Melissa McCarthy | Throne In Jail

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert

Episode: Melissa McCarthy | Throne In Jail
Date: February 20, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode features Emmy-winning actress Melissa McCarthy as Stephen Colbert’s guest. The show balances its signature blend of political satire, topical monologues, and warm, humorous conversation. Stephen’s “froggy” voice from a cold sets a playful tone, while news topics like Prince Andrew’s legal woes, Trump’s imaginary ‘Board of Peace’, and Reese’s candy controversy are explored. The main event is a candid, affectionate, and funny chat with Melissa McCarthy—with plenty of memorable anecdotes, laughter, and mutual appreciation.

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Key Segments & Discussions

1. Monologue & Topical Jokes

Start: 01:06

• Stephen’s Voice & NYC Weather:
  Stephen opens by joking about his hoarse voice and the early spring thaw revealing "piles of uncollected dog poop, like mastodon bones emerging from permafrost" ([01:19]).

• Prince Andrew Arrested:
  Colbert jests that British Justice is "better than American justice because it comes with free…" ([01:45]). He riffs on the charges (“serious willful abuse or neglect of power”) and points out how such acts "were Trump’s campaign slogan" ([02:40]).

• Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’:
  Satirical take on Trump's creation of a new international organization, described as "kind of like the UN except… you pass a greasy bag of money to Donald Trump because a permanent seat is $1 billion in cash" ([03:22]).

  • “So the Board of Peace works kind of like a strip club. Cash only. And Donald Trump will never leave” ([03:47]).

• Countries Participating:
  Colbert lampoons the unglamorous list of countries who’ve joined: “It’s the EPCOT of places Goofy was jailed without a trial” ([04:27]).

• Trump’s Peace Board Event:
  Stephen jokes about event confusion due to everything being renamed for Trump: “Driver, take me to the Trump Building. Which one, Mac? The airport, the theater, The Peace Building, or the House of Pancakes?” ([04:56]).

• Trump Introduces the President of Paraguay
  An audio clip of Trump introducing Paraguay’s president, stumbling over his words:

  • "Young, handsome guy. It's always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn't mean we have to like you. I don't like young, handsome men. Women." ([05:49])

• Board of Peace’s Mission:
  "The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly." ([06:51])
  Colbert mocks: “Yes, they’re almost going to be doing… something” ([06:57]).

• Aliens & Obama Podcast Joke:
  Discusses Obama’s tongue-in-cheek podcast comment admitting aliens are real:

  • “Classified information should not be shared on podcasts. It should be safely stored in the Mar-a-Lago security toilet.” ([08:41])
  • Peter Doocy asks Trump if aliens are real; Trump dodges: “Well, I don't know if they're real or not. No. I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it.” ([09:05])

• Washington Sewage Spill:
  Ongoing Potomac River story: “Man, that is a tough assignment. Regretting all the life choices that have brought me here today. I'm Mark Segraves, and my mouth tastes like boiling hot dookie.” ([10:08])

• Reese’s Recipe Controversy:
  Jokes about the grandson of Reese’s founder criticizing Hershey’s for “cutting corners.”

  • “I guess you could say that Brad Reese is in pieces. Did it play? Did it play? I don't know.” ([11:37])
  • “What demand for innovation? Reese's couldn't possibly innovate more. They've already churned out mini cups and thin cups, big cups and eggs, pumpkins, trees, sticks, clusters, globs, blobs, and body wash. Admittedly, some of these are not real yet.” ([12:38])

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2. Interview: Melissa McCarthy

Guest Segment Starts: 14:49

Opening & Warmth

• Melissa’s Glam Look:
  Stephen: “You look love straight from here to the Met Ball, I assume. You look so glamorous. Sparkles and everything.” ([15:10])
  Melissa: “Thank you… You make us laugh. You lead with kindness… You aggressively love and make people laugh and stay on point with the truth and do it all in this beautiful human. It's pretty damn good.” ([15:51])

