A Poetry Reading With Helena Bonham Carter And Stephen Colbert

[@emercycrite]

My god when she was reciting that poem. Her elocution and diction are flawless.

[@miriamsackler5002]

And without moving her upper lips, like truly upper class Brits.

[@normadesmond6017]

o yeah. nothing better then beautiful and precise english

[@normadesmond6017]

exquisite. pure bliss!

[@jonathantrauner3742]

She needs a EGOT

[@marshmellowjjigae]

I hope she knows that now, *she* is the person that young aspiring actresses wish to be! Such a class act!

[@sleepingrosess]

I hope so too :')❤

[@jayl.6960]

When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on

[@normadesmond6017]

and that's about as good as it gets....

[@normadesmond6017]

and that's pure perfection

[@Lia-A-Eastwood]

Goodness, I actually know that High Holborn poem. And I have no clue at all where I've saved that file in my brain. 🤣

[@writerspen010]

I LOVE IT WHEN HE AND HIS GUESTS TALK LITERATURE AND POETRY 🤩

[@eddiepanedi8561]

So safe and smug in our, screaming silence. Slipping serenely into our silent violence. It's never much fun, until you have won, but we all leave this world blithely burnt and shunned to travel into the beyond well done. She left me sick, as far as I can tell, slowly fading ensnared by her smallest swells. Pulled all along, dragged deep into a heap; led to tunnel into a desolate stretch left unpainted and blue. Torn like taffy, from your visage. Your body has no faith But, your mind left a message. Fade away blessed, triumphantly tingling. A sensation leaves us all interwoven, still intermingling, in sad repose, forever ringing. Carved and drawn slowly falling out from flaking flesh filtered throughout a delicate sieve in delicious distress you long to forget. In the midst of lilac darkness you begin anew, back to square one a lot of miles done yet nothing to remember, until next November, when skies mix into gray, and in our slumber we have nothing to say. Our symbiosis is atrocious as a notion... ...given to pure devotion. your words writ large, and spilled like potion... trickling slowly down deep into a bottomless ocean Yet, I cannot dismiss all of your distress flicked everlasting onto our canvas mess, made and laid, inspected, dissected and introspected. Made to be best, by the best, no less, and better on all occasion for mass persuasion. For no truer words ring out to find, you in the womb lying entranced resting, protesting, looking askance. Left lightly consumed, you make room to bloom, into your delicate space, A race I face, moving apace, in hurried haste. Blinded by starlight, searching in tune for a golden goon. A boon to whom? And you left me so soon. I must conclude, as we alight onto our brood that it would be rude and lewd to end confused so misconstrued eating fingerless food with sad attitudes crude and shrewd beaten and blued still even then I remain forever in the mood.

[@pineapplejive]

SAME!!! My all-time favorite was Helen Mirren reading the ending of Ulysses. ❤️

[@rhov-anion]

I'll never forget my very first e.e. cummings poem. I wrote (and actually made money) on poems since I was 11, but cummings... he was a game-changer! my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister Isabel created hundreds (and hundreds)of socks not to mention fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that I would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

[@writerspen010]

My favourite poem is "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth. It's too long for a KZbin comment, so I'll just share my favorite portion: What though the radiance, which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight Though nothing can bring back the hour of the splendor in the grass, the glory of the flower We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind...

[@aileengarcia8735]

eddie panedi May I ask who wrote this please?

[@cyranodb]

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

[@BoomBoom-sr8nt]

cyranodb title?.. lol found it

[@normadesmond6017]

oh yeah!

[@yashiAR]

That was so nice. Always blown over by people’s, especially Stephen’s, capability to recite on cue.

[@dielaughing73]

The guy's a savant

[@junkmail1203]

I love that he’s such a geek!!

[@bringiton5282]

It's all rehearsed.

[@slouberiee]

It's usually because of one's family. If your parents are able to recite and you have poetry books at your family home, you probably too will be able to recite on cue.

