Stephen Colbert finally takes the ‘Colbert Questionert’: Here are all his answers

Key Points

• Stephen Colbert’s penultimate episode of The Late Show aired on Wednesday.

• In it, he finally took the “Colbert Questionert.”

• He was asked the questions by a long list of celebrities including Robert De Niro, Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill, and more.

Stephen Colbert is usually the one asking the questions, but that wasn’t the case Wednesday.

On the second-to-last episode of The Late Show, the host finally took “Colbert Questionert,” a segment that he normally administers to celebrity guests in order to truly get to know them.

This time around, however, Colbert was quizzed on his perspective by a long list of surprise celebrity guests that included John Dickerson, Billy Crystal, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Josh Brolin, Martha Stewart, Mark Hamill, Jim Gaffigan, Jeff Daniels, Tiffany Haddish, his wife Evie McGee-Colbert, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Aubrey Plaza, James Taylor, and Robert De Niro.

“I’ve always said that I wouldn’t give my answers to any of those questions until the show was over,” Colbert remarked. “But… this is close enough.”

Find out all of Colbert’s answers below.

Stephen Colbert and Billy Crystal
Credit: CBS

What’s the best sandwich?

Colbert revealed that he operates on a “summer sandwich” and “rest of the year” sandwich basis, selecting a tomato sandwich on very thin white bread with salt and pepper as his summer staple and hot pastrami on rye with mustard for any other time.

What was your first concert?

Colbert attended a Chuck Mangione concert with his mom as part of the Children of Sanchez Tour in 1977.

What is the scariest animal?

The most frightening creature to Colbert is a trapdoor spider, even though he has a species of the bug named after him.

Apples or oranges?

Colbert is Team Apples. Sorry, oranges!

Have you ever asked someone else for their autograph?

Yes! Colbert asked Steve Martin to sign a portrait of himself, which was hung in his Late Show office.

What do you think happens when we die?

Colbert has a feeling that there is “some continuance of some kind” when we die, but that “it’s like a dispersion of the self into some other greater being.”

What is your favorite action movie?

Paging Dr. Jones! Colbert’s favorite action film is Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Window or aisle?

Colbert has the “bladder of a baby chipmunk,” so he’s an aisle guy.

Favorite smell?

His favorite smell is the rose-scented lotion worn by his wife Evie.

Least favorite smell?

The worst scent Colbert has ever caught a whiff of was a jar of used grease that had spilled and mixed with a rancid bag of sugar.

Earliest memory?

Colbert’s earliest memory is a two-parter. He vividly recalls seeing his mom painting a bedroom on a ladder, which they both believe happened when he was around 3 years old. Colbert, however, remembers feeling frustrated at that moment because his toddler self couldn’t tell her about a dream he’d had the night before about a large albino King Kong looming over the city.

“I have an inception in my memory,” he said. “I have another dream in my memory. And that’s my earliest memory is not being able to tell my mom my memory.”

Cats or dogs?

Colbert has lived with both…but is Team Dogs.

You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life: what is it?

It’s Glenn Gould’s version of “Song Without Words in E Major, Op. 19, No. 1.”

What number were you thinking of?

It’s been three this entire time! Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke were the only two ‘Questionert’ takers to get it correct.

Describe the rest of your life in five words?

My family, my friends, fun.

And with that, Colbert is known. Watch Colbert take the ‘Questionert’ in the clips above.

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