Stephen Colbert and Wife Evelyn McGee-Colbert Announce New Cookbook Does This Taste Funny? Filled with Family Favorites

Stephen Colbert is moving from late-night television to your kitchen shelf.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the comedian revealed that he and his wife, Evelyn McGee-Colbert, will be releasing a cookbook this fall. 

Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves, out Sept. 17, took two years to create and is “made with love — and an enormous amount of butter,” said The Daily Show alum in a statement.

Evelyn "Evie" came out for a special Valentine's Day segment on her husband's show to break the big news. “We have a gift for each other tonight. Evie and I have written a cookbook,” Colbert said.

His wife then joked: “I think this cookbook should be an example of all couples for hope because I can't even chop celery without you telling me I doing it wrong."

“It was an act of love and she made it ugly!” the late-night host joked as they both expressed their excitement. 

The cookbook, published by Celadon Books, is full of the South Carolina natives’ “favorite recipes,” plus some from their loved ones. Dishes like Stephen’s Kindergarten Soup, Spicy Lemon Chicken Thighs and Colbert Bump Cocktail fill the pages of the book. All in all, more than 100 recipes honor the couple's Charleston roots, while other dishes touch on their current lives in New Jersey. 

On top of getting a taste for what the family likes to eat, readers will also get an inside look into the pair’s 30-year marriage and family dynamics with "informal at-home pictures."

The TV personality has demonstrated some kitchen skills alongside chef José Andrés and Jamie Oliver in cooking segments, but this is his first off-air culinary venture.

The couple first met at a showing of a musical in South Carolina and Colbert later revealed that he knew Evie was the one immediately, telling himself, "Her. That's your wife. You're going to marry her."

After seeing each other at the event, Evie and Colbert realized they had grown up together, he told his audience. That night, they "talked for two hours," Colbert said during a 2016 episode of his show, "and I was completely taken."

"I thought, 'She's just being nice to me,'" Colbert admitted. "'She's too beautiful, she's too perfect.'"

The late night host turned away for a minute while Evie was talking to someone else at the event, and was thrilled to find that "she was still there when I turned around," he told the audience. They wed in October 1993, before the talk show host became a household name.

While raising their three children — Madeleine, Peter and John — Colbert and Evie have also collaborated on a production company, Spartina Productions. Plus, in recent years, Evie has worked on The Late Show. When receiving an Emmy in 2021, Colbert said that Evie was his "rock" and a "huge part" of creating his show during Covid.

Does This Taste Funny?: Recipes Our Family Loves will publish on Sept. 17.