Stephen Colbert (2:31)

Uh, oh.

Eugene Levy (2:32)

Uh, oh, no, no, no, no. I didn't mean, oh, oh. I meant oh, oh, oh. I'm gonna set this over here.

Stephen Colbert (2:40)

Please. Welcome back to the Late Show. Eugene Levy. Nice to see you again. Last time you were here, you had just become a grandfather. How old is the boy now?

Eugene Levy (2:56)

Oh, Jamesy. Yes. He just turned three.

Stephen Colbert (2:59)

Three. Oh, that's three.

Eugene Levy (3:00)

Just turned three. And he's getting cuter by the day. You know, he went through a phase recently where he would start every sentence with the word unfortunately.

Stephen Colbert (3:13)

Really?

Eugene Levy (3:14)

Yeah. What are you eating, James? Unfortunately, an apple. Unfortunately. Can you read me a story?

Stephen Colbert (3:22)

Do you know what unfortunately means?

Eugene Levy (3:24)

No, he's not saying it to be funny. I think. I think it's more in case you think I'm not smart.

Stephen Colbert (3:35)

Someone around the house is saying the word unfortunately a lot.

Eugene Levy (3:38)

He picked it up from, you know, from some. Too big a word for me. Yeah.

Stephen Colbert (3:42)

Here you guys are. There you go. What's your. I like. They're blonde. I like that. Like the. I like the blonde there. What? Yeah, blonde's got the eyebrows.

Eugene Levy (3:55)

Yeah. As I say, find the Jew right here. Okay.

Stephen Colbert (4:05)

I'm gonna. I'm gonna leave that one there.

Eugene Levy (4:07)

Doesn't get it from me.

Stephen Colbert (4:11)

What's your favorite thing about being a grandpa? And are you grandpa or do you have a papa?

Eugene Levy (4:17)

Papa, yeah. Papa and nanny. Yeah. No, it's. Well, you know, when you're raising your own kids, you just. Of course, you cannot love them more, but it's hard work to raise a kid, you know, with a grandchild. It's just fun and games. You know what I mean? If things don't. If things go south, behavior wise, you know, it's somebody else's problem.

Stephen Colbert (4:40)

Here's your child back.

Eugene Levy (4:42)

The grand folks are moving on.

Stephen Colbert (4:45)

Okay. Emmys are this weekend. Emmys are the weekend you and your son Dan hosted last year.

Eugene Levy (4:49)

Yes.

Stephen Colbert (4:50)

Was that fun? Here, you guys. There you go, looking just as dashing.

Eugene Levy (4:55)

Yeah, Very nice.

Stephen Colbert (4:56)

Father, son. A little comedy dynasty there.

Eugene Levy (4:59)

Yeah, well, you know, it was one of those once in a lifetime experiences, and that's why we did it. Like I said on the show, we're not comedians. We don't do jokes. You know, we're actors who act the part of comedians, I guess, you know, and they said to us whether we wanted to try out the material and go. To go to these comedy clubs to try out the material before the broadcast.

Stephen Colbert (5:24)

Like, do like your Emmys monologue at Margo.

Eugene Levy (5:26)

Yeah, yeah. To try it out. And that just scared the Hell out of me. You know, it's why I didn't go into standup comedy. You know, the idea of being alone on a stage in front of an audience and wondering whether they, like. You don't know whether you've ever gone through that. No, no, no. But that's why. That's why I went into improvisational theater at the Second City. Right.

Stephen Colbert (5:49)

Improv is. You're always with somebody else.

Eugene Levy (5:51)

That's it.

Stephen Colbert (5:52)

You're never alone.

Eugene Levy (5:54)

You are. You are in a troop. So if I go down, I'm going to take some people with me. That's the premise there, right.

Stephen Colbert (6:05)

As one of my friends said when we were being arrested by the side of the road in Ohio, they said, what are you people? And he goes, we're a comedy troupe, trooper. And we told him to shut up. We have to take a quick break. We're right back with more Eugene Levy, everybody. Stick around. Your. Your show, the Reluctant Traveler.

Eugene Levy (6:44)

Yeah.

Stephen Colbert (6:45)

Is back for its third season. Okay.

Eugene Levy (6:47)

Yeah.

Stephen Colbert (6:47)

So three. Three seasons in here.

Eugene Levy (6:49)

Yeah.

Stephen Colbert (6:50)

Have you. Dare I ask. Dare. Dare I ask, have you become a better or at least less reluctant traveler these days?

