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Welcome back everybody. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and James. Children of all ages. Folks. Please have a seat everybody. And now for my final interview, my guest tonight is not just perfect, he is in fact infallible. Please welcome all the way from Vatican City. Stephen. What? I Well Tina, what are you doing? I'm trying to introduce the Pope. Yeah, that's the thing. The Pope won't come out of his dressing room. What? Why not? Well we didn't read his whole rider and evidently we got him the wrong snacks. He's He's pretty mad. What?
He asked for hot dogs. We got him hot dogs. Let me talk Put them up. Your Holiness, please come out. Leo. Leo, please. WE GOT A SHOW. COLBERT. YOU CALL THAT A CHICAGO DOG? POPE DON'T PLAY LIKE THAT. LEO, OUT. OH NO. OH. THE POPE who was definitely my guest tonight has canceled. And did we already send the other stars away? Yeah, I think so. Oh, we already sent the other stars away. This is terrible. Well, who's going to be my last guest now? Hey Steve, WHAT ABOUT ME?
PAUL YES. PAUL, COULD YOU DO ME A FAVOR? WHAT SHOULD I'LL DO THAT. THIS IS THE PERFECT OH, you'd be perfect. Yeah. I think you'd be a perfect last guest. Oh my god, ladies and gentlemen My final guest Oh my Paul Thank you. Please have a seat everybody. This is just Paul, you'd be my perfect last guest. What are you doing here, Paul? Well, I was just in the area. I was doing it some errands. Oh, yeah? And yeah, actually I brought
something for you. You brought something for me? Something for you. What Is this? Yeah. There's a They told me there'd be I thought the Pope was bringing this. I'm sorry about that. What is I honestly have never seen this. Is that here? Excuse me. That's here? Right here. Wow. To Steven, you're better than the Beatles. No. Paul McCartney No, it doesn't It does It says what I read. It doesn't say that. When my editors are done, that's what it's going to say, Paul. Thank you.
That's so lovely. Thank you very much. Then we'll go up and mine. Steven. Anything. Well, thank you very much. Paul, when I you we've you've I've had the honor of interviewing you before and you've you've been back to the Ed Sullivan, but I'm just curious, when you're here Yeah. what Like what's your sense when you close your eyes, do you hear the girls screaming? Yeah. Uh
Okay. Who is it? That was it. I'm just curious. Thank you. How often does that happen to you at this point? Um, often. I want you to know that my brothers and sisters are here cuz last night and two of my sisters, Mary and Margo, were at your concert in Washington, D.C. Do you reme- Do you remember them? Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah. Um, how does it feel to be back? What do you What's the vibe?
It's always fantastic to come back here. It's uh Like you say, I always remember the girls in the balcony and uh What about Mr. Sullivan? Was he a nice fellow? No one here would have got that. Was Mr. Sullivan a nice fellow? Mr. Sullivan was really nice. Yeah, uh he was a really cool guy. What do you remember about like coming '64, February of '64? Yeah. Okay. What do you remember about Well, I mean, you know, we'd never been to America. We come here and we People said this is like the biggest show and to tell you the truth, we'd never heard of him.
You know, but Well, you know, England. But, um Yeah, so it was fantastic. We came here and you had to go a few floors down to get makeup. Yeah, it's cavern down there. And we'd kind of used to a little bit of makeup in England and we'd went down there and the girls put makeup on us and it was like bright orange. That's very popular in certain circles these days. Yeah. You fit nicely in. We set a trend. Yeah, actually you did. Now we know where it started. That's where it started. Thanks a lot, Paul McCartney. Uh Yeah. Dude, were you pleased with how it went? Did you have
some sense of what the reaction was? Yeah, I mean, we were very pleased. I mean, looking back on it now, I'm pleased with we're live. And we sound good, man. Yeah, you're tight. You're really tight. Were you nervous about that? Uh yeah, we were a little bit nervous, you know, but uh we young kids and we're sort of full of ourselves. right? Yeah, something like that. Yeah. But uh I'm yeah, you know, it was very exciting. What was your first impression of America itself being over here? Had you been over before that?
No. Okay. So, it was America, you know, and um Yeah, I know, but I'm American. But as a boy from Liverpool Yeah, it was well, you know America's where all the music we loved came from. Uh all the rock and roll, the blues, and the whole thing, even going back to the Fred Astaire. It was all from America. So, that's what we thought America was just the land of the free, Mhm. the greatest democracy. Yes. That's that was what it was. Yep. That was Yeah, yeah, yeah. still is, hopefully. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah. Well, we'll take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Paul McCartney, everybody. Stick around.
