"Super Nosy & Curious" - Why Katie Couric Was Born For A Career In Journalism

Broadcasting legend Katie Couric, author of the new book "Going There", was probably destined to become a journalist after spending her childhood idolizing Jane Pauley, writing and indulging her curious nature. Stick around for parts two and three of Katie's chat with Stephen Colbert. Info & tickets for Katie's "Going There" book tour can be found here: bit.ly/3p11WLO #Colbert #GoingThere #KatieCouric
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[@31emxof]

Put! Numbers! On! Multiple! Video! Segments! Children shouldn't be better at this than media industry professionals.

[@likebot.]

Shatner, is that you?

[@jwilliamson586]

Seconded.

[@Dr.Magic.]

It really does blow my mind they still don’t do it.

[@wes643]

Stop treating us as if we can’t handle more than 8 minutes of paying attention at a time. Stitch the parts into one interview.

[@simonederobert1612]

Mind-Blowing HINT! - If you are watching this on YT, as the end of one segment is reached, on the RIGHT HAND SIDE of the screen there are TWO (2) segments offered. The LOWER one is from the PREVIOUS DAY. The UPPER one is the NEXT ONE in the series. CLICK on the UPPER RIGHT one!

[@kimberknutson831]

I love it when he throws the book on the floor. : )

[@famousgoldentouch]

I almost can’t comprehend how charming, nice, intelligent and uplifting she is! She’s indeed one of America’s sweethearts (in the best possible way) 👌❤️👍

[@rockturtleneck]

I love that she has written a book that dares to be honest and interesting, not just some sort of vanity puff piece. Isn't that what journalists are supposed to do? I look forward to reading it.

[@famousgoldentouch]

My words ! I’ll order that book too from Europe !

[@clbazar]

I had the pleasure of meeting and talking with Katie a couple of years ago and she couldn’t have been kinder or more interested in me and my life. She was completely authentic and a class act all the way around.

[@famousgoldentouch]

Interesting! May I ask where did u meet her / by what occasion?!

[@clbazar]

@@famousgoldentouch Thanks for asking. I don’t know that this will be that interesting, but I have been going to the SXSW conference off and on for 7-8 years and the last time (2019) on the flight down my friends and colleagues were discussing which panels, workshops, etc we wanted to experience that week and for my part I said I had learned to go with the flow at southby, but the one presenter I really wanted to see was Marc Maron and anything beyond that was gravy. About an hour later and we are talking with Marc and Lynn Shelton in the rental car lot at the Austin airport which was just one of those crazy beautiful moments. Afterwards I said okay, well I guess everything from here is gravy. The next day I was between sessions hanging out on 4th street killing time and trying to decide which session to hit when I looked up, and about 8-10 feet away is Ms Couric also killing time with a woman I think might have been an assistant. I wasn’t sure it was her so I did that rude thing of just staring and puzzling and realizing it would be rude if she looked up and saw me staring which she then did, I smiled and waved and she walked over to me smiling and I apologized for staring and she kinda blew through her lips and said please (no big deal) and then she wanted to know who I was and what I was doing there and I had questions for her too and I guess we stood there talking for about a half hour, but I mean I was an idiot. I called her Katie Curry at first, how’s that for really putting your best foot forward, lol. Fortunately she’s a real human and I’m sure heard it all and she unflustered me and I got caught up in the conversation. Easy to see why she is such a talented interviewer. :-)

[@marianakigandamayengo4562]

I love that she wanted to write a book about a real person. I think that's really cool.

[@cannibalculture4499]

I already liked Katie Couric, but this made me just adore her. What a normal, down to earth person. Nice to see she's kept her humanity and remembers where she came from.

[@MrFancyFingers]

Number your three part segments, how hard is that?!

[@youreg]

​@Vincent oooo Yeah, though I was lucky this time that my default click on the longest segment got the first. Also, the RGB segment is announced in a caption as being next, so that helps, but for the love of God, producers, please do the same in future, and indicate what's first in its title!

[@mariekastler5391]

First World problems.

[@JohnBlutarski]

I agree! A small advise: The longest segment is the first (95% of the times)

[@petergodfrey8610]

@@mariekastler5391 boo hoo, life is so tough.

[@mariekastler5391]

@@petergodfrey8610 right up there with I can't get the right matte mint nail polish for my Pekipoo 😎

[@Be1smaht]

I respect her for owning up to her stuff. Too much fakeness around here

[@marianneh9868]

I am around her age, so I really, REALLy can relate with how one hustled to land a job, to keep a job, and to climb. I mean REALLY. I do not know how it is now, things have changed, but Gee we girls had to show up perfect not only in what we could do but how pretty and feisty we were....Anyway...Cool

[@ziegweid]

Try being non-white

[@BruceHurley]

@@ziegweid: How do you know she's not?

