--- title: Jeff Goldblum and Stephen Colbert Have the Best Interviews description: Stephen Colbert’s interview with Jeff Goldblum included the recitation of the Alfred Noyes poem “The Highwayman” from memory. canonical: https://time.com/5635095/jeff-goldblum-on-colbert/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-26T15:18:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:06.148Z og:title: Jeff Goldblum and Stephen Colbert Have Pretty Much Every Topic Covered og:description: They should do interviews like this every day. og:url: https://time.com/5635095/jeff-goldblum-on-colbert/ 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: Jeff Goldblum and Stephen Colbert Have Pretty Much Every Topic Covered twitter:description: They should do interviews like this every day. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 'I Live More in 10 Minutes than Most People do in an Entire Lifetime.' 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=5bdeeff5-1e56-400b-8472-99d375ef2696&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: The Mountain Official Trailer [Watch (HLS stream): The Mountain Official Trailer](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/pp0iDNwi.m3u8) (2:09)  _Published 2019-07-26. The Mountain Official Trailer 2019_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 26, 2019 3:18 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jul 26, 2019 3:18 PM UTC Stephen Colbert has interviewed a lot of people over his years at _The Daily Show_, _The Colbert Report_, and now _The Late Show_. He’s spoken with [Jon Stewart](https://time.com/4772715/stephen-colbert-jon-stewart-complete-friendship-history/), [John Oliver,](https://time.com/5527518/john-oliver-on-stephen-colbert/) the late Supreme Court Justice [John Paul Stevens,](https://time.com/5627420/john-paul-stevens-on-colbert/) and many people not named John. None of those interviews, though, were anything like the interview he had with actor Jeff Goldblum on Thursday night’s episode of _The Late Show_ . The _Jurassic Park_ star had stopped by the late night talk show to promote his new film _The Mountain_, in which he plays the man who invented the transorbital lobotomy, which is the horrifying process of piercing a patient’s brain with an ice pick. “Gruesome,” Goldblum said. But the film only got a passing mention amid the many, many topics that Goldblum covered during his time at the show. As the actor bounced from subject to subject, Colbert struggled to keep up as Goldblum veering from wound care to prison poker to fishing, displaying an impressive collection of throat lozenges on the host’s desk before playing a movie trivia game. “I just want to know,” Colbert deadpanned, four-and-a-half minutes into [Goldblum](https://time.com/5341897/jeff-goldblum-statue-london/)’s stream of conscious roll, “Have we recorded any of this so far?” Even that barely slows Goldblum’s roll and Colbert has no choice but to just let him go. “I live more in 10 minutes than most people do in an entire lifetime,” Goldblum jokes at one point during his impressively scattershot approach to an interview. Finally, Goldblum and Colbert recited the classic Alfred Noyes poem “The Highwayman” from memory an impressive, if oddly-timed academic feat that seems to both wow the audience and confuse them. 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