Jon Stewart Takes the ‘Colbert Questionert’ on ‘The Late Show’ – The Hollywood Reporter
On Monday’s episode of The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart participated within the present’s beloved phase known as “The Colbert Questionert” the place he severely contemplated the perfect sandwich, the scariest animal, his favourite motion film, and answered extra deeply private questions.
In honor of Stewart’s new Apple TV+ present, The Drawback with Jon Stewart, premiering this week, host Colbert defined he needed to do a “deep dive” on his good friend earlier than he returns to tv. Stewart, who initially known as himself an “open e book,” when the phase started, hilariously struggled to reply every of the easy questions.
When Colbert first requested what’s the finest sandwich, Stewart replied, “You possibly can’t reply that query by way of a selected sandwich… The most effective sandwich is one which understands the bread-to-ingredient ratio.” He continued, “Whether or not or not it’s a po’ boy, a hoagie, a Kaiser, or one thing on muffuletta, it doesn’t matter. What issues is the ratio of ingredient to bread and the addition of your liquidity.”
Colbert advised a pickle as a condiment possibility which earned one other tangent from Stewart: “A pickle is a daring addition,” he stated. “What’s good in regards to the pickle is you’re getting a taste addition, but additionally a textual jolt, if you’ll, that breaks in. What occurs is your mouth comes by means of the bread, typically recent, considerably tender. In your thoughts you’re like, ‘Oh I’ve acquired this.’ however you then hit that motherfucking pickle. It’s, ‘Good day, I would like in.’ And also you’ve acquired to essentially work, and once you get by means of, it bursts and also you simply — so what was the query?”
After selecting the suitable bread-to-ingredient ratio being 65-75 %, Stewart and Colbert had one other debate when The Late Present host requested Stewart to call the scariest animal. Stewart initially argued that it needed to be a land animal as a result of fish should not thought-about animals: “So, right here’s the issue with a shark and right here’s the issue with fish generally. It’s the medium wherein they journey as a result of all the pieces is horrifying when you don’t have any visibility.”
He then joked, “You already know what I simply realized? I’m only a loopy previous man off the road.”
Stewart lastly determined {that a} cat is the scariest animal as a result of it’s “a killing machine.” “It’s going to homicide everywhere in the neighborhood,” he defined. “And it’ll carry it to you and put it in your mattress as if to say, ‘You higher preserve fucking feeding me or I’ll rip you to shreds.’”
The previous Every day Present host additionally revealed his favourite motion film is Discovering Nemo, he prefers apples to oranges, and his least favourite scent comes from objects discovered on New Jersey seashores.
Take a look at the two-part interview under to listen to extra of Stewart’s considerate solutions.
