please welcome sarah koenig! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: nice to see you again. >> thank you! >> stephen: congratulations on another season of "serial." for the people who don't upon, "serial" the first major podcast to, downloaded a million times, right. what is it like to be big time in podcasting? is it all just golden microphones and diamond-studied water bottles and ira glass! get my coffee. what is it? >> my favorite thing is my neighbor in pennsylvania calls me "big time" now. "hey, big time!" >> stephen: you are big time. the first season of "serial" the one that blew up was a high school murder mystery the question was, was adnan guilty? did he do it? this year, you've got a totally different approach to the story. it's about bowe bergdahl, who we know deserted, so what's the question this year? >> we know he walked off his post. >> stephen: okay. >> so this is the question, did he desert? what does that mean? >> stephen: okay. what does he say? if you walk off your post without permission, how i

"serial" podcast host sarah koenig. and rev run. featuring jon batiste and stay human. ( cheers and applause ) show with stephen colbert"! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! >> stephen: thanks, everybody! oh, man! here we go! ( cheers and applause ) happy hump day, first of all. i love hump day. it's a nice reminder that no matter how bad things get, the end is in sight. unless you're talking about donald trump. because nothing, but nothing will eve stop this guy. he's way ahead in the polls, he's getting all the endorsements, and i'm not surprised, because there's no one on earth like donald trump. well, except may one person. donald trump. da-da! since you've been gone ya-ya god i have missed you. it's like a magical eagle made a wish on a flag pin and it came to life. which is great. for me. because while trump admittedly has given me so much material to make jokes about, nobody compares to the original material girl. ( cheers and applause ) and sarah palin is such a pro, she knows, when you'r

please welcome sarah koenig! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: nice to see you again. >> thank you! >> stephen: congratulations on another season of "serial." for the people who don't upon, "serial" the first major breakout podcast, the first podcast to, downloaded a million times, right. what is it like to be big time in podcasting? is it all just golden water bottles and ira glass! get my coffee. what is it? >> my favorite thing is my neighbor in pennsylvania calls me "big time" now. "hey, big time!" >> stephen: you are big time. the first season of "serial" the one that blew up was a high school murder mystery. the question was, was adnan guilty? did he do it? this year, you've got a totally different approach to the story. it's about bowe bergdahl, who we know deserted, so what's the question this year? >> we know he walked off his post. >> stephen: okay. >> so this is the question, did he desert? what does that mean? >> stephen: okay. what does he say? if you walk off your post without permission, how is t

"serial" podcast host, sarah koenig. and i'll be cooking with rev run. now stick around for james corden. goodnight! captioning sponsored by cbs >> reggie: are you ready to have some fun feel the love tonight don't you worry 'bout your hang-ups and fears it's the late, late show (cheers and applause) >> ladies and gentlemen, all the way from, give it up for your host the one the only james corden! (cheers and applause) welcome to this your "the late late show with james corden"! thank you! (cheers and applause) thanks for coming out. i really appreciate it. ladies and gentlemen, there was another democratic debate over the weekend. the candidates discussed but, of course, the media issue: bernie sanders gives a mean stink-eye. (laughter) >> accusing sanders of dissing president obama. disappointing -- >> he phot the evil eye, side eye, the stink eye (applause) >> james: when i'm seeing the coverage of a debate, i want to see head lines like "bernie sanders offers fix for education system." not "bernie sanders wins twitter by throwing epic shade." fun fac

"serial" podcast host, sarah koenig. and i'll be cooking with rev run. now stick around for james corden. goodnight! captioning sponsored by cbs >> reggie: are you ready to have some fun feel the love tonight don't you worry 'bout your hang-ups and fears it's the late, late show

"serial" podcast host, sarah koenig. and i'll be cooking with rev run. fun ♪ feel the love tonight don't you worry 'bout ♪ your hang-ups and fears 'bout to set you right ♪ it's the late, late show ♪ (cheers and applause)

"serial" podcast host, sarah koenig. and i'll be cooking with rev run. now stick around for james goodnight!

>> stephen: and you know who the taliban. ( laughter ) sarah koenig, everybody. we'll be right back.