Stephen Colbert is still mad that Dermot Mulroney was cooler than he was in college. The two performers attended highly-regarded Northwestern University at the same time, a school where Colbert says the two were “friend adjacent” rather than friends. Colbert revealed he still has some ire about not making the cut for a certain campus improv show. Mulroney has no such regrets: he made it, to Colbert’s professed chagrin.
Colbert has done okay for himself since, you might say. As has Mulroney, of course. But Colbert still saw having Mulroney on his show as an opportunity to show Mulroney’s first big role post-college — in a CBS TV movie of the week. It was his breakthrough role and Colbert figured to embarrass the veteran actor by showing him as a green young thing. But guess what? Mulroney comes off very well for a TV role 30 years ago. As Mulroney says himself after watching his portrayal of an afflicted teen: “it still resonates today.” It really does. Check it out below. Mulroney is starring in the new drama Pure Genius, which airs Thursdays at 10pm on CBS
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