Good Hang with Amy Poehler Steve Carell
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Mar 24, 2026 
Stephen Colbert, comedian and late-night host who met Steve at Second City. Steve Carell, award-winning actor and comedian known for The Office and Rooster. They reminisce about Second City beginnings, Dana Carvey sketches, musical talents and baritone stories. Conversation covers Anchorman set rituals, improv in film, friendships forged in comedy, and Steve’s new college-set show.
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Understudying The Baritone In Six Days
- Stephen Colbert recounts learning the baritone horn quickly to understudy Steve Carell when Carell had a commercial.
- Colbert learned embouchure fingering overnight and played Anchors Away, Pretty Woman, and Taps in six days.
The Joy Of Failure As A Career Compass
- Stephen Colbert frames 'the joy of failure' as a reason to pursue comedy full time.
- He found empathy in watching performers fail and laugh, making failure itself an artistic reward.
Joy Of Failing Together On Stage
- Steve Carell and Amy Poehler relive the Second City culture of embracing failure on stage as a badge of honor.
- They describe driving a failing improv scene into the ground together and sometimes salvaging it, or watching the lights slowly fade.