WE'RE BACK WITH ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.

DID YOU, WHEN YOU DID IRON MAN YOU HAD THE CELEBRATED BEGINNING

TO YOUR ACTING AND YOUR PERFORMING CAREER.

AND JUST INCANDESCENTLY OUT OF THE GATE WITH SOME OF YOUR

PERFORMANCES, ESPECIALLY CHAPLIN.

AND THEN AS YOU SAID YOURSELF, YOU HAD A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE

YOU ASCENDED UP YOUR OWN SPHINCTER, YOU SAID, SOMETHING

ALONG THOSE LINES.

>> WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO GO, ROLL THE TAPE.

>> Stephen: JIM, CAN WE ROLL THAT BACK.

>> SPHINCTER.

>> Stephen: SO YOU DISAPPEAR

INTO YOURSELF FOR QUITE AWHILE, QUITE FAMOUSLY AND THEN YOU COME

BACK AT IRON MAN.

AND I KNOW YOU CAME BACK BEFORE THAT.

BUT THEN YOU MAKE THIS HUGE SPLASH AS IRON MAN, I REMEMBER

WATCHING THE SCREEN, WATCHING YOU DO IRON MAN, BEING BLOWN

AWAY BY THAT MOVIE GOING DAMMIT, GOOD FOR HIM BECAUSE THERE WAS

SO MUCH GOOD WILL FOR YOU.

DID YOU FEEL THAT GOOD WILL.

THAT PEOPLE WANTED YOU.

THEY WANTED ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. BACK?

THEY WANTED THAT YOUNG MAN WITH ALL THAT PROMISE TO EXPLODE AND

PAY OFF ALL THAT PROMISE WITH THESE AMAZING PERFORMANCES?

>> I DID.

AND I BELIEVED THAT WE HAPPENED TO BE, DESPITE CURRENT FEEDBACK

IN A VERY FORGIVING INDUSTRY.

YOU KNOW, I WAS REALLY FORTUNATE AND THAT I WAS PREINTERNET WITH

MUCH OF MY MISBEHAVIOR.

BUT I THINK I ALWAYS HAD A BIT OF A MORAL PSYCHOLOGY.

AND I ALWAYS WANTED TO KIND OF DO THE RIGHT THING.

WHICH DOESN'T COUNT FOR MUCH.

AND THEN I TOOK IT ON THE CHIN, YOU KNOW.

I THINK WHENEVER YOU GET HANDED A TRUE PERIOD OF HUMILIATION, I

THINK THAT WE, I WILL SPEAK FOR MY OWN EXPERIENCE SEEING IT WITH

OTHER PEOPLE, I GIVE THEM CRED FOR DUSTING THEMSELVES OFF.

AND I HATE TO SAY THIS, A VERY AMERICAN THING, YOU KNOW, TO

BUILD UP AND BREAK DOWN AND COME BACK.

IT IS, IN ITS OWN WEIRD WAY, IT IS A HERO'S JOURNEY, SO BY THE

WAY, I CAN RELATE TO TONY STARK A LOT BY THE TIME I PLAYED HIM.

A GUY WHO NEEDED TO REALLY BE HANDED A DOSE OF OUCH.

>> Stephen: ROBERT DOWNEY, JR., EVERYBODY.

WHEN WE COME BACK, TIFFANY HADDISH DOES THE COLBERT

QUESTIONERE

STICK AROUND.

>> "A LATE SHOW PRESENTS THE POST NFL RULE CHANGES FROM THE

PLAYERS IN THE SUPER BOWL.

>> MARIE KONDO RULE IF YOU CATCH THE BALL AND IT DOESN'T SPARK

JOY, YOU HAVE TO THROW IT AWAY.

>> RUNNING BACK CAN ONLY MOVE LIKE-- SORRY, I'M JUST REALLY

INTO THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT RIGHT NOW.

>> IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY TACKLE THE REF BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT HE

WAS A ZEBRA, NO PENALTY.

>> THIS HAS BEEN "A LATE SHOW PRESENTS PROPOSED NFL RULE

CHANGES FROM THE PLAYERS IN THE SUPER BOWL.