• Mutual Admiration:
  Melissa and Stephen share a heartfelt moment:

  • "Can I hug you?" – both, simultaneously ([16:21])
  • “I want as many hugs as I can get.” – Melissa ([16:23])

Family & Finger-Fracture Story

• Freak Injury Echoing Her Dad:
  Melissa recounts how, mocking her dad's injury, she fractured her own finger ([16:35]):

  • “I slammed my hand into the base of the table I was sitting at and fractured my finger.”
  • Ben Falcone’s perspective: “You seem to think you're mocking him. You're just acting like yourself.” ([17:24])
  • She got her finger checked during her dad's surgery: “Dr. Chen…he's like, yeah, you fractured it. Good job.” ([18:06])

• Double-Middle-Fingers Family Tradition:
  During COVID, the McCarthy-Falcone clan had a family game of (playfully) flipping each other off:

  • “My dad started doing it, which I've never seen… And my mom wouldn't do it. My mom would just go, I'll give you lots of fingers.” ([18:35])

Parenting, Empty Nesting & Life with Ben Falcone

• Daughter in College:
  Melissa discusses her daughter's transition to college:

  • “I have one in college. She was a freshman.” ([19:53])
    Stephen shares his own empty-nest experience:
  • “It's important. And I rediscovered this, because we're true empty nesters now… All three kids are out.” ([20:09])

• Living with Ben Falcone:
  Melissa describes Ben as “the greatest. He makes me belly laugh ten times a day. He's super weird in a compelling weird.” ([20:17])

  • Ben moves so quietly, it's creepy: “He moves like a cat. He's absolutely silent… I keep telling him I’m gonna put a bell on him.” ([20:24])

Recording with Barbra Streisand

• Collaborating on a Song:
  Stephen: “You recorded a song with her.” ([21:15])
  Melissa details thinking the offer was a prank before singing “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” with Barbra.

  • “We changed a few lines. Of course, she was like, I've cleared it… I am not singing to Barbra Streisand and saying things that you're actually doing something bad.” ([21:43])

• Streisand’s Studio Habits:
  “I met her, and she just was eating lunch meat, which I was like, this is unexpected.” ([22:03])

  • “She kept doing the funny thing… when you get on the note, stay on the note… if I could do that or knew what you were talking about…” ([22:11])

• Streisand’s Dogs:
  “Two of them were clones. She's lovely.” ([22:21])

• Audiobook Cameo:
  Stephen shares that Barbra had him record a line for her audiobook:

  • "'My Name is Barbra' by Barbra Streisand. Read to you by the author. Immortality.” ([23:17])

Lively Close

• Fond Farewells:
  Melissa: “It's lovely to be here… I wish we both had sweaters on.” ([23:41])
  Stephen: “You're a modern-day Mister Rogers.” ([23:53])
  Melissa: “That's very kind… I'll find you.” ([24:02])

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On International Peace:
  Stephen Colbert (03:47):
  “So the Board of Peace works kind of like a strip club. Cash only. And Donald Trump will never leave.”

• On Trump’s Board of Peace:
  Stephen Colbert (06:57):
  “Yes, they're almost going to be doing… something.”

• On Family Fun:
  Melissa McCarthy (18:35):
  “It became a weird McCarthy Falcone tradition during COVID at one point… my dad started doing it, which I've never seen…”

• On Ben Falcone:
  Melissa McCarthy (20:17):
  “He makes me belly laugh ten times a day. He's super weird in a compelling weird.”

• On Meeting Barbra Streisand:
  Melissa McCarthy (22:03):
  “I met her, and she just was eating lunch meat, which I was like, this is unexpected.”

• On Advice from Streisand:
  Melissa McCarthy (22:11):
  “She kept doing… when you get on the note, stay on the note. If I could do that or knew what you were talking about… it’s like Michael Jordan saying, all you have to do is take the ball, put it in the note…”

• On Hosting:
  Melissa McCarthy (15:51):
  “You make us laugh. You lead with kindness… you aggressively love and make people laugh and stay on point with the truth and do it all in this beautiful human. It's pretty damn good.”

