baby octopuses survived and so has terri. usually the mom dies after laying her eggs. the babies are destined for educational institutions. as for cal, he's so into octopuses he even dressed up like one for halloween. no wonder he was overwhelmed when they gave him his first tank. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: tanks a lot, dad and mom. >> that is so cute. i love seance too. thanks for watching, the late >> president trump last week unveiled what he calls the god bless the usa bible. >> i am proud to be partnering with my very good friend lee greenwood, who doesn't love his song "god bless the usa."

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>> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight... easter dummy! and matt damon takes the colbert! plus, stephen welcomes hannah waddingham! featuring louis cato and "the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> stephen: thank you. welcome one and all to "the late show." i am your host stephen colbert. i hope that everyone out there -- i hope everybody over here, everybody out there had a good easter weekend, church, ham, jelly beans. len was basically low-key, all he did was moderate a record-breaking fund-raiser with bill clinton, barack obama, and joe biden. [cheers and applause] no biggie... it was the most presidential power in one place since those four guys posed for mount rushmore. it was an honor to be part of the evening. we had a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion of the challenges facing our nation,

but one big question went unanswered. why weren't any of them wearing ties? [laughter] i was! i was wearing a tie! i believe that means i'm president now. [cheers and applause] wow. wow. thank you. thank you. the job really does age you. the evening was a huge success. biden a precious campaign says the event raised more than $26 million. and i would say what's even more impressive is they did it without selling one bible. a lot of people have asked me what it was like to moderate the evening and let me tell you, there were three presidents, three communications teams, and zero catering. i asked one of the folks from the democratic party for a diet coke and after a long delay they gave me a diet pepsi.

so, i'm voting for trump now. i know. i know, death of democracy. but i have my limits. i asked president obama why i'm allowed to call his wife michelle but i can't call him barack. he said, and i quote, "your wife can." [laughter and applause] a lot of people enjoyed that joke... for instance, my wife. yesterday was easter, as i was saying, and joe biden had a lovely message for the nation posting "jill and i send our warmest wishes to questions around the world soul bring easter sunday. easter reminds us of the power of hope and the promise of the resurrection." donald trump also had a beautiful easter message. april fools! almost couldn't get that one out. he posted this.

"happy easter to all including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges that are doing everything possible to interfere with the presidential election of 2024, including those many people that i completely and totally despise." [cheers and applause] and also with you. [laughter] and with your spirit i guess is what you say now. the annual white house easter egg roll was else today, a big one, 40,000 participants. 40,000! or is the hand that laid those exported, an entire generation lost, and for what? but as with everything in our politics, they found something to be fake outrged about. in this case, fox news claimed

religious themed designs were banned from the house easter egg contest because of guidelines specifying that the submission must not include any questionable content, bridges samuels ohmic symbols or overtly religious themes. how dare they dishonor the spirit of easter when he laid eggs for his apostles to find. but this is a thing, this same guideline has been in place under every president since 1976 including under donald trump. oh, my god, those poor guidelines, they had to be in the worst place in the world... under donald trump! but in the world of made-up outrage there is always plan b. over the weekend trump also attacked biden over the fact that easter this year coincided with transgender day of visibility. so what? and biden had nothing to do with that, since 2009 international transgender day of visibility has been held annually on ma march 31st. the date of easter, meanwhile, changes from year to year.

of course everyone knows the formula for setting the date of easter... see? i got some bad news for people who are upset that another thing was celebrated on easter this year because it's going to keep happening. in 2029, easter is going to fall on april fools' day! so my religion is a big joke to you, is that what it is? are you claiming that t4 didn't actually rise from the dead, it was all the big prank on the apostles? you got t4ed! [laughter and applause] and smoke them if you got them because just next year easter falls on 4/20. [cheers and applause] there you go! the liberals want to turn jesus into some long-haired sandal

wearing hippie who is all about peace and love. groovy, man, forgive your enemies! all of these messages that he posted were up on truth social and there's some financial news about his lack of finances. according to sec filings from truth social, and 2023, on revenues of just $4 million, truth social lost $58 million. [cheers and applause] how could that be? they have such a solid business model, old rapist yells at easter. this is april 1st, officially april which means it's time for march madness. and if you are anything like me, your bracket is completely busted and you also have only a vague idea of what it means to bust a bracket. is that a sex thing? because it sounds like a sex thing.

