Meanwhile… Al Pacino’s Childhood Trauma | Male Birth Control Arriving Soon

Meanwhile… Actor Al Pacino shared a harrowing story from his youth, and a pill for male birth control is on the way.
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Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology and more. Featuring bandleader Louis Cato and “THE LATE SHOW band,” the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert took over as host, executive producer and writer of THE LATE SHOW on Sept. 8, 2015.

[@vikingspud]

"Why am I spending so much on scrotox?... They do look younger." lol

[@lisagulick4144]

Those injections, though...😮

[@avro-day]

Yes, because women are after smooth round balls 😂

[@speicaldark]

The elephant is so energetic and adorable!

[@PatrickPierceBateman]

And sexy.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

it's like i'm back at AnthroCon during their annual fursuit parade in the aughts... miss those days TTwTT

[@elhoward7440]

Am I the only one who thinks the elephant is actually an attractive female dancer?

[@speicaldark]

@@elhoward7440 No doubt she is!

[@karenwagner6880]

The room temperature chum dumpster of news… Y’all never disappoint!!! 😂😂😂

[@waltonstreet5740]

Chum Dumpster - Trump's secret identity.

[@chezmoi42]

That was truly poetic.

[@VerySadPenguin]

Oh, he said chum... thanks for clearing that up for me.

[@christopherbedford9897]

👍👍 - yummy.

[@chrissabal7937]

Some script writer actually made him say "Chum dumpster"

[@mikerichards6065]

And 'scrotox'.

[@velligis]

That one has painted the strongest picture in my brain of all of these intros. Ew.

[@Coloradiohead]

Good thing it had an H in it though!

[@markabbott3936]

@@Coloradiohead the whole bit was pronounced so carefully but at speed, those 2 words especially! This bit is now my alltime fave of Meanwhiles!

[@skilletlicker]

"... and toss it with what's left of a pigeon...."

[@dan-jacobenglish1559]

Er. Meh. Gerd. Of all the things I never thought to have in common with Al Pacino. I still remember crawling on my hands and knees the half block home. I feel yer pain Al.

[@markwatson7652]

The composer of those intros is one twisted SOB! LMAO!

[@TopmomentsTV68]

the elephant is so cute😂

[@elizamccroskey1708]

Excellent dancer too!

[@marilynkohn8538]

Love the theme music! Perfect for an elephant!!

[@bhuddy1832]

Elie the Elephant helps New Yorkers forget about the Mets....

[@StargazerFromBC]

the what?

[@shauntesofly]

I disagree, it lets them know they deserve higher quality twerking mascots 😂😂😂

[@chiragdoshi5036]

But the NY Mets are my favorite squad

[@theBestElliephant]

Gotta back a fellow elliephant up, you misspelled Ellie 😬

[@vegasa2067]

The Mets had an amazing season even if they didn’t make it to the World Series

[@xxsheolxx]

Oh. if only we could have Gilbert Godfrey's angelic voice grace us in an audio book version of Al Pacino's memoirs.

[@mistrike100]

I nearly got thrown out of my improv class. We were supposed to do some improv in the style of our favorite comedians and I chose Gilbert Gottfried. I did it all too well. Miss that guy!

[@elhoward7440]

"Aflack!"

[@TheGreatAtario]

*Gottfried

[@victoriaeads6126]

Ellie, you've grown up so much since you were on Pocoyo!!!! You ROCK!!

[@randolphvictorconstantine7765]

Now I wanna see who is inside that mascot.

[@Justusson]

Me too!

[@situational.analysis]

Tina Turner lives!

[@blackNwhitetalkshow]

I googled it also but didn't find anything 😕😔

[@ColoringKaria]

Um. That’s no mere mascot that’s twerking greatness! Upon learning that the team that created her created another wnba mascot Ellie wrote on Instagram: “And just so we are clear, I’m an ONLY CHILD!” 😂😮😂

[@saar144]

Probably that Australian breakdancer

[@ezrakirkpatrick5365]

4:22 Actually, the chemical typically used during embalming is formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is very toxic/carcinogenic. Benzaldehyde is relatively safe.

