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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

‘Open Book with Jenna’ podcast featuring Stephen Colbert

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Hey Sunday Sitdown fans! As a bonus, we’re giving you a special preview of Jenna Bush Hager’s new podcast, ‘Open Book with Jenna’.     In the podcast’s debut episode, Jenna sits down with “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert and his wife of over 30 years, Evie McGee Colbert.     Stephen and Evie recently partnered on a new cookbook, “Does this Taste Funny” and sat down with Jenna to share their favorite family recipes, funniest memories cooking together, and why humor is the key ingredient in their marriage. They also reveal who holds the title of ‘best chef’ and who they’d love to invite to one of their famous dinner parties.     To listen to the full conversation, just search ‘Open Book with Jenna’ wherever you’re listening to follow now, or click here: https://link.chtbl.com/obwj_lw

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0:00.0

Hi everyone it's Jenna Bush-Hager you're about to hear a special preview of my new

0:11.1

podcast open book with Jenna.

0:14.0

Each episode I get to have inspiring conversations with celebrities,

0:17.8

authors, fellow book lovers, and more.

0:20.7

And in the premiere episode, I sit down with the late shows Stephen Colbert and his wife

0:25.6

actress Evie Colbert to talk about their new cookbook, does this taste funny and why

0:31.0

humor is the key ingredient in their marriage. Here's open book with

0:35.7

Jenna. Thank you guys for being here.

0:39.5

Thank you Jennifer having us. Thank you. You have a great book.

0:43.6

Does this taste funny?

0:45.0

I love two things most in the world, well three,

0:48.7

and this does not include my three children,

0:51.2

but laughter and food. How do you feel like the two of those intersect?

0:55.8

Well it's good to laugh in the kitchen.

0:57.8

While you make it just to be ready for anything to go wrong.

1:00.9

I mean because you could burn yourself or you could cut yourself and you just ruin the

1:04.0

meal so yeah I like to start at the bar. I think the bar is my appetizer.

1:08.6

Yeah it's like well because it kind of lessens the pressure, right? Right.

1:12.8

I actually did and I wasn't thinking I was going to talk about this,

1:16.5

but yeah, do you see that some situation?

1:19.5

That's a pretty big.

1:20.6

Have you all ever used a mandolin?

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