[@candacenance5250]

He quoted the poem he used to tell his wife that he liked her. (He tells that story in an ask the audience segment.) Colbert, a gentleman, and a treasure.

[@versatilians]

God, I've always had a weird crush on Helena. She just never seems to age, even though she's into her 50s now. I could listen to her speak for hours....and I have such a love for the "darkness" that she exudes in some of her movie roles and in "real life", as well, with her sense of humor and story-telling. She's such a damn interesting woman to me. When I see an interview with her, I'm gonna click! :)

[@beatriced222]

Sameeee I especially love listening to her speaking and telling stories

[@sleepingrosess]

100% agreed to everything you said! She is so fascinating!

[@clothilde1623]

I’m a straight woman and I have a crush on her too! She’s utterly beguiling, and often very funny (see her interviews with Craig Ferguson and Graham Norton). Love her as Marla Singer in _Fight Club._ 😍 That said, I’m not a big fan of the fact she had an affair with Kenneth Branagh when he was married to Emma Thompson. But that’s more on him than her.

[@celestelalianna7276]

@@clothilde1623 Love her too! Don't think you're straight though...

[@clothilde1623]

Ann Pourqisuo Haha, I can see why you’d think so, but as much as I admire how gorgeous and talented she is, I would never want to, well, have ‘knowledge’ of her. Not my cuppa, alas. See, one can recognise and appreciate the beauty and allure of a person without wanting to experience it themselves. Personally I like tall dark men with dark eyes and hair and beards that I can feel brush on my face. Mmmm. That’s what ‘does it’ for me. But I think every (enlightened) adult can recognise what they find appealing in both men and women.

[@maxsiehier]

Stephen: Can I give you a poem back? It's really short... Helena: Sure. Stephen: Recites a three times as long poem from memory that's also completely relevant to Helena's poem.

[@Buenomars]

_Celia, Celia_ by Adrian Mitchell (1932 - 2008) When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with nothing on

[@Zenobiadream]

Shes so comfortable.. I love her..even the way shes sitting on the sofa lol educated.. smart and sharp. Iove this woman

[@onan.o2308]

i love how present stephen is in all his interviews

[@zyzzyvacation]

I always think of Helena as a bohemian aristocrat 🤭

[@raqueldobson1]

Wired Weird - she is!

[@direnova6284]

@@raqueldobson1 Perceptive.

[@ryeryeryerye]

Raquel Dobson really?

[@jeakeen1]

Well firstly she is an aristocrat and I agree she does have a bohemian vibe.

[@jessica5497]

Well she is both lol

[@TheReySkywalker]

So glad this interview was close to 15 minutes. She deserves a whole 30 minute interview

[@mireillelebeau2513]

Love her, like the way she acts, like her dress and like her address

[@carolynworthington8996]

Mireille Lebeau Address?

[@aiai-j7i]

LOL! Stalker!

[@julierogers1155]

Both Helena and Stephen are golden here.

[@d.7416]

She is as european as it gets 👌 she could be a parisian mademoiselle, a Berlin Fräulein, a London Dame, but never an american. 😜 Love everything about it.

[@samasoku]

Sychlo Killent wat? european culture is very alike. compared to other continents

[@potaatoo8793]

@@MT-eo6tq that doesn't make any sense if all europeans are different european americans are different from europeans as well

[@TheInselaffen]

Never seen Fight Club?

[@nanonano03]

If i remember correctly i think she played American in 'Big Fish' ...

[@spacemaria_]

Imagine thinking Europeans are one homogenous cultural group

[@ibeetellingya5683]

My God, They're both so precious, priceless, precocious. A gem of an interview.

[@larafaceroli_]

me, pretending to be an intellectual: “ah yes, i know that one”

[@cannibalbananas]

Great poem, Helena 😂 My fav is the beginning of an Emily Dickensen poem: "A bird came down the walk he did not know I saw he bit an angle worm in halves and ate the fellow raw"

[@miracudrag]

Colbert always has the perfect thing up his sleeve, I love what he did here!

