--- title: Stephen Colbert: Interview Ryan Lochte Spoof VIDEO description: The Olympic swimmer may or may not have been intoxicated canonical: https://time.com/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T16:15:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:45.551Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Hilariously Satirizes Ryan Lochte's Interview og:description: Ryan Lochte may or may not have been intoxicated og:url: https://time.com/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/ 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: Stephen Colbert Hilariously Satirizes Ryan Lochte's Interview twitter:description: Ryan Lochte may or may not have been intoxicated twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Hilariously Parodied That Ryan Lochte Interview by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 23, 2016 4:15 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 23, 2016 4:15 PM UTC Stephen Colbert has been on a break from _The Late Show_ during the Olympic Games, but he returned Monday night for to have some fun with Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s exclusive interview about the [whole “overexaggerated” robbery story](http://time.com/4458405/ryan-lochte-rio-robbery-olympics/?iid=sr-link2) he [reported](http://time.com/4460401/ryan-lochte-on-rio-robbery-i-over-exaggerated-that-story/?iid=sr-link4) happened in Rio. Lochte, of course, already sat down with the _Today_ show’s Matt Lauer to explain his version of the incident that made international headlines, but Colbert decided to re-use the same interview, taking short clips from the real interview and re-contextualizing for his audience’s entertainment. In the fake interview, Colbert demands answers, and Lochte’s explanation was simple: “I over-exaggerated that part.” And Lochte had a great answer for everything: “I was intoxicated.” Colbert also poked fun at the swimmer during his monologue, suggesting that Lochte consider a run for president. “Now the whole world thinks that Ryan Lochte is that crazy American with the weird hair who keeps making stuff up and causing an international incident, which is not how an Olympian acts,” Colbert said. “That is how a presidential candidate acts.” > [](https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/767882801492340737) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Hilariously Parodied That Ryan Lochte Interview","datePublished":"2016-08-23T16:15:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:45.551Z","description":"That other Lochte interview","url":"https://time.com/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","2016 presidential election","Donald Trump","late show","Summer Olympics","Ryan Lochte","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"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/4462706/stephen-colberts-ryan-lochte-interview-trump/","name":"Stephen Colbert Hilariously Parodied That Ryan Lochte Interview"}}]}] ```