follow us all the time. So we would make anything that we could get our hands on. And I don't know how many of my meals as a child were mayonnaise and mustard mixed together with a dash of paprika on a saltine cracker.

[Ina Garten]

That's your meal.

[Stephen Colbert]

That would be it. That would be it. Or smashed Braunschweig.

[Ina Garten]

What is it?

[Stephen Colbert]

Braunschweiger.

[Ina Garten]

No. What's that?

[Stephen Colbert]

Liver sausage.

[Ina Garten]

Ooh.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, I know.

[Stephen Colbert]

Liver sausage with ketchup mashed with a fork. It looks like a shot from the Wild Bunch. And then you put it sounds like.

[Ina Garten]

Something that you find in the woods.

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. Yes. And then put that on a cracker.

[Ina Garten]

Oh, that's hilarious.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

So funny.

[Ina Garten]

From that to foie gras. How did that happen?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's a really good question. That's Steven's. I think that should be the subtitle of your autobiography from brownscheiger to foie gras.

[Ina Garten]

Absolutely.

[Stephen Colbert]

A journey. A journey.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's exactly right.

[Liberty Mutual Announcer]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

But the book's really about, like, what it's like to hang out with us in our life and our kitchen and. And at our parties and stuff like that. But, like, now that we've done it once, it's an enormous amount of work.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

So much work.

[Stephen Colbert]

There's so many moving pieces.

[Ina Garten]

And one sentence that you write that makes sense to you means something totally different to somebody else.

[Greenlight Announcer]

True.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

And then you get the copy editing.

[Ina Garten]

The copy editing goes crazy. That's one of the things about cookbooks. They go berserk.

[LHH Announcer]

Yeah.

[Ina Garten]

And one of them I just handed back because on the second, it was a recipe for, like, banana Bread. And I had one banana, comma, mashed. And the copy editor wrote peeled and mashed. And that's when I took the book and threw it against the wall. I was like, a monkey knows to peel a banana.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Exactly, too. Where we wrote. I think they can figure that out.

[Stephen Colbert]

What's the option?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, I think one of the things that's so interesting about the book is Stephen and I each introduce every recipe. So it turns into a little dialogue between the two of us. And I don't even remember how we got there. What made us do that?

[Stephen Colbert]

I think the very first thing we sat down to write, we were talking back and forth from each other, and I just typed it out like it was a script. Oh, I like that it's a script.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

As we worked on it, it would be funny because it's like having homework, right? It was like, I got mine in. And then he'd be like, I haven't written that one yet.

[Stephen Colbert]

I've already done my part of the biscuits. You have to respond to me. I'm like, why am I responding to you? They're my biscuit recipe. It's like, well, you slept on it. Now I've set the tone for the whole biscuit recipe.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It's true.

[Ina Garten]

And that's great. And that really comes out in the book. It is fun. Is that kind of fun? Just what you do?

[Stephen Colbert]

I don't think we'd be doing this cookbook if it wasn't for Evie laughing. Because during COVID she was my only crew. She was my only guest that I could have in person because we're all in lockdown. And then we realized I was always so nervous to work with her because what if we didn't work together? Well, what would that do to our relationship? But then we had to work together, and then it was so much fun. It was fun, and there's no laugh. I remember as a young comedian thinking, God, I love the way she laughs. I wish I could make an audience laugh the way I can make Evvy laugh, which is, like, natural and just, you know, hanging out with the audience, if you know what I mean. And that just making you laugh for those 15 months where you were my only audience, said to me that we could do something together. And that's how the cookbook came about. Like, oh, let's do this project together.

[Ina Garten]

So writing a cookbook's so much more than just the recipes. Oh, yeah. It's photographs. It's putting the object together. I mean, I get down to the weeds, like, how the book opens so that it lays flat because a cookbook has to lay flat. So how did you do the rest of it? It's so joyful and it's so a reflection of your lives. How did you make that happen? Because most people don't realize how important that is. And it is in your book?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, I think part of it is our photographer, Eric Wolfinger, Brilliant, was wonderful. And he saw, he came down and we shot it all at our beach house and he saw how we lived. He sort of, he met our family, our dog. My dad showed up one day and he's like, we have to put your father in the book. So he got to know us and I think he would say, tell us what you, tell me what you do. And Stephen said, well, I love to go fishing. So he said let's go, let's get in the boat.