[@mecahunter7092]

We were AND still are!

[@jemiebridges3197]

@@BruceHurley because she got a call back

[@clareleanne]

My mom is 10 years older. She HAS SOME STORIES about being in tech from pretty much the very beginning.

[@laalaa99stl]

6:30 Stephen's reaction to Katie declaring his obsolescence: chef's kiss

[@peachesandpoets]

Lol

[@roberthenleynola]

Definitely my favorite part of the interview. (I just wish he had done it when she first sat down.)

[@MakeupDrShari]

She is so amazing! I grew up watching her and she was always my favorite.

[@ChineduOpara]

She's an underrated gilf

[@Hazel64348]

I grew up watching Katie Couric and Jane Pauly, good role models. I couldn't believe she good work while pregnant on the TV. Thanks you two

[@kimberknutson831]

She is so real. My 22 year-old daughter says that about me, which I really appreciate. Authenticity is extremely important to me. : )

[@Be1smaht]

Thats great and a huge compliment

[@kimberknutson831]

@@Be1smaht Indeed. Thank you. : )

[@op3129]

glad your daughter likes that BUT ... devil's advocate: what about people who's "real" is "asshole"? prozac was promoted as 'makes you more you' - but the problem is "what if you're an asshole?" p.s. glad your daughter likes you AND admires that aspect - AND that your "real" is something admirable. just saying "real" isn't NEARLY always admirable. as an example: trump is totally himself - i.e., "real" for who he actually is.

[@kimberknutson831]

@@op3129 Well, I agree with you, but I am not sure what your beef is with what I have said here. Authentic is what I mean by real. There is nothing about what'shisname that is real other than unmitigated rage with a shiny, orange veneer. Regarding Prozac, I was actually prescribed it briefly many years ago. It threw me into a month-long manic episode. My therapist at the time later said, "Oh, yeah, that is how we knew you were bipolar." I am no longer bipolar. I happen to have been raised by an extreme narcissist like whatshisname. One of the only times my daughter ever saw my mother was on a visit to her house when my daughter was a toddler. My daughter got tired of competing with my mother for my attention, so she started covering my mouth when my mother spoke so that I could not speak to her. That is what we call taking matters into your own hands...literally. : ) My daughter is very empathic like me and also an old soul. Like me, she can smell a narcissist from 100 yards away. Narcissists tend not to like people like us because we can see and feel what they are behind the mask. I have not had contact with my mother for many years. I have peace about this now. Extricating myself from her energetic tendrils almost killed me, but it also made me stronger. I do not believe in accidents, but I do believe in miracles. My daughter is a miracle. I am not supposed to be able to get pregnant. Her father and I have been together for 23 years and have never exercised birth control. She was the one and only. I often say that the universe said to us, "sorry about that whole childhood thing. Here is a miracle. Take good care of it." We did, and her existence also took care of us. : )

[@op3129]

@@kimberknutson831 no beef with YOU. just saying that "real" (or authentic) isn't _necessarily_ a categorical good. no idea why you can't understand that YOU living your authentic self is different than an asshole living his asshole self.

[@alohadave13]

For the record, I love her. She's a great reporter... [have at it trolls...]

[@AdamWestish]

Hold on while I CANCEL you lol

[@georgealmaraz658]

@@AdamWestish caliphate of Texas? get off her nuts. she don’t have any

[@eddy2561]

There's my issue with TV news.....the on-camera talent is more important than the news they cover....TV news is a joke! Quick, name one print media reporter!

[@nicolecopland461]

I concur!

[@ladybug5859]

Spot-on and they are not Walter Cronkite

[@kevinbatdorf]

Stephen watching this like “damn, we should have thought’ve that”

[@Crimsonphilosophy]

Behold, the opposite of Megyn Kelly. Katie Couric is sweet, endearing, and thoughtful and most of all she has natural empathy.

[@tighe2424]

She's a Can't Understand Normal Thinking

[@Crimsonphilosophy]

@@tighe2424 Hey, you're the expert. :)

[@danarzechula3769]

Because Meghan was raised in privilege and that is her perspective

[@hectormejia5533]

I was remembering when Katie Couric anchored the CBS Evening News in September 2006

[@hectormejia5533]

What a memories when Katie Couric Began Anchoring the CBS Evening News Replacing the Former Face the Nation Anchor and Moderator Bob Schieffer

[@valeriag9443]

She was on the Las Culturistas podcast and holy crap I had no idea who she was (I’m 20 so I don’t think I ever saw her on TV) but holy crap her saying swamp-ass is something I’ll never forget😂😂

[@jackieblue4128]

I dont believe observant & nosey Katie didnt know a thing about Matt Lauer miss me with that bs

[@lalitharavindran]

I think she was part of the system she now criticizes.

