The former host of 'The Colbert Report' opened up to Jerry Seinfeld about why he wanted to quit his show, his new gig as host of 'The Late Show,' and much more.

Stephen Colbert was the featured guest on the season finale of Jerry Seinfeld's popular web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, during which the two jokesters cruised around Montclair, New Jersey, in a funky 1964 Morgan +4, stopped for lunch at Bluestone Coffee Group, and chatted about everything from a commercial Colbert was in before he was famous for the Nebraska bank FirsTier, to how they wished Steve McQueen were gay. 

But the news that's got everyone all abuzz? Colbert admitting that he was planning on leaving The Colbert Report even if he hadn't gotten the gig replacing David Letterman as host of The Late Show on CBS. "I was ready to stop," he told Seinfeld, "The Letterman thing fell in my lap."

Colbert has been playing his character—a ridiculously conservative pundit in the vein of Bill O'Reilly—ever since he joined The Daily Show in 1997. That's a long time to play one character, something Colbert pointed out to Seinfeld when he expressed surprise at Colbert being ready to quit.