Stephen Colbert: My emotional interview with Joe Biden helped me find my Late Show voice

The Washington Post

The then-vice president's teary interview shortly after The Late Show premiered in September 2015, talking about the loss of his son, Beau, helped Colbert break away from his Colbert Report character. “Only I, my real self, could have received what Mr. Biden was willing to share with me and with the audience,” Colbert told Jon Stewart during last night's Late Show.