[@marianneh9868]

It was a very permissive culture, lots of hanging out, dating, romance, flirt etc., so if one said something alarming (if) it was considered gossip, jealousy, canceled out, and so on. much like these days one can not criticize twerking, showing up barely covered etc.,

[@jovenibarra]

Wow, this place is crowded, she says. They are potential book buyers of her memoir.

[@phyllisseidl9117]

Ya, I may be biased (well yea I am)...but listening to the 'left' is so sobering, sooo, dare I say normal. Man, compare that to batshit crazy 'right'. I wonder if they watch Fox they feel the same? Yea. most likely.

[@bonnieskilton3247]

Why does KZbin hide Colbert’s most recent monologues?

[@davidsalter4204]

They're usually up before the show even airs...

[@danarzechula3769]

Oh I thought it was so you would subscribe

[@howardkoor2796]

What a refreshing human being 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@hectormejia5533]

Katie Couric found her groove as a Today correspondent and once she teamed up with Matt Lauer, the duo helped NBC’s morning news ratings to skyrocket. When CBS swooped in with an offer to poach the popular anchor, she signed on for a jaw-dropping $15 million salary.

[@TheLastChickenWing]

lmao. "gotta pay the bills"

[@danarzechula3769]

Yep. Getting it done.

[@lalitharavindran]

Somehow get the feeling Katie was a part of all things that she now criticizes. Edits interviewee’s statements, closes eyes and ears when it involves powerful men.

[@Mandrake591]

Exactly.

[@barbaramccrary572]

NBC was one of the biggest dirty players in morning news and she has the nerve to bring up what ABC did. She is such a hypocrite

[@momcatwoo]

Exactly. I read excerpts of her book and I’m disappointed that SC had her on the show.

[@hectormejia5533]

In 2006, Couric became the first CBS Evening News where she took over for Bob Schieffer, Former Face the Nation Anchor, Senior Washington Correspondent and Moderator. and also the Dan Rather’s interim successor. Along with that gig came the responsibility to contribute to 60 Minutes as part of her contract. CBS hoped Couric’s success at NBC could be duplicated.

[@sophia8405]

She is very manipulative

[@andrewnelson4732]

You think?

[@theresenydahl9531]

This interview in full is a really good one and way better than "The View" did with Katie Couric. Let's just say Sunny did a lousy job🙄

[@peterporkeresq.2817]

Yeah, of asking her questions about what she actually wrote in the book she's hawking, as opposed to allowing her tell stories about dares she had as a kid or where she used to buy her dresses from. Who cares what's in the book right?

[@theresenydahl9531]

@@peterporkeresq.2817 I agree s 100% and it was a lost oportunity for "The View". They should have had Ana Navarro handle it instead, that would have made the segment informative, entertaining and fun. Whoopi was so pleased when she introduced Katie Couric and looked so disappointed when it was over. Sunny handled the interview like a third rate prosecutor and as if Katie Couric was on the witness stand in a court🙄

[@TitoTimTravels]

Sunny really blew that one. She had a burr up her butt the entire time.

[@theresenydahl9531]

@@TitoTimTravels Exactly, Sunny's aim seemed to be to frame Katie Couric somehow🙄 It was like watching a Formula 1 car ready to fire on all cylinders but being held back by a clumsy and imcompetent pit crew member. Katie Couric has great stories to tell from a 40 year career, that is the entire point with the book but that was totally lost on Sunny. Katie Couric is very transparent with the mistakes, brings them up herself, take responsibility for them and does'nt shy away from criticism. Sunny just does'nt have a clue, she never has.

[@danarzechula3769]

@@TitoTimTravels when does she not cause that's when I will watch the view

[@rebekkad.2092]

Katie would stab anyone in the back if they got in her way. She's a mean girl.

[@Be1smaht]

I dont know if mean girls admit they are mean

[@danarzechula3769]

@@Be1smaht they're mean not stupid!

[@ladybug5859]

Takes one to know one, biggers the caller

[@joehodgson2815]

A woman completely unafflicted by modesty

[@peterporkeresq.2817]

😅 What a compliment! Served with a backhand with a side of sauce.

[@telectronix1368]

Yes, it's important that a woman not recognise her skills or success and she must definitely not speak about it.

