Stephen Colbert Finally Sat for His Own Questionert

Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show will end its nine-year run on Thursday. On Wednesday, the host did something he had never done: he submitted to the Colbert Questionert himself. The quiz, a quick-fire set of personal questions, became a signature of his tenure. More than 80 celebrities had taken it. For the penultimate episode, a panel of past questionert subjects and friends — Jeff Daniels, Robert De Niro, Amy Sedaris, Ben Stiller, Mark Hamill, Aubrey Plaza, his wife Evie, and John Dickerson — turned the table.

Colbert’s answers were unfiltered and quietly revealing. He described a two-part sandwich philosophy, summer’s tomato on thin white bread eaten over the sink versus the year-round hot pastrami on rye. His first concert: Chuck Mangione’s “Children of Sanchez Tour”