as of tonight both the men's and women's tournaments are down to the final four but the most surprising thing to happen on the court this week and was the court, because five women's games were played with different length three-point arcs on either side of the court. put that up, jim. look at that! you can see the difference. that is a glaring error. it is the most obvious mistake in sports is the excellently played the '86 world series with a live chicken! [laughter] speaking of strange things happening, there is some news out of florida, care of governor and cavemen describing his dream rock ron desantis. late last week he signed a bill that will allow the sale of bottles and one in florida up to 15 leaders. 15 leaders is almost 4 gallons! we have breaking news, rudy giuliani has moved to florida! [laughter and applause]

gone already? this is a big change. until now florida law prohibited the sale of wine and bottles larger than 1 gallon. of course there's a legal exception for bachelorette parties because there's no laws on a gator mike's fan boat. half off if the bride kisses gator mike. the man behind this new law is florida representative and guy who buys his formalwear at spirit halloween chip. his motivation for introducing a bill was to cut government regulation and he says this legislation has been a priority for me for the past five years. translation: five years ago i got divorced. [laughter] there is some news from washington and also the air above washington. journalists have been told to stop stealing souvenirs from air force one. no surprise to me, those journalists are sticky fingered

bunch. whenever wolf blitzer comes to my house, on his way out the door, full cavity search, see you at the christmas party, wolf. after biden went to the west coast in february, the crew found several items missing from the press section including branded pillowcases, glasses, and gold rimmed plates. so the white house press correspondence association sent an email to reporters explaining that the thefts reflected poorly on the press pool and must top. it sure does, you forget the linens, go for the silverware! that's where the real money is, or just take the door, it's a boeing, it's not bolted on! [laughter and applause] i feel for the press here. i myself have helped myself to a little five finger discount before. in fact, i swiped bill o'reilly's microwave, former senator jeff flake's rug from his office and a glass from the home of barbra streisand. but that is all in the past when

i met with the three presidents on thursday, i did not steal a single thing. i stole three things. [cheers and applause] we've got a great show for your tonight, i will be talking to hannah waddingham and giving the cold air questionert to matt damon! when we come back, "meanwhile." ♪ ♪ >> "the late show" with stephen colbert sponsored by simparica trio. for real protection, go with simparica trio. and he's in it to win it! simparica trio is the first chew with triple protection. whoa fleas! and ticks! (♪♪) intestinal worms! whoa! heartworm disease! no problem with simparica trio! this drug class has been associated with

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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: give it up for louis cato and "the late show" band! hello, my friends, wonderful to see all of you! you are a life raft for the soul, my friends. we make some jokes, we make some jokes on the show about things that happened in the news and i kind of like to insert myself in there, i made a joke about stealing the president's ties thursday night over at radio i didn't actually steal their ties, i did criticize them for not wearing ties in person and obama give me a brush back on

that, he said joe said no ties, we can't do it the president doesn't do. so kind of like i was wrong for wearing a tie. but i do sometimes do the wrong thing and i will be the first to admit it, because i do have stolen items from the white house. >> stephen! >> stephen: this is 100% true. in december of 2022, my darling wife and i went to the french state dinner where emmanuel macron was there and i was sitting -- she was across the table and they had these -- they have these things there. these are the little place -- the place name holders. it's a little eagle. at the eagle if you can see that you put a card in the middle of it so it says like to stephen colbert, evelyn mcgee colbert, whatever, and i thought boy, i'd really love to steal