[Ina Garten]

Let's go with the dog. Right?

[Finn AI Announcer]

Right.

[Ina Garten]

Yeah. With his ears like we walked on the beach.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It was just, it was sort of the way we live. He captured the way we live.

[Ina Garten]

So he brilliantly art directed the book as well as photographs.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

He really did.

[Ina Garten]

So what a blessing that is.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It really was.

[Ina Garten]

It really just makes you want to make everything in and have that life.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, that's so nice.

[Ina Garten]

It really does. Ok. Will you cook something for your book?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

We will try.

[Ina Garten]

What are you going to make?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I'm going to try to make a green goddess dip for like crudites.

[Ina Garten]

Oh, that sounds fabulous. What are you going to make?

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm going to make something called a Capri Sunset.

[Ina Garten]

Sounds like a cocktail, right?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It is.

[Ina Garten]

That sounds great. Coming up, family recipes, family differences.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I said she wasn't hot and I.

[Stephen Colbert]

Said yes she was.

[Ina Garten]

And a signature sunset cocktail with Jeffrey.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

The best.

[Ina Garten]

Thank you.

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[Ina Garten]

I'm here with my friends Stephen and Evie, and we're having way too much fun. Are you cooking for me?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I am. I'm going to make you green goddess dip.

[Ina Garten]

And you're making cocktails.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes. So I should go.

[Ina Garten]

We're in trouble.

[Finn AI Announcer]

Go over there.

[Ina Garten]

Go. Ok. Are you good at making snarky comments?

[Stephen Colbert]

I have insightful observations about the world.

[Ina Garten]

Ina otherwise, not snarky comments.

[Stephen Colbert]

Here's my first snarky comment. I am morally opposed to radish.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I know you would say that because.

[Ina Garten]

They look delicious and they are.

[Stephen Colbert]

No, they're a punishment from God. We have a. Before I start the show, every night, we have a big vegetable platter for me to go through, and they always put radishes on. And I know I hate them, but I insist they.

[Ina Garten]

And they put them on anyway.

[Stephen Colbert]

I insist they keep them because I only use them to shoot baskets into the trash can while we're rewriting.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, God.

[Ina Garten]

Oh, the radishes. Feelings are hurt.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

They are.

[Ina Garten]

I'm sorry.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

All right.

[Ina Garten]

Okay. Green dressing. Should I start?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Okay. Okay. It's like most of our recipes. It has mayonnaise in it. So you start with half a cup of mayonnaise.

[Ina Garten]

Good mayonnaise.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's actually sour cream.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

That's actually sour cream. Stop it, Snarky man. This is the sour cream. I picked up the wrong one. So it's a half a cup of sour cream, half a cup of mayonnaise.

[Ina Garten]

Okay. Am I arranging?

[Mint Mobile Announcer]

You're arranging.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Would you mind?

[Ina Garten]

Okay, great. I'd be delighted to.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

So now's the mayonnaise.

[Ina Garten]

You trust me?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Do I trust you? I revere you. All right, so we've got the sour cream and the mayonnaise. And then we've got some green onion tops. Then we have flat parsley here. And we have tarragon. A little bit of tarragon goes in.

[Ina Garten]

I need advice.

[LHH Announcer]

And chives.

[Ina Garten]

Are we putting those on or are we serving them with them?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Let's serve them differently. Okay, great. Let's do the whole thing with the veggies.

[Stephen Colbert]

They're so beautiful because the vegetables will look fantastic and healthy. And then we'll use the potato chips.

[Ina Garten]

We'll just see dipping potato chips. Right, exactly.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

So then there's actually a little bit of anchovy paste in this.

[Ina Garten]

I love anchovy paste.

[Liberty Mutual Announcer]

Do you?

[Ina Garten]

You don't know what's in there, but it makes everything taste better.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It's so true.

[Stephen Colbert]

I hope it's anchovy. I think if you. It's an anchovy paste. I hope it's just anchovy that's in there.

[Ina Garten]

It's just anchovy.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

But you don't know what's in the recipe.

[Stephen Colbert]

You don't know what's in the recipe. He says anchovy paste.

[LHH Announcer]

I love it.

[Stephen Colbert]

You don't know what's in there?