[@kissedbyfirewyrms7312]

I’ve been a fan of Helena since “Lady Jane” and “Room With A View”, and she’s had an interesting and storied career since those times. “A Poetry Reading With Helena Bonham-Carter and Stephen Colbert”, for someone who also loves poetry and Stephen Colbert, was weirdly specific clickbait.

[@delfacabaroc9093]

So glad Helena came on THIS late night show. No other could ever engage Helena better than Stephen.

[@kinkong1961]

Helena is one hell of a person very nice to talk to and boy she is very intelligent and a brilliant actress which most inspire to be when they accomplish fame and fortune.

[@timothywayne3813]

I've had my poetry published 50 times, but never won a contest and I am furious... just a little. Hearing a mini poetry reading on a late night show was great. It should happen more often.

[@maxmd9218]

I loved her in A Room With A View. And Julian Sands....

[@posapie]

Yes - that is one of my favorite movies of all time !!

[@bryanalexander1839]

I first saw her in Lady Jane when I was about fourteen or fifteen and I have liked her since. A Room with a View preceded Lady Jane, but I did not see that until quite a bit later (probably around the time of another Merchant/Ivory production with her in it: Howard's End).

[@jeanpettit8346]

I love it. We need to learn to express ourselves, and it should be encouraged in schools too.

[@ryncricket2001]

Best 3:55 minutes on recording. And Lady Jane is my favorite movie ever.

[@sleepingrosess]

the way i love her with all my heart, i could just watch and listen to her for hours❤

[@jaimereynolds258]

Have always loved her. She is great in The Crown too ☺️

[@aleyasiddiqui]

I absolutely love her ♥️♥️

[@LanceCorporalKitty]

I actually live off HIgh Holborn!

[@suecastillo4056]

Bellatrix! You talented and fabulous minx! One of a kind you are dear heart🥰🦋🕊🐞

[@edwardianspice1]

Pattern of Roses! I love that film!

[@bearthrevolution]

As a poet, I love this endearing exchange w/ you two. :D

[@MoniBahaa]

I first watched her in a BBC, made for tv movie for Bernard Shaw's Arms And The Man. She was extremely young and it was quite memorable.

[@kindlefyre1138]

Adore her!! ❤️

[@andreeac5193]

She is amazing!!!

[@heatheroliver8611]

Shes wonderful

[@josefinamautone1293]

more Helena!!

[@LynneJordan11]

She's lovely.

[@Ana_crusis]

She's great!

[@angelashumard8541]

“a naked woman is worth a million statues” helena: “aw 🥺”

[@Magnetron33]

Incredibly interesting woman!. No just a great actress with incredible range... seems to be so much more!

[@manugulati1105]

Helena won that poetry battle hands down

[@mariabautista9773]

Cuando hay talento, aunque vengas de buena cuna, demuestras lo q vales. Excelente trayectoria

[@8nansky528]

I ADORE READING

[@diegomoreno5927]

her voice is like taken directly out of a book

[@ghw7192]

There are videos of Helena reading poetry and children's books on KZbin. Well worth checking out.

[@Xenolilly]

I love the movie a Room with a View and Lady Jane too.

[@robertkrueger5477]

Love this guy.

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

Huh? Guy?

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

@O. B. Oh 😂.....I was thinking..."I'm almost certain that's a woman". But you never know today lol

[@robertkrueger5477]

I meant Stephen Colbert

[@normadesmond6017]

`both of then - flawless!

[@Jimunu]

She seems like she could be a great Princess Leia character in star wars.

[@Martin-so7ep]

woah..... i see the resemblance now

[@hawsrulebegin7768]

God yeah. That makes sense now you mention it.

[@rhov-anion]

Now I really want that.

[@Ellieee1117]

Great! I will watch it if she was in the movie xD

[@markoosh]

"You wrote poem and got cash for it? Not many poets can say that." Oh my sweet summer child. You obviously don't know about Middle East and their obsession with poets. Literally all hit songs are written by poets over here.

