Stephen Colbert: How “Breaking” on Stage Unlocked His Comedic Powers (2022)
The Great Creators with Guy Raz
The Immature Choices of Paul
The actor says he plays an adult who is behaving in a childish way. "I'm trying to serve, we're trying to make bad moral choices at all points," he says of the Colbert Report character. He asks: What if I just gave into that natural human fear of anything that's not me? That ends up being an indictment of the idea of why is that kind of perceived as American neutral?"
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