Comedian Stephen Colbert is serious about food

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

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Summary

If you've followed Stephen Colbert's career closely, you might have picked up on something. It's there back in his days on The Colbert Report, when he issued a throw-down about the proper way to make barbecue sauce and that time on The Late Show, when he took calls on the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line the weekend before Thanksgiving.

Colbert has opinions about food. Like, strong opinions.

And it turns out that's true off-camera, too. Stephen and his wife, Evie McGee Colbert say they basically live in the kitchen.

Now they've written a cookbook: Does This Taste Funny? Recipes Our Family Loves. It's a delightful window into their marriage and the food of the South Carolina Low Country where they both grew up.

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0:00.0	If you followed Stephen Colbert's career closely, you might have picked up on something.
0:05.4	It's there back in his days on the Colbert Report.
0:07.9	It was a proud son of South Carolina, folks.
0:09.8	I rarely have kind words for those barbarians to the north.
0:13.4	I mean, who makes barbecue sauce with vinegar?
0:16.3	That's what you use to clean a toilet.
0:18.2	Or that time on the late show when he took calls on the Butterball Turkey talk line the weekend before Thanksgiving?
0:23.7	This is really a question about stuffing.
0:27.4	Okay, do you call it stuffing or dressing?
0:30.5	I call it stuffing.
0:31.9	Okay, wrong answer.
0:33.0	Bye-bye.
0:34.0	This man has opinions about food, like strong opinions.
0:38.2	Where's my tomato?
0:40.0	There isn't any.
0:41.0	And a BLT without the tea is just a BL.
0:43.5	It's bleh.
0:46.3	And if that abomination meets the standard for a BLT, then what did we fight at Lexington and Concord for?
0:54.8	Just rip the Constitution off the Statue of Liberty and erase the map on the back because the
0:59.5	American experiment has failed. No, you're the one who's overreacting. And it turns out he has
1:06.4	strong opinions about food off camera too. Stephen and his wife Evie McGee-Colbert say they basically live in the kitchen.
1:15.0	And when I talked to them a while back, it did not take long before they were holding
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