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:06] — Monologue begins: Colbert’s cold, NYC weather, Prince Andrew
• [03:22] — Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ satire
• [05:49] — Trump introduces President of Paraguay (audio clip)
• [08:30] — Obama’s alien joke and Trump’s response
• [10:08] — Potomac River sewage spill news satire
• [11:37] — Reese’s recipe controversy
• [14:49] — Melissa McCarthy guest interview begins
• [16:35] — Melissa’s fractured finger story
• [18:35] — Family traditions: middle fingers during COVID
• [19:53] — Daughter goes to college
• [20:17] — Life and laughter with Ben Falcone
• [21:15] — Recording a song with Barbra Streisand
• [22:03] — Meeting Streisand: lunch meat & vocal tips
• [23:17] — Stephen’s cameo reading for Streisand’s audiobook
• [23:41] — Lively and affectionate episode close

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Tone & Style

The episode is rich in humor, warmth, and mutual admiration. Stephen’s satire is sharp yet good-natured, and Melissa’s anecdotes bring authenticity and joy. The conversation is intimate and playful, brimming with wit and heart.

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For listeners and fans of both The Late Show and Melissa McCarthy, this episode serves as a perfect capsule of late-night fun, affectionate celebrity chat, and the kind of spontaneous hilarity only Stephen Colbert can deliver.

Transcript

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[Commercial Narrator]

This is a legitimate organization where there are tens of member countries from around the world.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Really?

[Stephen Colbert]

Tens, you say? Impressive. I don't want to brag about my personal wealth, but I am a tenunaire. This morning, Trump met with the Trump Peace Board in D.C. at the U.S. institute of Peace, which he recently renamed the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. At a certain point, all this renaming is going to get confusing for everyone. Driver, take me to the Trump Building. Which one, Mac? The airport, the theater, The Peace Building, or the House of Pancakes? By the way, by the way, by the way. Do you want this big salty pretzel? Thought it was a steering wheel.

[Melissa McCarthy]

It's not.

[Stephen Colbert]

Trump treated the world leaders to a classic dribble cup sundown ramble fest. Here he is introducing the President of Paraguay.

[Guest or Correspondent]

President Pena of Paraguay is here. President. President. Thank you very much. Young, handsome guy. It's always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn't mean we have to like you. I don't like young, handsome men. Women.

[Stephen Colbert]

Does he know we can hear him? Sir, Sir. Especially right now. Ixnay on the ongye Immenwe. If he doesn't stop yapping, Pam Bondi is going to have to start live redacting. Trump laid out. Trump laid out. I don't know what I'm dancing to. Trump laid out his vision for the relationship between the peace Board and the United Nations.

[Guest or Correspondent]

The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United nations and making sure it runs properly.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yes, they're almost going to be doing

[Guest or Correspondent]

something

[Stephen Colbert]

now that they've raised billions of dollars. Their first mission, figuring out why other things happened. Today he complained about Norway not giving him the Nobel. He bragged about Melania's movie, then ended by banging a golden gavel, after which they played the traditional international peace song. Thank you.

[Guest or Correspondent]

We'll take it with us. Thank you, everybody.

[Stephen Colbert]

It might seem strange, but party jams have always been part of international peace. Don't forget the Camp David Accords. Thank you very much. That's what I was dancing to. That's what I was dancing to. After he fixed peace, he flew off to Georgia and gave reporters kind of a weird statement on Air Force One. Remember over the weekend when President Obama casually said on a podcast that aliens were real and then quickly walked it back the next day? Probably because aliens got to him. Well, this afternoon, Fox's Peter Doocy asked Trump about that, something that got a lot of attention this week. Barack Obama said that aliens are real. Have you seen any evidence of non human visitors to Earth?