[LHH Announcer]

No.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

But if you tell someone there's anchovy paste, they might eat it.

[Ina Garten]

Exactly.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

All right, put that in there. So I add a little lemon juice to this. Now, sometimes I can add too much lemon juice, so sometimes I start with a small amount and add more if I need it.

[Ina Garten]

Always a good plan. You can never take it out.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

You can't take it out.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was fascinated to learn that Green Goddess is actually an old recipe. I always thought that Green Goddess was sort of dreamt up by the, you know, the scientists at seven seas or something. But it was invented in 1923 in San Francisco by a chef who was honoring the cast of a play called the Green Goddess.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Really?

[Ina Garten]

Whoa.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's where I came from.

[Ina Garten]

Whoa.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I think we need a little bit.

[Ina Garten]

Of adaptive, esoteric knowledge. Right.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Just kind of unnecessary.

[Ina Garten]

Fascinating and interesting.

[Stephen Colbert]

Unnecessary knowledge.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Well, I mean, you know, that's what.

[Stephen Colbert]

My entire career is built on.

[Ina Garten]

All right, Little bit of salt and of course, we'll all eat the potato chips, so.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, we have to eat the potato chips. So it's our sister in law, Kitty, who gave us this recipe. And when we would drive our kids from Jersey all the way down to South Carolina. We. After four hours, I was ready to die, because you have three kids and a dog and the bikes and everything. So we'd stop in Washington, and she'd have Green Goddess dip and a cold glass of white wine waiting. And it was heaven.

[LHH Announcer]

Perfect.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It was perfect. It was heaven.

[Ina Garten]

All you want.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Now, should we put it in the bowl?

[Ina Garten]

So am I right? Jennifer Garner used to be your babysitter?

[Stephen Colbert]

She did, yes. She was briefly our babysitter in New York.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Our daughter Madeline was a baby, and she was so cute with her. And we thought, oh, just be a babysitter. You don't have to be an actress. That's a hard career. Just be a babysitter. She told us she was gonna move to Hollywood. Stephen and I were like, oh, that's.

[Stephen Colbert]

Gonna be so hard for you.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I hope you get a commercial or two gobbled up. You'll have to wait tables for a long time.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was driving to work one day at the Daily show, and I'm going down. I'm coming down the Lincoln Tunnel, and there, eight stories tall, is a poster of her in the catsuit from Alias with the red wig and the gun. And I nearly drove up up on the sidewalk, and it shows on the COVID of TV Guide. And I showed it to Evie when I got home, and I said, guess who that is? And she goes, I don't know. A guest on the Daily show tonight. And I said, no, it's Jen. She goes, jen Garner? And you said.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I said she wasn't hot.

[Stephen Colbert]

And I said, yes, she was.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

And you said, why didn't you say anything?

[Stephen Colbert]

And I said, what was I supposed to say? Have you noticed how incredibly hot the babysitter is? How do you think that would have gone over?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Not well.

[Ina Garten]

Not well.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

No, she's not. Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

She's so wonderful. She's such a lovely person.

[Ina Garten]

I just adore her.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

What do you think? Do you want to taste it?

[Ina Garten]

Yeah, tell me. If I taste it.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

What If I did it, am I.

[Stephen Colbert]

Allowed to come back?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I don't know if I did. I'm nervous. I'm nervous.

[Ina Garten]

Oh, my God. It's so delicious.

[Stephen Colbert]

I really am.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It's very sweet.

[Ina Garten]

It's so fresh.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

It's very fresh because of all of.

[Ina Garten]

The onion and the herbs. Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

Nice consistency.

[Ina Garten]

I'm going back in.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Go back in.

[Ina Garten]

I'm just making sure it's okay. Oh, good.

[Stephen Colbert]

So good. Okay.

[Ina Garten]

We ready for a cocktail?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I am.

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm ready to mix. Where's the mood.

[Ina Garten]

Always ready for a cocktail.

[Greenlight Announcer]

Always.

[Ina Garten]

And it's always cocktail time when it's fun, right?

[Stephen Colbert]

That's exactly right.

[Ina Garten]

What are you making?

[Stephen Colbert]

I'm going to make something that we call a Capri sunset.

[Ina Garten]

Ooh, that sounds good.