[@falconbritt5461]

I hear alcohol turns into (in part) formaldehyde after ingestion. So of course, a lot of people drink it daily - then wonder why cancer is so widespread.

[@ezrakirkpatrick5365]

@@falconbritt5461 During processing by your liver, alcohol turns into acetaldehyde, which is carcinogenic but not as bad as formaldehyde. Sometimes though fermentation creates methanol as a by-product, which does turn into formaldehyde in your liver. That’s why you need a license to distill alcoholic beverages

[@WandererJester]

@@falconbritt5461no that would be what happens when you drink methanol. If the chemical word isn’t the same, then it isn’t the same.

[@SpeckleKen]

@@ezrakirkpatrick5365 All agreed. Additional for completeness, booze commonly contains formaldehyde, with a study finding 0.69 mg/l in brandies and less in others. If that's the only source this is quite low, the WHO establishing a tolerable concentration of 2.6 mg/l.

[@mwater_moon2865]

@@falconbritt5461 Fun fact, Aspartame-- the fake sugar in diet sodas-- beaks down in heat to form methanol. Which will turn into formaldehyde in your liver. So booze ain't your only problem ;) Though to be fair there are several fermented beverages that do contain methanol, including but not limited to those made from apples and pears which is why homemade cider but especially apple brandy/apple jack and perry were heavily linked to blindness and madness.

[@PjotrFrank]

Scrotox. 😂

[@user-uy2fd8cp9o]

Patent penting, all rights reserved.

[@3souris]

The nerdiosity level of that tiny $5,300 Rubik's cube is staggering.

[@sixfigureskibum]

By far not the most expensive rubix. They make em in18k white gold with colored saphires

[@xxsheolxx]

Where's my tiny Lament Configuration?

[@verdatum]

I feel like it's only a matter of time before two of them are plated in gold and made into very expensive cufflinks.

[@mk1st]

“Oh right, she left me”🤣😂

[@lynemac2539]

​@@verdatum Or earrings.

[@Justusson]

Al Pacino has never been on the Late Show With Stephen Colbert, if anyone is wondering. And after tonight, he never will,.. 😅

[@Vtarngpb]

Say hello to my lil’ fren! 😂

[@xxsheolxx]

@@Vtarngpb Careful, it has PTSD.... it's been through some shit.

[@JazznRealHipHop]

WOO HAA

[@tjewett1967]

He has a good sense of humor. He'll show up.

[@winstonwho]

kinda hope he doesnt. hes become a jerry springer version of himself.

[@misterbum1]

Excellent Meanwhile lead in. About time that Cassoulet received its due.

[@Alex-js5lg]

"What are you doing in my -swamp- -Pitt- Palestine?" - Sen. John Shrekerman

[@CornholioForyou]

Vote. It's the only way to prevent an unwanted presidency

[@FutureCommentary1]

Right after the male birth control pill I read that as "unwanted pregnancy".

[@CornholioForyou]

@@FutureCommentary1 Its a pun

[@wilder666]

😂😂😂❤

[@oldauntzibby4395]

The Great Cornholio has spoken. heh heh heh heh

[@CornholioForyou]

@@FutureCommentary1 The unwanted pregnancy was around Sept-Oct of 1945

[@ursaltydog]

That was a very well placed, "Meet my little friend!!!"... Hooahhhhh!

[@qing-jaohan8641]

4:00 "a photum" What a great Freudian slip

[@MrPolkaParty]

Now that is one damn small Rubiks Cube

[@KwK-c7t]

It's not Danny de Vito. 😅

[@user-uy2fd8cp9o]

@@KwK-c7t One of Danny's childhood toys.

[@Carlton_Banda]

"SAY ELLO TO MY LU FWEND"😂😂

[@infinitepower1449]

Scrotox 😂

[@IAmJustR]

"smooth as eggs" 😂😂

[@3rdmm]

Sounds like a made-up gag name, but is actually real. Because, of course.