that. [laughter] you know? [applause] i'm not sure whether i said steel -- i said that would be cool to have. that would be cool to have and she's like we can't take that, we can't -- we can't do that, and then i said i guess we can't and janet yellen sitting next to me goes oh, take it. >> no way! >> stephen: so she takes this, puts it in her pocket book and now have it. there it is right there. and i feel bad. i feel bad so we will be returning a little gold plated brass name holder to the white house. i don't want to be a wrong side of the law. hopefully we will not get in trouble for it but if we do get in trouble for doing it i just want to remind everybody that i wasnot the one who actually stole it. [laughter and applause]

and just as importantly... [laughter and applause] just wanted you to know. okay. folks, if you watch the show you know i spend most of my time right over there using the day's biggest news to build a topical and join story frame adding wax finished full and line cowhide and eloquently headboard to give you the spectacular oliver goldsmith king size bed that is my monologue but sometimes, just sometimes, after escaping the breakup of panama re panamanian shipwright stitched together with fishing line a discarded shiv and hide it before collapse onto the stowaway's wonky bunk of news that is my segment... >> "meanwhile." [cheers and applause]

soothing. meanwhile. nascar, the sport everyone's dad thinks they would be good at. there was a major trauma at we driver was so mad at the driver he felt was responsible that he ripped off his own dangling bumper and hurled it at him as he drove past. yeah, man! nascar would be so much more interesting if you added road rage! here we go, denny hamlin coming on the front stress, there is tied gibbs going for the same parking spot. smashes gives, a six iron but gives is dumping his coffee on the sunroof, it will be a photo finish because they are exchanging insurance! [cheers and applause] the best part of the whole incident is that on the reverse angle you can see that the

bumper joey tore off his own car to throat the competitor is a public service announcement against crime! meanwhile, south koreans are now dealing with burnout and loneliness by getting pet rocks. that headline again. sadness gets fatter after saddest thing ever sadded. meanwhile, broccoli freckles are the new beauty hack we never saw coming. this is where bronzer's and eyeshadows are applied locked stomach broccoli florettes and then stamped to the face, which leads tiny dots that resemble goals. it is amazing what we will do with vegetables to avoid eating them. look at all this asparagus! ellis, look at all this asparagus, maybe we should build a raft! meanwhile, recently, colombian police seized 1.7 tons of cocaine hidden within a shipment of avocados. best...

guac... ever. [cheers and applause] not ripe, clearly not ripe. meanwhile, last week waiters in paris competed in a race to get a coffee and croissant across the capital that allows the waiters to race a 2-kilometer route while carrying a tray. of course the biggest challenge for the waiters was to finish the race without going on strike. [laughter] meanwhile... good news, christians. other than the god news. your tv is about to get a little holier because martin scorsese will spearhead a documentary series on christian saints. finally, we get to see john the baptist shoot a pimp! [laughter] it's dark.

meanwhile, in florida, and alligator found living behind a former coca-cola plant has been put on a diet to lose some of its over 400 pounds, which it gained in part because locals had been feeling stomach feeding it lunch meat and hams. and we have a winner for this week's most florida. congratulations! [cheers and applause] congratulations, you win bootleg fireworks and a calvin peeing face tattoo. they said all our alligators get a mix of pellet diet can with the feed fish, we also for chicken, we will do that on a regular basis and hopefully he will slim down. you are putting in of z ozempic. we will be right back with matt damon! nds. double denim is back. so chic. ♪♪

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>> fantastic. >> stephen: for those who don't know, the colbert questionert, there are 1 questions that have been calibrated to penetrate straight to the soul of a person and open them up for the world so they are fully known. are you prepared to be fully known? >> i am prepared to be fully known. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: here we go, here is the first question of the colbert questionert for matt damon. matt damon, what is the best sandwich? >> there's a sandwich at this place called bay city's deli in l.a. that made a sandwich -- makes a sandwich called the godmother. >> stephen: what was your first concert that you went to? >> so that would be, my mom i think took my brother and me to see holly near -- this is very kind of hippie stuff. you know, we would sing -- the audience would sing along like ♪ we are in antinuclear people ♪ ♪ and we are singing, singing, singing for our lives ♪