Eugene Levy (6:58)

I am a less reluctant traveler. I'm inching my way towards being a seasoned traveler. You know, I'm not.

Stephen Colbert (7:06)

I thought you were going to say enthusiastic.

Eugene Levy (7:10)

I'm learning to be an enthusiastic traveler. Listen, you know, just getting through the airport, getting through that thing, getting over the jet lag, those are things that I don't know whether you ever get over it, you know, but once you're actually there, I'm learning to. Through the people that I'm encountering on these trips, I'm actually learning to experience the country and the culture through the people that I'm meeting and their families. So it's through the people this season.

Stephen Colbert (7:45)

I understand the theme is bucket list for you.

Eugene Levy (7:49)

Yeah.

Stephen Colbert (7:49)

Okay. Can you tell us any of the bucket lists?

Eugene Levy (7:53)

Yeah, it's.

Stephen Colbert (7:53)

I don't want to give away the whole.

Eugene Levy (7:54)

Well, I kind of. Yeah, it was my. I came up with a bucket list this year, you know, put myself in the shoes of an experienced traveler and tried to come up with a list that an experienced traveler would be on. So we came up with, like, this is going to be an exciting season. We came up with being in Mexico for Day of the Dead festival. We're in Ireland for. To celebrate St. Patrick's Day this past March. Yeah, I was there. Oh. Just in a small coastal town.

Stephen Colbert (8:26)

Oh, wow.

Eugene Levy (8:27)

Galway. Sure, sure.

Stephen Colbert (8:29)

Small little.

Eugene Levy (8:30)

Small little in Western Ireland. You know, a town maybe 100,000 people in the town. 90,000 showed up for the parade.

Stephen Colbert (8:38)

I understand you went to Vienna. Yeah, I love Vienna.

Eugene Levy (8:43)

You love Vienna.

Stephen Colbert (8:43)

Quality town.

Eugene Levy (8:44)

I had never been there, but it's one city that I always wanted to go to because it's one of those classic, you know, European cities that seem to have a lot of, you know, culture. It was an amazing experience in Vienna.

Stephen Colbert (8:56)

It was the seat of the Holy Rompen and the Habsburg empires. And it never burned. Like. It's like if you went to Rome, but Rome never fell. It's so beautiful. It's all imperial and extremely.

Eugene Levy (9:08)

Oh, my God. It is. It's just classic, classic beauty. And they have. You know, that town holds 200 balls.

Stephen Colbert (9:18)

Formal balls, like My Fair lady kind of balls.

Eugene Levy (9:21)

Yes. In the span of two months every winter, really. And we went to the biggest one, which was the Vienna Philharmonic ball.

Stephen Colbert (9:29)

You went to a ball?

Eugene Levy (9:31)

Yes.

Stephen Colbert (9:31)

Did you wear tails?

Eugene Levy (9:33)

White tie tails. It was an amazing experience. I actually had the opportunity to waltz with the great granddaughter of Ricard Strauss. Wow. Not of the Levi Strauss clan.

Stephen Colbert (9:48)

Quality.

Eugene Levy (9:49)

Quality product of the Strauss waltz clan. And that was an amazing experience.

Stephen Colbert (9:55)

I didn't know you were a waltzer.

Eugene Levy (9:56)

Not for her.

Stephen Colbert (9:57)

Well, really not for her.

Eugene Levy (9:59)

I mean, talk about two left feet. This is. This was not a great. I don't know if anybody's tried waltzing on a crowded dance floor lately, but.

Stephen Colbert (10:09)

I think sweeping turns and everything like that.

Eugene Levy (10:12)

Well, let's put it this way. I think the welts on her ankles have gone down by now.

Stephen Colbert (10:17)

Anything. So that's the bucket list. Are you done or are there going to be another season?

Eugene Levy (10:23)

Well, I don't know.

Stephen Colbert (10:24)

Up to you.

Eugene Levy (10:24)

I think there's going to be another season. It's not entirely up to me, but, you know, if you'd like to see one. Pass it on.

Stephen Colbert (10:32)

Eugene, thank you so much for being here. Season three of the Reluctant Traveler premieres September 19th on Apple TV. Thank you for listening to the Late Show Pod show with Stephen Colbert. Just one more thing. If you want to see more of me, come to The Late Show YouTube channel for more clips and exclusives.

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Eugene Levy (11:55)

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