[Guest or Correspondent]

Well, he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah,

[Stephen Colbert]

Here's the thing. Here's the thing. He is right about that. He is right about that. Classified information should not be shared on podcasts. It should be safely stored in the Mar? A Lago security toilet. But as, as Peter Doocy pointed out, Trump saying that Obama leaked classified information has got to mean that aliens are real, right? So aliens are real.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Well, I don't know if they're real or not. No. I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it.

[Stephen Colbert]

He doesn't. While Trump never talks about meeting aliens, we do know he's had close encounters with predators. Now, one reason, one reason, one reason Trump might have left Washington is because the city is still dealing with millions of gallons of sewage spilled into the Potomac river, causing a horrific smell, what appears to be the largest discharge in the nation's history. Though I thought the largest discharge in the nation's history happened after Kid Rock and RFK Jr drank whole milk in a hot tub. Whole milk in a hot tub. For more, for more, we turn to our colleagues at WRC TV, Washington, DC's number one, number two news leader. As I've said before to you guys, not only can you smell this when

[Guest or Correspondent]

you're out here, but it is just so pungent.

[Stephen Colbert]

You can taste it when you're talking. Man, that is a tough assignment. Regretting all the life choices that have brought me here today. I'm Mark Segraves, and my mouth tastes like boiling hot dookie. Now let's head over. Now let's head over to the sports desk with Ronnie Diarrhea. I'M sorry. The Sports desk with Ronnie Diarrhea. Thanks, Mark. I've been delaying this, but I think it's important at last that we address the most pressing issue of the day. The grandson of the inventor of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups has accused Hershey of cutting corners. Wait, wait. There used to be corners. They'd be so great to nibble. Reese says you owe me a lifetime of delicious edging. The angry grandson in question here is Brad Reese, seen here leading exactly the life you'd think the grandson of a candy empire would lead. Brad accuses Hershey of hurting the Reese's brand by shifting to cheaper ingredients, claiming that now the peanut butter cups are not edible. I used to eat a Reese's product every day. It is very devastating to me. Yes, he's devastated. I guess you could say that. Brad Reese is in pieces. Did it play? Did it play? I don't know. Thank you. Specifically, Reese claims that, among other things, the company replaced milk chocolate with compound coatings. Well, I don't know what he's complaining about. We all know the song from Willy Wonka. Come with me and you'll be in a world of compound coatings. In response, Hershey admitted to some recipe changes, but said those were necessary to meet customer demand for innovation. What demand for innovation? Reese's couldn't possibly innovate more. Already they've already churned out mini cups and thin cups, big cups and eggs, pumpkins, trees, sticks, clusters, globs, blobs, and body wash. Admittedly, some of these are not real

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yet.

[Stephen Colbert]

We got a great show for you tonight

[Melissa McCarthy]

coming up.

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[Melissa McCarthy]

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[Stephen Colbert]

Ladies and gentleme, folks, my first guest is an Emmy award winning actress, you know from Bridesmaids, Mike and Molly and the Little Mermaid. Please welcome back to the Late Show, Melissa McCarthy. Madame.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

You look love straight from here to the Met Ball, I assume. You look so glamorous. Sparkles and everything.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

So few people take this seriously enough to dress up for the children.

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You know what?

[Melissa McCarthy]

I take you very seriously.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's bad news.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Is that my mistake? That's where I went wrong right from the get go.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's lovely to have you on for any reason and even better to have you on for no reason because this card always says up here what the project is. And tonight, the rare two words, it just says no plug.

[Melissa McCarthy]

We're just referring to my hair work.

[Stephen Colbert]

But I love it. Thank you so much.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I am here, I mean, I'm here to say thank you to you. You've brought so much joy. You make us laugh. You lead with kindness. And I know, but it is, it's true. It's like we need it. We need somebody who just like aggressively loves and makes people laugh and stays on point with the truth and does it all in this beautiful human. It's pretty damn good.

[Stephen Colbert]

Thank you. That's so lovely.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I mean it. I mean it's.

[Stephen Colbert]

Can I hug you?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Can I hug you?