[@YouTuber-my2ky]

Oh. Interesting

[@markoosh]

@@KZbinr-my2ky I can't tell if Stephen was being sarcastic though... I feel dumb.

[@BenStimpsonAuthor]

It's funny, listening to her accent change is fascinating. I grew up in North America myself but I have a British accent still and depending on whom I'm with, it becomes stronger or weaker. I guess because of all the time she's spent in North America you can hear her American twang "I wanded to be" ... and then it switches to full on english when she recites that poem.

[@RB-oz1mm]

I want an app that sends me audio files of Colbert recitations daily.

[@ladylina3529]

She always has great hairstyles

[@eddiepanedi8561]

So safe and smug in our, screaming silence. Slipping serenely into our silent violence. It's never much fun, until you have won, but we all leave this world blithely burnt and shunned to travel into the beyond well done. She left me sick, as far as I can tell, slowly fading ensnared by her smallest swells. Pulled all along, dragged deep into a heap; led to tunnel into a desolate stretch left unpainted and blue. Torn like taffy, from your visage. Your body has no faith But, your mind left a message. Fade away blessed, triumphantly tingling. A sensation leaves us all interwoven, still intermingling, in sad repose, forever ringing. Carved and drawn slowly falling out from flaking flesh filtered throughout a delicate sieve in delicious distress you long to forget. In the midst of lilac darkness you begin anew, back to square one a lot of miles done yet nothing to remember, until next November, when skies mix into gray, and in our slumber we have nothing to say. Our symbiosis is atrocious as a notion... ...given to pure devotion. your words writ large, and spilled like potion... trickling slowly down deep into a bottomless ocean Yet, I cannot dismiss all of your distress flicked everlasting onto our canvas mess, made and laid, inspected, dissected and introspected. Made to be best, by the best, no less, and better on all occasion for mass persuasion. For no truer words ring out to find, you in the womb lying entranced resting, protesting, looking askance. Left lightly consumed, you make room to bloom, into your delicate space, A race I face, moving apace, in hurried haste. Blinded by starlight, searching in tune for a golden goon. A boon to whom? And you left me so soon. I must conclude, as we alight onto our brood that it would be rude and lewd to end confused so misconstrued eating fingerless food with sad attitudes crude and shrewd beaten and blued still even then I remain forever in the mood.

[@rievans57]

We need poetry and poetry needs us-

[@readingturtle9036]

Like her in Lady Jane but absolutely fell in love with her in A Room with a View. That's still my favorite bildungsroman movie.

[@Nina-oi1qk]

start of 2 great careers in that film; Helena Bonham Carter and a certain Mr Daniel Day Lewis!

[@killerqueenfbr]

Love her a lot!!!

[@krokodyl1927]

‘a pretty girl who naked is, is worth a million statues’ 😊

[@Kredeidi]

An interesting view on the case! Eye opening!

[@rhov-anion]

e.e. cummings wrote many poems like that. My high school English teacher kept telling me that I couldn't recite his poems in class due to their nature. My favorite is "my sweet old etcetera." It was my first cummings poem and threw me for a loop, as his poems do. When I worked out the ending, I blushed a lot. 😊

[@bobbymkd457]

What an interview!

[@damianbowyer6258]

Wow....Celia Celia & Mr. Youse.

[@lauraanselmo4308]

Attrice simpatica molto versatile anche comica soprattutto brava

[@aweescotsdog8358]

Poems about hope and love are always nice. I wrote this one when Hope Hicks stonewalled the House Judiciary committee hearing for Trump. True love, and hope! Lovely, oh nearly forgot poetry (well limerick) corner: Committee Hearings (aka Hear no Evil - Muting for Putin!) Hope Hicks speaks very softly to stall You can hardly hear her talk at all But a voice deep inside her Blows the case open wider Exposing her as a Russian doll That's how Trump sees her as an asset (Her posterior is a facet) That he likes to admire How it makes him perspire He watches on VHS Cassette But lately Trump's spirits are sagging Because his polling has been flagging So he orders "Hope Hicks Close your mouth on Trump's tricks" Desperate to enforce a court gagging Is that you ... Double Don Tinder (of Double Don Tinder's Double Entendres)? I thought I saw you sneaking around there.