[@PocketMarmo04]

@@telectronix1368 This is not a feminist issue

[@compulsiverambler1352]

@@telectronix1368 Women are actually encouraged to boast, it's called being "strong and confident" whereas men are called vain and narcissists for exactly the same behaviour. This coming from a woman, I hate all the double standards against men. Not that Katie is boasting, I have no idea what the OP is talking about in accusing HER of it, but men actually get mocked for this more than women do and nobody cares because it's a man being criticised, just as nobody cares when men and boys are fat-shamed so it's somehow misconstrued that women get fat-shamed more than men even though the opposite is true when you do a count of all the times a man's weight is mentioned compared to the very few times anyone dares say anything about a woman's weight..

[@richardpatton2502]

I loved her on South Park…

[@frankrizzo739]

With all due respect Stephen, I don't really need this Clown Show to push my book! 🤣

[@geoffreyfeinberg9792]

Looks great.

[@hectormejia5533]

Katie Couric made a name for herself as an anchor on the Today show before jumping over to CBS and 60 Minutes.

[@Lemont321989]

Why put it all out there, Katie? - Stephen, have you heard of money?

[@T3A0000]

what is Katie Couric's biggest scoop? What did she do to be special? She is a reporter not a journalist

[@davidsalter4204]

What's the difference

[@ladybug5859]

They all are. No one studies journalism before they become a journalist she at least went to college and studied I think English and history or something like that

[@Ysmir_The_Ancient]

Being Nosy is not a good thing!

[@NewMessage]

Even the classy ones write tell-alls now, I guess. * sighs quietly *

[@roberthenleynola]

"Classy" and "tell-all" are pretty much exclusionary terms.

[@koraldavis3474]

The queen and goddess of news media

[@andrewpassow2712]

awesome. if it hasn't been said all ready

[@phyllispetras3369]

iS SHE ALLERGIC TO HER MASCARA????

[@fredricclack7137]

Confess- Rob Halford!

[@FleaBagBoogie]

I can watch only the 1st half hour of mornings shows. After that it TOTALLY SUCKS !!!!!!!!

[@roberthenleynola]

I just learned what is (in my eyes) the ONE redeeming quality of Katie Couric (and I'm not a fan). At lest she loved Jane Pauley ... that gives us one thing in common. I have always loved Jane Pauley, and I think she was head and shoulders above Katie Couric (for one). I also always admired her husband, Garry Trudeau (I love his cartoons, and I loved that political TV show he wrote a few years back). I often watch interviews on CBS Sunday Morning just to see Jane Pauley introduce them, whether I care about the subject or not. (Extreme Jane Pauley Admiration Syndrome, I guess.)

[@nicolecopland461]

I agree. Pauly was a serious, delightful journalist with great cadence and presence. I don't know what people see in Katie.

[@Mandrake591]

She’s high on her own gum fumes, and Colbert lands another softball interview! Was that an interview? No mention of Ann Curry, her buddy Matt Lauer, the scandal, the victims…………zzzzzzzzz.

[@bobmurica4174]

Let’s be honest, calling her a journalist is a bit of a stretch. She’s an out-of-touch left-winger that presented stories in a light that supported whatever left wing narrative was going at the time.

[@berkc06]

This section needs secretariat

[@laurelrobbins8673]

How does Katie look so good - she hasn’t aged at all! I used to love watching her co-host with Regis - she looks the same as she did then!

[@Be1smaht]

I've not liked that concept of " america's sweetheart"

[@deanwilliam459]

she roasted him.

[@jaysiegel4742]

part 1

[@illapache6530]

Yo killer finish 👩🏿‍🎤

[@williamhosp701]

Wahoowa to another UVA grad!

[@graeme9925]

Got the blood ring thing going on.. Has anyone seen H R C ????

[@mikelinklater6408]

"...all the masks..." Yeah, where's your mask? Kissing Stephen.. Wtf

[@rainstarr1]

I've never like Katie or Matt. She's kinda acting low key rude here.

[@pollytiks3885]

So, this is America’s Sweetheart.

[@louspowels7120]

holy shit can you not upload anything in _order?_

[@yvonnerolley9676]

speaks of self in 3rd person?

[@Obiter3]

Still such a hottie.

[@pakpala1]

I can't stand when these tell tit bits when they are trying to sell books....

[@erinnstreeter]

TIL the definition of 'hagiography.'

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

Does this woman age

[@barbaramccrary572]

One of the biggest hypocrites in the news business can't stand her

[@d.b.1176]

What a boring guest.

[@michaelparks7177]

😂

[@thesteveprichard]

Poor Stephen's boyfriend seems to have ripped off Stephen's right ear while giving him a "covid" shot in the fudge hole! Let's Go Brandon!

[@Thadude701]

WTF Steve? You ok

[@astilealavatica1404]

Try it, you'll like it! It's akin to a satisfying turd in reverse on repeat!

[@scottcrosby-art5490]

The hell are you sniffing?

[@zacharydavis4398]

D@mn 👀

[@Max-st8ig]

🤑