[@thomasw.5344]

@@3rdmm not to be confused with scrot-ex the german military grade vasectomy franchise lol

[@landonewts]

Please, Late Show, NEVER mute Lewis’s mic. His reactions give me life.

[@michaelscot4816]

Ahhhhh...cassoulet. 🥰

[@Crimethoughtfull]

I don't understand half of the intros anymore--the writers are getting too fancy! LOVE these Meanwhile intros even though I have no clue what they're about anymore...I understood "duck". LOL

[@pjforde1978]

Books! Who needs 'em.

[@briansmith-l1q]

I'll never forget a johnny carson clip, many years ago, where johnny takes a five pound hammer to an anvil , lol

[@BurritoMassacre]

I love Ellie the Elephant! I know there’s a Black woman behind the mask and she’s having the time of her life! 🎉🎉

[@mwater_moon2865]

They won't say who it is, but artist is queer, so don't assume gender

[@napalmholocaust9093]

The sound he made was the phrase "never again!, for some people. But others deserve it and that's my goal, to facilitate it for them."

[@matrisgallus6189]

Al Pacino is listed as one of the oldest men to ever father a child. Injury couldnt have been too bad.

[@fifiwoof1969]

Froze his sperm before his injury.

[@antoniograncino3506]

Really ? Al Cioppino was all of 61 when Olive and Anton were born. Is there much more recent progeny in the woodpile ?

[@kingayy9267]

He said he mostly has a "relationship" via video calls. With an infant.

[@TheRealDuckofDeath]

@@antoniograncino3506 It was in the news a few weeks back, he got another kid at the age of 84.

[@instinctrix]

​@@antoniograncino3506he fathered a child at 83, last year!

[@gersonsouza3411]

2:52 😂😂😂😂 Whooa Al Pacino

[@Stacey-ul3oe]

Congrats 🎉🎉NY Liberty 🏀👍

[@nicholasschoonbeck6866]

I would buy a book of Stephen's intros to Meanwhile.

[@lindablue7494]

OMG The Al Pacino jokes keep them coming. lol! I swear its a dude in the Ella costume. lol!

[@34rn357]

Amazing writing in that opening bit, and an excellent delivery.

[@ElGordo1959]

A young Al Pacino once danced on an iron bar A tightrope walk on a thin fence, that didn’t go far He slipped and he fell And it didn’t go well Hit him directly between the legs, shouting Hoo-ah!

[@imnotmike]

Once when I was young, I fell and hurt my penis. It bothers me still.

[@JamesJones-mm2nm]

Shades of Crag and Secretariat!

[@clmeha]

Go Ellie!

[@clmeha]

Yay! I’m first!

[@Sewicide]

"Lost Cherry" isn't new. It has been around for so long, there's a knockoff sold by Zara

[@krisfrederick5001]

"Honey, I also shrunk the Rubik's cube"

[@situational.analysis]

Marty, the Maraschino Mortician.

[@mason96575]

How’d you make Maraschino into a link like that? I’ve been seeing that all over KZbin since Monday- have no idea how it’s done! 😅

[@situational.analysis]

@@mason96575 It was a natural leap from the aforementioned cherry flavored embalming fluid. 🍒 ☠️

[@situational.analysis]

@@mason96575 It was a natural leap from the aforementioned cherry flavored embalming fluid. 🍒 ☠️

[@kevinbarr9003]

Stephen said "Sausage" Totally thinking about Arnold Palmer!

[@xxsheolxx]

Golf was such a miscalling...

[@JuliWieApril]

Learning about rules in my country from an american late night host ... thanks, Stephen xD always fun watching you talk about Germany

[@Faks-Now]

Scrotox 🤣🤣🤣

[@paularchibald7734]

Steven, thanks for having the band play a number for youtube. Please ask if Louis has any other charts? Thanks again.