[Stephen Colbert]

Can I hug you there?

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Yes.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I want as many hugs as I can get. Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

You're the best.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Thank you.

[Stephen Colbert]

Now listen, how are you doing? I understand you had an accident recently and you fractured something.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I did fracture something. My dad, who's wonderful, very feisty, moves quickly. He fell and hurt himself a little bit but didn't go to the doctor, which I'm like, that's what you want to do in 86. And then all of a sudden, seven days later, he's like, does this seem okay to you? And I was like. I was like, you're clearly broken finger. Clearly broken finger. And he's like, yeah. And so I was talking with my cousin, and I was lovingly giving my dad a hard time, because I'm like, he's always got to go 100 miles an hour. He's got to do this. He's got to do. So I'm doing it. I slammed my hand into the base of the table I was sitting at and fractured my finger.

[Stephen Colbert]

Imitating your dad.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Imitating Giving him a rough time. And then Ben. I told Ben, and I was like, I think I really heard it. Like, I think I honestly. I think I honestly heard it. I've never done that thing where you're like, I bet you have to pull out because something's like. I was like, I think I broke it. And then Ben just goes, yeah, I know, because 20 years ago, I married Mike McCarthy. And he goes, you seem to think you're in mocking him. You're just acting like yourself. And I was like, so I fractured my finger, and then my dad had to have surgery. He had. I mean, I want to point out.

[Stephen Colbert]

Did you get to pick your color?

[Melissa McCarthy]

I did pick the color.

[Stephen Colbert]

You got to pick the color.

[Melissa McCarthy]

He had to go in for hand surgery. And this lovely Dr. Chen, I was like, I'm not trying to get free medical advice, but I think I have jacked up my finger. And then he took an X ray, and he's like, yeah, you fractured it. Good job.

[Stephen Colbert]

You piggybacked on your dad's surgery.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Why is that?

[Stephen Colbert]

So that's a penny pincher is what that is.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Those are good Midwestern roots. I'm like, the doctor's here.

[Stephen Colbert]

Anyway, I want to point out that it's both of your middle fingers. Yep.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Which became a weird McCarthy Falcone tradition during COVID at one point. Cause we don't, like. No matter how much I swear in movies, we don't swear at the house. I don't flip off my children. And then a friend of ours, Sammy, would like. You know, it was not the happiest of times. She would just go out into the yard or stand somewhere really far away. And I can't do it on camera, but I'll use this finger. She would wait it out. Like, she'd wait 10 minutes for one of the girls to look outside, and she's like, in the bushes. And then it caught like wildfire. So we Would do it and stand outside and try to be like, oh, is that a bird out the window? And you tried it, like, on the second floor. Then somebody's standing in the front yard. And then my dad started doing it, which I've never seen my dad flip anybody off. And my mom wouldn't do it. My mom would just go, I'll give you lots of fingers. Sandy's not gonna flip you off. But. So the irony. I just got back from Chicago, and as I rounded the corner, I was hanging out of the window waving at them. And I did that to my dad, and he did it right back.

[Stephen Colbert]

How's the rest of the family? How bad the girls?

[Melissa McCarthy]

That is good. The girls are good.

[Stephen Colbert]

You have a. You have one going to college? Just went to college.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I have one in college. A. She was a freshman.

[Stephen Colbert]

That's tough. What was that like to see one of the baby birds go away?

[Melissa McCarthy]

It feels crazy.

[Stephen Colbert]

Are you ready to be an empty nester? Because it's important. It's really important. And I rediscovered this and I hope Evie has discovered this because we're true empty nesters now. Because all three kids are out.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Three of them are out.

[Stephen Colbert]

Is that. She's fantastic company, and I hope I am for her. What's Ben like to live with? Is that okay?

[Melissa McCarthy]

He's the greatest. He makes me belly laugh ten times a day. He's super weird in a compelling weird.