>> stephen: rock 'n' roll. >> yeah! it was very -- >> stephen: how old were you? >> i was probably seven. >> stephen: that's lovely. what is the scariest animal? >> i went shark diving with 15 years ago in south africa. >> stephen: the big ones. >> a great white shark is something i would never want to see unless i am in a cage. they are just so much bigger than we think. >> stephen: are you over awed by the beauty of them were just like get me out of this cage met >> completely in off how beautiful they are but completely aware of how ridiculously lethal they are and they are perfectly camouflaged in that water. you know, like a 5-meter shark will just be next to you before you even see it. it does help you realize that you don't have a chance if you -- you know, see them breach, the power with which

they -- there are death mac machines. >> stephen: you've convinced me. [laughter] apples or oranges? >> apples. [laughter] can you imagine if i had said oranges? >> stephen: have you ever asked somebody for their autograph? >> yes, when i was a kid marvelous marvin hagler came to our local arcade and i got autographs my brother and for me. >> stephen: do you still have it? >> i don't think so, that was 1980, 81. >> stephen: what do you think happens when we die? >> i think we go home. >> stephen: okay. [applause] tough one. favorite action movie. >> that is a tough one. because there are some great ones. but i think a movie that i

actually -- i recently made into the academy they actually voted for it for best picture was "the matrix." [applause] >> stephen: 100%. window or aisle? >> window. >> stephen: just love the view. don't have to worry about getting up to go to the bathroom and upsetting the person. >> it's usually my wife next to me, that horrible thing where you are like sorry -- i just got to -- >> stephen: exactly. favorite smell? >> like coffee mixed with bacon in the morning. >> stephen: like literally coffee mixed with bacon? >> both things are happening. it usually means we are on vacation, i don't usually eat breakfast so if i'm sleeping in late enough that some but he is already up making coffee and bacon than i know it is like a holiday or something. >> stephen: fantastic. at least favorite smell. >> i worked in at the time the second largest dump on planet

earth which was at the time in mexico and was shot -- we were therefore a little over a week and i smelled things there that i did not -- it was not just -- >> stephen: poo river. >> yes. there was actually location called that. >> stephen: the first time i ever interviewed you we were stuck underneath the vending machine. >> it is still one of my favorite bits of all time. you bleeding out while having -- >> stephen: look it up, comedy central.com. all right. earliest memory. >> i remember my crib. i remember my crib -- here's a crazy thing, maybe you can cut this out for time if you want but this is kind of an amazing thing that happened to me after my father passed away in 2017, within that year i had this crazy -- this dream, he came to me in a dream and he embraced me

and the feeling that i got was the feeling that i had, which i think is like my first memory which was the feeling of what it felt like to be held by him. and it was a feeling of such overwhelming protection and love, it was preverbal, so i couldn't even -- i can't even explain what it felt like. all i knew was that he was there and that i was feeling that embrace, and it reminded me that i must've felt that is one of the very first things i was aware of is my kind of consciousness came on. >> stephen: that's beautiful. [applause] cats or dogs? >> i have both. >> stephen: if you had to pick back >> i mean... i've got four dogs and one cat. can i tell you a quick story about the cat? >> stephen: it doesn't even have to be quick.

the cameras turned off a long time ago. [laughter] >> i don't blame you. but this cat -- we adopted this cat in costa rica about ten years ago. he was living by himself in the jungle, he was the coolest cat you've ever seen -- he was hunting, he had two giant holes in his side, he was fighting for his life every night we are staying at this airbnb and we start feeding the cat we were therefore a month, so by the end we had to take the cat. like this guy is going to die, now he's relying on us. he moves into our house, i had a little yard in l.a., like it will be great out there. he never went outside ever again. cut to the cat ends up with a brain tumor. no, it's okay. we taken to the dash you know, we get him radiation, it's the toughest jungle cat, i'm not in a let a brain tumor take this cat out. eventually we moved to new york in the cat has lost a lot of weight and he's only walking in