[@verdatum]

Benzaldehyde and formaldehyde are somewhat related molecules that behave completely differently. Benzaldehyde is literally artificial cherry flavoring. It is not used in the embalming process.

[@canaanval]

Unless you want a bitter almond scented corpse!

[@rapheAltoid77]

It's a very common embalming deodorant used to mask the chemical smell of the embalming process.

[@omi_god]

It is, however, used in embalming fluid as a deodorant, according to the internet.

[@verdatum]

@@rapheAltoid77 Right, so now, the story is: The product used as a cologne is being used in a cologne. SHOCKING.

[@southernweather25]

2:54 that shouldn’t have made me laugh so much 😂

[@ScottWorthington]

I watch this show. Stephen spends most of his time where he is right now, sitting behind the desk.

[@juliaranz4349]

While you may watch the show - do you watch him while he's preparing? If so what's the live cam url so we all can?

[@HappyHoney41]

You have ruined my ability to make faux Toasted Almonds; using almond flavoring. Now, instead of bring me joy, my emergency shelf stable cocktails are just going to remind me how close I am to the end.

[@marilynm677]

Better to know

[@bryanergau6682]

Darkness envelopes us all. Do whiskey about it.

[@pango-y8j]

The image of a cactus is not a 🌵 cactus, it's a euphorbia. Greetings from Tucson Arizona Sonoran Desert 🌵

[@karolabryant2798]

Love the elephant. Strong and feminine despite the trunk. 😅

[@StargazerFromBC]

I like Big Trunks and i cannot lie ...

[@Gfy69ytb]

It’s his writer Elia….

[@shauntesofly]

Junk in the trunk is notoriously feminine😂😂😂😂

[@horacio-ho3bf]

Looks like a Crackoderm

[@bryanergau6682]

Only male elephants stand up. I want you to think about that real hard.

[@shanereber7715]

Pretty good Pacino impressions!

[@StoneSouldier]

The photo on the cookbook showing him having cheese poured over his hands.... just a split second but whomever in the graphics dept made that up needs a raise.

[@Kenzie_Hill]

This is the first time the intro was much better than the Meanwhile jokes 🤷‍♀️🤷🤷‍♂️

[@harrietthespy2119]

Scrotox!!!😂😂😂

[@paulramos4037]

First is Arnold Palmer, then Al Pacino...who's next?!?

[@rumpvirus7393]

I think Buzz Aldrin and John Glen went around the world together.

[@heathercaldwell6813]

This Al Pacino bit is cracking me up! Lol FR! ❤️ Voting BLUE 💙 in PA ❤️🤍💙

[@The_Infamous_Boogyman]

3:41 only Pacino could make a semi feel so weird 😅

[@sandra-oc7ye]

“lost cherry” ? That is a deplorable name.

[@susette7066]

The rubiks cube was in the pocket… laundry…

[@bradleyheck7204]

Scrotox was gold.

[@thewu910]

“Get me that elephant!” 😅

[@wengweng-h4m]

We are in the worst place so are we 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@elliechristie2498]

Scotox?? Hilarious!

[@Littlemisstimelord25]

Ellie rockin a Bianca Belair style and im here for it

[@sMVshortMusicVideos]

Scrotox deserved a bigger laugh, ha ha ha.

[@GreatDayEveryone]

But does the perfume contain Worcestershire sauce? 😉

[@erroneousbotch4404]

I want a churro now

[@srf2112]

'Scrotox"? 😂😂😂

[@bbbbbb9326]

So weird to see the cactus story being covered in international press 😂

[@garryferrington811]

I didn't want to know about Al Pacino...but it was funny.

[@green_arr0w84]

Now Trump will prolly cook up a story about Al Pacino's one-eyed trouser snake... 🤦

[@al2275]

That's not how it works. rump will take pacino's story and make it all about TRUMP.

[@olinballentine2666]

Been embarrassing going to my doctor every day asking if it's ready yet.

