\n<\/aside>\nComedy legend Billy Crystal came out to ask the first question: \u201cWhat is the best sandwich?\u201d<\/p>\n
Colbert\u2019s answer was two-fold, insisting that in the summer, it\u2019s a, \u201ctomato sandwich on very thin white bread,\u201d though that was not the case the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe rest of the year, wherever you are, hot pastrami on rye with a little bit of mustard, and if the guy behind the counter is willing, little coleslaw. And if it\u2019s not kosher deli, I\u2019ll take a little muenster on there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWeird\u201d Al Yankovic was up next, asking what Colbert\u2019s first concert was. It was Chuck Mangione, during his Children of the Sanchez tour.<\/p>\n\u201cWeird\u201d Al Yankovic was up next, asking what Colbert\u2019s first concert was. It was Chuck Mangione, during his Children of the Sanchez tour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJosh Brolin \u2013 who Colbert revealed is listed as \u201cWolf Boy\u201d in his phone \u2013 then asked the host what the scariest animal was.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scariest animal to me is a trap door spider. Little sand, nothing wrong. They come out, and they pull you back in. Here\u2019s the part that\u2019s even scarier than that, Josh Brolin. A scientist named a trapdoor spider after me.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spider discovered on the coast of California in 2007 was named Aptostichus stephencolberti<\/em>\u00a0after the comedian in 2008.<\/p>\nBrolin also gave him a ship in a bottle that he got from ebay. It says \u201cMay you always glide through life\u2019s sometimes tumultuous waters.\u201d<\/p>\nJosh Brolin \u2013 who Colbert revealed is listed as \u201cWolf Boy\u201d in his phone \u2013 then asked the host what the scariest animal was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMartha Stewart was next, asking the simple question: Apples or Oranges?<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, you can\u2019t put peanut butter on an orange, so I\u2019m gonna risk the wrath of the seraphim and say apple,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n
Mark Hamil was next and asked if he had ever asked someone else for an autograph, and Colbert said he did, asking Steve Martin to sign something for him after a show they did.<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most profound answer of the night came when comedian Jim Gaffigan asked, \u201cWhat do you think happens when we die?\u201d<\/p>\nMartha Stewart was next, asking the simple question: Apples or Oranges?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMark Hamil was next and asked if he had ever asked someone else for an autograph, and Colbert said he did, asking Steve Martin to sign something for him after a show they did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI think of it\u2019s more like a feeling, I think there is some continuance of some kind, but it\u2019s like a dispersion of ones self into some other greater being, and I don\u2019t have any of feelings beyond that,\u201d Colbert said.<\/p>\n
Gaffigan then remarked, \u201cWhat you\u2019re saying is we become Febreze.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colbert also told Jeff Daniels that his favorite action movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em>, and he revealed to Tiffany Haddish that he prefers aisle seats over window seats on planes because he has, \u201cthe bladder of a baby chipmunk.\u201d<\/p>\nHis wife Evie came out to ask his favorite smell, which he revealed was a \u201ckai rose scented lotion\u201d she wears when she\u2019s getting ready to go out, adding, \u201cI know when I smell that you\u2019re in there wearing very little.\u201d<\/p>\nPerhaps the most profound answer of the night came when comedian Jim Gaffigan asked, \u201cWhat do you think happens when we die?\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHis \u201cStrangers With Candy\u201d co-star Amy Sedaris asked what his least favorite smell was, and he revealed it was a scent he discovered at a neighbor\u2019s house as a boy: a jar of grease that leaked into a bag of sugar, a scent he couldn\u2019t describe, though he had, \u201cnever smelled anything that bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Stiller asked what his earliest memory was, which was a memory of his mother painting in his room when he was possibly three of four years old and he couldn\u2019t speak yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember what I was trying to tell her, and I was trying to tell her about the dream I had the night before,\u201d about an albino alligator at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.<\/p>\n
Aubrey Plaza asked simply, \u201cCats or Dogs,\u201d two which Colbert replied, \u201cI have lived with both of them,\u201d before adding after a long pause, \u201cDogs.\u201d<\/p>\nHis \u201cStrangers With Candy\u201d co-star Amy Sedaris asked what his least favorite smell was, and he revealed it was a scent he discovered at a neighbor\u2019s house as a boy: a jar of grease that leaked into a bag of sugar, a scent he couldn\u2019t describe, though he had, \u201cnever smelled anything that bad.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRobert De Niro asked the now-infamous question \u201cWhat number are you thinking of?\u201d which Colbert revealed the true answer to: three.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeryl Streep and Ethan Hawke guessed correctly. Three. That\u2019s the number I was thinking of,\u201d though De Niro added he though it would be 2.5 million, the number of Epstein Files trump hasn\u2019t released.<\/p>\n
Dickerson asks the last one \u2013 \u201cHow would you describe the rest of your life in five words?\u201d <\/p>\n
Colbert thoughtfully responded, \u201cMy family, my friends, fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colbert\u2019s run on \u201cThe Late Show\u201d ends Thursday night on CBS with an extended episode full of yet-to-be-announced guests.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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