left circles and i take into the animal hospital here and i meet cat neurologist. this is true, the dude's name is chad. and chad goes look, at a certain point you have to have this conversation wit your children because being part of a pet -- part of doing that is, you know, giving them their dignity in this cat doesn't really have a quality of life anymore and i said i agree. i'm going to have a conversation, i'm going to bring him back in three weeks and if is not better -- and chad said i could load him up on steroids. and i go what do you mean, and he goes i mean, i could give him like a bunch of steroids. [laughter] and i go are there long-term issues with that and he goes yeah! massive long-term issues with that mike but we can just see what happens. that was two and a half years ago. >> stephen: now he's jacked! >> now he's jacked and i joke

that he is like arnold schwarzenegger. he's got muscles on muscles, you know what i mean? he looks great, he looks great. so that was my cat story. >> stephen: that's lovely. >> still with us. [applause] >> stephen: you only get one song to listen to for the rest of your life. you don't have to always listen to it but when you go to listen to music, this is the song. what is it? >> i would probably say "imagine" by john lennon. [applause] >> stephen: what number am i thinking of? >> nine! >> stephen: no. >> thing. >> stephen: described the rest of your life in five words. >> family, friends, work, service, joy. >> stephen: matt damon! congratulations, you are fully known! "kiss the future" is in theaters now and on paramount+ later this year. matt damon, everybody, we will be right back.

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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is an emmy-winning actor you know from "ted lasso" and "game of thrones." now she stars in "the fall guy."

>> he's missing. he has fallen in with shady people. >> call the cops. >> can't call the cops. >> my not? >> the studio will know that i am way over budget! they will pull the plug on this. you know that. he's going to find him. >> why me? >> you are a stuntman, for god's sake, no one is going to notice whether you are here or not, no offense. geico some taking. >> you know him intimately, it can be so simple. you pick them up, you dust him often you bring him back here. save the movie and maybe you for the love of your life back. you good? >> stephen: please welcome hannah waddingham! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> thank you! >> stephen: lovely to see you! >> i love that! i love that! all from the seated position, i love it! >> stephen: i love a guest who comes on and feels very comfortable in a broadway stage like this. >> you nearly lost me just then because i'm used to doing that, i got caught up. >> stephen: i might drift a bit. >> is that too much? [cheers and applause] >> stephen: everybody knows and loves you as rebecca from "ted lasso," but you are -- [cheers and applause] but you have a long and successful career both on broadway and the west end. if i'm not wrong, you got your big break on the west and for doing an american accent or by doing an american accent? what is the story? >> i was doing a show, i think you guys had it here, it was

called tony and tina's wedding back in the day. so when it came to london, it was just in the stage newspaper just like [bleep] -- >> stephen: one thing about west end and broadway here is you can't say [bleep]. >> oh, right. [laughs] you know, i am earthy. this ad said overgrown bobby bae doll built like a brick [bleep] house, and i thought if i don't get this -- i would be a shoe in. i turned up at the addition and the shows you the courage and the tenacity of youth. there were like four or five floors of like blondes, all the way up to this top floor and i thought i'm not doing this. so i pushed past and i was going "excuse me, excuse me, i've got an appointment, i'm so sorry, going to miss my train" and i was going up, up, did the audition, did the song and the director said i'm not really meant to do this but i wonder if

you could -- what part of the state so you're from and i said i'm from south london. and he said i like it, you've got the job. [laughs] [applause] >> stephen: i know you are brilliant singer, a beautiful voice. did you ever work with stephen sondheim? >> i not only worked with him, it to moments with him that i will never ever forget the which are now so special. i did a little night music for him and it was so unbelievable -- i believe you are a fan, aren't you? >> stephen: i am. >> i never got to do that. i was doing "send in the clowns." in the stage is so tiny and people's feet are like at the end of your feet, which is beautiful in a way and also a nightmare when stephen sondheim himself is sitting three rows back and you can hear him sobbing while you are singing and afterwards he went "i'm so sorry, my dear, i added my own