[Stephen Colbert]

Because it kind of looks like a tequila sunrise.

[Ina Garten]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

But I'll show you how I go through it.

[Ina Garten]

Okay. You're in the snark chair.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

I'm in the snark chair. I'm ready. Go for it. Don't use your fingers. That's.

[Stephen Colbert]

I just washed my hands. It's just. Do you want me to use the tongs?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

Those are so impractical.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

No, but that's.

[Stephen Colbert]

Is this an hour long show? How long is this?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

How would you feel if the bartender used his fingers to put the ice.

[Ina Garten]

He's not the bartender.

[Stephen Colbert]

If he was a friend of mine, I would say that would be lovely. Don't tell Jeffrey. Here, this will be Jeffrey.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Je ne sais quoi.

[Stephen Colbert]

This one right here in the corner will be Jeffrey's. He looks like a man who usually. Who understands sanitary conditions. Okay, so I am lucky enough to occasionally go have drinks with Dick Cavett.

[Ina Garten]

Yeah.

[Stephen Colbert]

And Dick always orders a orange juice and Campari, which he says he learned from Marlon Brando.

[Ina Garten]

It's a very good provenance.

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. But it's not strong enough for me. So I like to use the orange juice. And then I add a Mississippi, one Mississippi two. A vodka. Mississippi, one Mississippi two. Kind of Mississippi, one Mississippi two. There you go. Mississippi, one Mississippi two. So far it's a screwdriver. Then you lighten it up with a little soda water.

[Ina Garten]

Okay.

[Stephen Colbert]

Like that. Which is nice. And then this is my particular favorite Campari.

[Ina Garten]

That's your favorite. Which you don't know that I drink all the time.

[Stephen Colbert]

I did not know Khemari and soda. And you basically you do a little, lovely little float of Campari over the top.

[Ina Garten]

It does look like a sunset.

[Stephen Colbert]

It does.

[Ina Garten]

And that's it.

[Stephen Colbert]

That is it.

[Ina Garten]

That's your entire cooking segment.

[Stephen Colbert]

What?

[Ina Garten]

Do it for the rest of the summer.

[Stephen Colbert]

I was asked to do cocktails. If you want, I can make you an Old Fashioned.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Thank you.

[Ina Garten]

And are we going to drink Jeffrey's too? Are we taking the.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, this is Jeffrey's. That's the clean ice. This is mine.

[Ina Garten]

Let's make sure it's good before Jeffrey gets.

[Stephen Colbert]

There you go.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Oh, cheers.

[Stephen Colbert]

Cheers.

[Ina Garten]

Cheers.

[LHH Announcer]

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[Ina Garten]

Thank you. How fun. How fun.

[Stephen Colbert]

I love the sweetness and the bitterness of Campari.

[Ina Garten]

That's delicious. I do, too. Yeah. Thank you. That's delicious.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's my summertime.

[Ina Garten]

To great cocktails. And let's go find Jeffrey. How's that?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Let's do it. Oh, we've had the best day.

[Ina Garten]

The best, Sharon.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

The best.

[Ina Garten]

Thank you. What's our next play date?

[Evie McGee Colbert]

We need to plan. We need to plan.

[Stephen Colbert]

We'll just call you. 15 minutes. We'll just ring your doorbell.

[Ina Garten]

Perfect.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Even better.

[Stephen Colbert]

Hope you don't mind if we're in our pajamas.

[Ina Garten]

We'll be in ours.

[Stephen Colbert]

I keep on the pajamas until I have to go outside. And I put the pajamas on as soon as I get back in the house.

[Ina Garten]

It sounds like us, doesn't it?

[Stephen Colbert]

Well, I know during the pandemic, I had three sweatsuits, and for two years, I think that's all I ever wore.

[Ina Garten]

I love that.

[Stephen Colbert]

Are there photos? I've never been so comfortable in my whole life. That's really good.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

You like it?

[Stephen Colbert]

Yay. Cheers.

[Ina Garten]

Cheers. Cheers.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you so much.

[Ina Garten]

Thank you so much.

[Evie McGee Colbert]

Had such a love.

[Ina Garten]

How fabulous was that? If you love this episode of Be My Guest, the podcast with me, Ina Garten, please make sure to rate and review us on Apple podcasts. It would mean so much to me. Thanks. Cheers.

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