[@whoaskedforthisbs]

Ellie thought it was her show. " Thanks, Ellie... Alright, you can leave now"

[@TaniaTalksChaos]

The elephant lady has got to be the Queen of Cool. I hope we learn who she is someday.

[@vt100music]

Real Men get vasectomies

[@lynemac2539]

I did the same stunt and got bruised from waist to knees, but fortunately, I am female! 😎

[@sarcasmo57]

I almost spat out my room temperature chum when he said that. Swallowed it down though.

[@CelticShrew]

Discarded soup in a old paint bucket with a dead pigeon topped with a crumpled up churro sounds like good eats wheen I was a starving student!

[@BuildAnotherWall]

When were you on the C train last?😂😂

[@MSHNKTRL]

WOW I SO did not need to know about Pacino

[@eljaysmiley]

Scrotox!😂

[@KaiValentino-r5w]

Stephen Combert..You need people like Me, So you can point your fuckin finger and go..Thats the Bad guy..

[@jalabi99]

Depending on where they put that one-person Pizza Hut, it may turn into the latest corporate-sponsored public toilet ... Lord knows NYC needs as many public potties as we can get😅

[@skipwest291]

I had the same thing happen to me when I was five. Had to have a operation to fix the damage.

[@MattSeremet]

Colbert pulling an Oliver with the mascot

[@danielmcinnes20]

Vote 🔵 NOT 🟠 turd!!!

[@NeistH2o]

languedoc roussillon represent

[@beebodude]

1:39 No sir, that's Cody Rhodes

[@JoshuaVogel79]

Love colbert, but I always skip the done-to-death Meanwhile intros.

[@lynemac2539]

You're missing out!

[@amberandrews6842]

That would have been traumatic. I am just going to say, physical pain, beyond belief, then utter humiliation.... I am sorry Al.

[@Aphanvahrius]

Pain sure. Possibly big fear of long term health consequences too. But how is that humiliating? I mean you might feel bad about the fact you got injured, and that applies regardless of where you get injured. You might even have an irrational desire for others not to see you injured at the time. But that kind of feeling shouldn't persist and eventually you should be thankful to people who wanted to help you, not feel humiliated.

[@mycosys]

@@Aphanvahrius If only humans were at all logical, and didnt have cultural baggage, you would have a point

[@Aphanvahrius]

@@mycosys I mean, I'm speaking from experience. I was getting injured or sick quite frequently as a kid all over my body. Even if I never experienced such a serious injury to my nether regions, I had a friend who did. And I do recognize the feeling of wanting to not have people around me to know I got injured, or to see it, but it's always temporary and recognizable as irrational. And if it's not, that's probably a sign of an unhealthy family dynamic.

[@mycosys]

@@Aphanvahrius Lets just say i have a LOT more relevant experience. That overlaps with yours, and then some. Try googling how to prevent er3ctions sometime. or even try googling this - pen!s wont autocomplete and all you will find is jokes at his expense.

[@jodycarter7308]

I knew you were making cassoulet about three words in.

[@sMp23152]

Good job, Paul. Fing HATE corporations.

[@nonir670]

Now I need to see who Ellie is

[@hibryd7481]

The plant shown at 3:55 is a euphorbia, not a cactus. All true cactuses come from the American continent, and the plant shown originates from Africa. It's a succulent, and it bleeds a toxic latex that can blind you. I'm not a botanist, I just buy too many plants and have too much time on my hands.

[@ChefNikuman]

"We paid a lot for this dancing elephant so we're using it in two segments!"

[@magicalmysteryschool4714]

💙💙💙

[@DanHiteshew-oneandonly]

I laughed a bit too hard at the scrotox.

[@roberturibe3150]

That wasn't a cactus. That was a euphorbia

[@bryanergau6682]

It's euphorbin time!!!

[@lynnlytton8244]

Differences between Texas and Germany include resigned acceptance of cactus injuries.

[@Kalyandra]

My like is for "Scrotox"