--- title: Stephen Colbert Interviews Serial's Sarah Koenig: Video description: Stephen Colber interviews Sarah Koenig, host of the podcast "Serial." canonical: https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T17:20:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2024-01-17T17:14:07.000Z og:title: Watch Stephen Colbert Interview Serial's Sarah Koenig og:description: “Did you always want to do true crime reporting that people listen to on a treadmill?” og:url: https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Stephen Colbert Interview Serial's Sarah Koenig twitter:description: “Did you always want to do true crime reporting that people listen to on a treadmill?” twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Stephen Colbert Interview _Serial_'s Sarah Koenig  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Jan 17, 2024 5:14 PM UTCPublished: Dec 11, 2014 5:20 PM UTC  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Updated: Jan 17, 2024 5:14 PM UTCPublished: Dec 11, 2014 5:20 PM UTC **Correction appended: Dec. 11, 2014** Last night’s episode of the _Colbert Report_ brought together two people whose beloved shows will soon come to an end: Stephen Colbert, of course, and his guest, Sarah Koenig. Dec. 18 will mark the final episodes of both _The Colbert Report_ and the first season of Koenig’s wildly popular podcast _Serial_. Colbert interviewed Koenig about what it’s like to be “the world’s first superstar podcaster,” how she came up with the idea for the show and why she changes her opinion over the course of her reporting. While the interview is mostly lighthearted and mutually complimentary, Colbert touches on one serious question about the way in which the world has changed since 1999, the year the central murder in the podcast was committed. “Do you really think,” he asks, “that a guy named Adnan Syed could get a fairer trial after 9/11?” Colbert closes by asking perhaps the most pressing question on the minds of the show’s fans: “Can you just tell me if, by the end of the series, that girl ever learns to pronounce MailChimp?” It looks like we’ll have to wait until next week to learn the answer. _Correction appended: The original version of this article misstated the date of the Colbert Report’s finale. It airs Dec. 18._ _Read next:_ [_Adnan Syed’s Family Finds Comfort in ‘Serial’ Podcast_](http://time.com/3623553/serial-adnan-syed-interview/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Interview Serial's Sarah Koenig","datePublished":"2014-12-11T17:20:09.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-17T17:14:07.000Z","description":"“Did you always want to do true crime reporting that people listen to on a treadmill?”","url":"https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","viral","stephen colbert","the colbert report","Podcast","Serial"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3630176/stephen-colbert-sarah-koenig-serial/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Interview Serial's Sarah Koenig"}}]}] ```