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only at the home depot. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: we are back with the star of the new movie "the fall guy," hannah waddingham! you're starting in "the fall guy," which is such a funny movie with ryan gosling. the movie is about stuntman, so the obvious question is, do you do your own stunts? >> well, i wasn't -- i wasn't meant to be, but it was lovely because they kept kind of extending and broadening my part -- i mean, i can't really talk about it much... >> stephen: can't give anything away. >> because of the nature of the things. [laughter] >> stephen: i've seen the movie and i have no [bleep] clue what you're talking about. >> you just said [bleep]! >> stephen: i know, we will edit it out. >> the way they had it, they lost kind of 15, 20 minutes of

the movie. we do a thing and there's him and him and me -- >> stephen: right, the people. >> the people. and i was complaining that, you know, just because i'm a girl doesn't mean i can't get involved with the shizzle. so i was like i would like to punch him please. i would like to punch him aloft where we are and said it will all make sense when you see it! so i really smacked it to him and i've got plenty -- see all these scars here? look at my wounds! >> stephen: that's from -- >> "the fall guy" scars! so that's my badge of honor. yep. >> stephen: did you regret it? >> they gave me a calf. >> stephen: i would get some detachable foams if i were you. you were in "game of thrones" -- >> my god, there weren't stunts but it gave me something i

wasn't expecting from it and that is chronic claustrophobia because i had ten hours -- i've talked about it since with david benioff and dan, the two executive producers, and i said good job is for them because it was horrific. ten hours of being actually waterboarded. lick actually. because it is such a -- the reason why i don't believe it's touched yet in terms of the cinematography of it for a series, it's just a different level. >> stephen: they really did those. >> with that comes actual waterboarding, so i'm strapped to a table with all these leather straps and i couldn't lift up my head because i said that's going to be too obvious that it loose. i was like right -- i would quite like it to be loose. so i'm on my way back and i'm in this fancy pants lift and i had purple -- my hair is already bleached to death, i had grape juice all in my hair with purple, couldn't speak because the mountain had his hand over

my mouth while i was screaming and i had strap marks everywhere like i'd been attacked and the doors open, one of the other guys who had been shooting something else was just like what has happened to you and i told him everything and he said you are lucky, i've just been crawling through [bleep] on my elbows for four days. it kind of doesn't matter when you are in it because you just want to give the best -- i just said [bleep] again. i feel like that -- that five? five? i'm realizing -- [cheers and applause] >> stephen: when you go on graham norton -- >> i'm a little bit of a potty mouth. >> stephen: you go on graham norton can you drop the bomb over there? >> i mean, yes. yeah. but the worst thing is my 9-year-old daughter is in the wings, that's a good example, isn't it? >> stephen: that is. hello! there she is! your mom keeps saying [bleep]! >> [laughs]

and i just point something out, i'm just very, very expressive. that's what i tell her. i come from the theater and we are all chronic potty mouth. >> stephen: your parents were -- >> my mom and -- they were both opera singers in the isle of man so there's a family thing. >> stephen: is there a lot of opera there? >> just from my family, maybe. >> stephen: singing to the sheep. >> yeah, the sheep kind of taught me -- i don't know whether you've been able to see my christmas special, talk about that -- >> stephen: of course. >> i talk about -- thanks. thank you. >> stephen: thank you. >> but i wanted to incorporate her into my christmas special and that's why i did it at the london coliseum because i was there from the age of eight, nine, like my daughter, for 30 years watching all the great opera singers it is in my blood more than anything. it really is. >> stephen: so lovely to see you, thank you so much for being here!

"the fall guy" is in theaters may 3rd. hannah waddingham, everybody. we will be right back! [cheers and applause]

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>> stephen: stick around for "after midnight" with taylor tomlinson, good night!