[Stephen Colbert]

What's it like an average afternoon?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Well, there's something where he says, it's me, but it's him. It's him. He moves like a cat. He's absolutely silent. He's silent in a way that's like, off putting because it is that thing of, like, ok, there's nobody here. I turn and Ben's there. It's like the scene in Sixth Sense where she leaves the kitchen for a second and all the cabinet doors are open. It's terrifying. And I keep telling him I'm gonna put a bell on him because it really it's.

[Stephen Colbert]

Or buy him a pair of clogs.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Just bending a clog. He's always like, I can't wear things where I have to grip.

[Stephen Colbert]

This is the last time you were here, and this is something I'm jealous of. I had the honor of interviewing Hollywood legend Barbra Streisand.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Oh, my gosh.

[Stephen Colbert]

You recorded a song with her.

[Melissa McCarthy]

That seems crazy. How did that happen? Well, I said no at first because I was.

[Stephen Colbert]

You said no?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Well, because I really was. Like, who is this? Like, who is this really? Barbra Streisand.

[Stephen Colbert]

I thought you were getting punked.

[Commercial Narrator]

Yeah.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I was like, this is hilarious. But. Or she's. There's a different Melissa that she wants. And then when it was happening, I was like. I mean, how do you even prepare for that? I felt crazy. What did you sing saying, anything you can do, I can.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, Annie, get your gun.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Yes. But we changed a few lines. And of course, she was like, I've cleared it with. I'm like, okay. Because I was like, I am not singing to Barbra Streisand and saying things that you're actually doing something bad. I was like, we have to soften those lines, or I'm gonna have a line waiting to talk to me.

[Stephen Colbert]

What did it feel like?

[Melissa McCarthy]

It felt crazy. She also kept doing the funny thing. First of all, I met her, and she just was eating lunch meat, which I was like, this. This is unexpected.

[Stephen Colbert]

Where'd you meet her?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Well, first I went to her house.

[Stephen Colbert]

Did you go to the house that's got the basement with, like, the doll store and everything? Did you meet the clone dogs?

[Melissa McCarthy]

There were dogs there.

[Stephen Colbert]

I didn't know two of us were dogs.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Two of them were clones. She's lovely. That I thought. I just thought. And I would have loved it. I thought she was going to walk in with a caftan and, like, a peacock or just something. Something. So. Because she's Barbra Streisand, she's funny. She's so funny. I mean, she's lovely. She's warm. But she did kept going. You're on the note. Stay on the note. She's like, when you get on the note. She's kept doing this with her beautiful hands. She's like, when you get on the note, stay on the note. And I was like, barbara, if I could do that or knew what you were talking about, I said, it's like Michael Jordan being like, all you have to do is take the ball, put it in the note. It's not that hard. And so she kept doing that, and I just was like, you can. You can do this all day long. We'll just roll them bones and see what happens. But she was delightful.

[Stephen Colbert]

I had the great honor. I was asked. She asked me if I would do the audiobook for her book. My name is Barbara. Would you like to hear what part I read?

[Melissa McCarthy]

Yes.

[Stephen Colbert]

My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand. Read to you by the author. Immortality.

[Melissa McCarthy]

That's fantastic.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Yeah.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Like, of everyone in the world.

[Stephen Colbert]

Yeah. I got Peyton, everything.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Oh, my God.

[Stephen Colbert]

I would have done it for free.

[Melissa McCarthy]

Oh my God. So would I. Yeah. Oh my God.

[Stephen Colbert]

It's so lovely to have you here.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I mean, it's lovely to be here.

[Stephen Colbert]

Exactly. I'm so glad we've had this time together. It's been so lovely to have you here.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Thank you.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I wish we both had sweaters on.

[Guest or Correspondent]

Yeah.

[Melissa McCarthy]

You're a modern day mister.

[Stephen Colbert]

Oh, you're. Well, that's very kind. Thank you very much. Please come again. I won't be here, but this is a lovely, lovely place.

[Melissa McCarthy]

I'll find you.

[Stephen Colbert]

Melissa McCarthy, everybody. 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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