[@jenielynalim2180]

I love her

[@RTKdarling]

A pretty girl, who naked is, is worth a million statues. Preach brother

[@thestreamer1481]

my favorite poem is : Shre nazg golugranu kilmi-nudu, Ombi kuzddurbagu gundum-ishi, Nugu gurunkilu bard gurutu, Ash Burz-Durbagu burzum-ishi, Daghburz-ishi makha gulshu darulu. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul, Daghburz-ishi makha gulshu darulu.

[@NewMessage]

I know one about a guy from Nantucket..

[@pamelacass9642]

Ogden Nash: The problem with a kitten is that Eventually it becomes a CAT. I loved Ogden Nash.

[@mattk6101]

She's an amazing woman!!

[@sunflowerkidworld]

Such a classy lady

[@smeenasiddiqui7464]

I love poet.....as you know it Best wishes....eat best cooked dishes 2024 not before.

[@Rayzersword]

Poems about naked women with one of my favorite actors god i love the late show haha

[@aquamarinarosa]

so she understands I got into cosplay and possibly why I do it now, as well as acting

[@dorotaszymczak3672]

Cudowna normalna kobieta ♥️♥️♥️💋

[@fk9498]

Bellatrix Lestrange is an.. adorable person.... ??

[@absolutelyimmaculate6072]

English poems sound so much better with proper english accent

[@matthieuesnot7458]

Joyeux anniversaire Héléna Bonham carter ( bellatrix Lestrange ) 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Ash.Crow.Goddess]

Is there anyone this man can't charm?

[@gedorev]

I love Lady Jane

[@safyan9442]

“mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues” ― E.E. Cummings

[@dangle933]

Googling "Helena Bonham Carter on Jimmy Fallon" now

[@dielaughing73]

Ew

[@UXGillespie]

She's so awesome, she's like the CReepy Aunt ILF, a CRAILF, if you will.

[@lezperv3]

Shit man I love her laugh, reminds me of her roll as Bellatrix

[@saultube44]

poetry for me is like a perfect delusion with something beautiful, so much it would hurt, and then falling out of it because is not real, when you hit the wall of reality at the high speed of life, is better to dream carefully but wildly about feasible things, is much more productive and emotionlly safe IMO, at least I like to administrate my feelings this way

[@maxmd9218]

She is so posh!

[@raqueldobson1]

O. Cornelio Palanca - few people know her family’s true history but she is related to one of the original 1% families way back when...

[@pixlfinch1091]

I think one of her grandfathers was the prime minister of England

[@mrxanthios7045]

Marla Singer!

[@tuesdae666]

My, they're so cultured.

[@da96103]

I thought she was gonna recite: There was once a young woman from Dallas...

[@celestelalianna7276]

LOL!

[@chanomnl]

💖💖💖💖💖

[@edwardianspice1]

Haaaaa❤!

[@darrenwall8720]

Helena is everyone’s favourite aunt...

[@sdfkjgh]

3:03 Now, is Celia the one with nothing on, or is it the reciter of the poem? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGXZl2uEa6yjmq8m2s

[@willlexie]

Poetry? IMPOSTOR!!! That is someone who drank polijuice potion.

[@eddiel7635]

Lady Jane is really good

[@rossanafioravanti8526]

People talking poetry on TV. How welcome! At last!

[@thekingofcool2105]

His name is Robert Paulson.

[@laterreurrouge1917]

"I want your abortion."

[@nanonano03]

His name is Robert Paulson.

[@thatcandont]

Now I definitely want to see her play a character inspired by Christopher hitchens lol