While he’s gearing up to take the stage next week for the 2026 Super Bowl LX halftime show, the biggest stage in music, Bad Bunny stopped by The Late Show on Wednesday night (Jan. 28) to take the vaunted Colbert Questionert in order to allow fans all over the world to know him just a bit better.
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Benito was very confident in a number of his answers, including the best sandwich, which he quickly responded was tripletas. And while he joked that “everything you want” can be piled on the popular street food sandwich staple in his native Puerto Rico, it typically features steak, pork and ham served on toasted bread with mayo, ketchup, cheese and crispy potato sticks.
But he was also kind of silly, such as when Colbert asked him to describe his first concert. Benito said it was a a series of traditional free street festivals, Fiestas Patronales, in his native P.R., which, by the way, he has never performed at. Colbert seemed charmed by many of the answers, including the scariest animal (la cucaracha — a cockroach), and what Benito thinks happens when we die: “I dunno, they bury us?”
You better believe his favorite action movie is the beloved 1983 Brian De Palma drug crime epic Scarface — star Al Pacino made a cameo in the 2023 video for BB’s “Monaco” single. His favorite smells are the odors of Christmas, including cinnamon and the pine-y tree, which made sense since he said his earliest memory is of Christmas, but also a mystery girl in a picture book he loved as a four-year-old who was his first crush. When it comes to his least-favorite smell, Benito slipped into Spanish and sheepishly said “caca,” which needed no translation.
Benito also confidently said he prefers dogs over cats, but when pressed if he had a pooch at home he confusingly said, “I don’t know.” As for the one song he would listen to for the rest of his life, BB was stumped, but after a long think he said it would have to be 1969’s “Marejada Feliz” by Puerto Rican percussion legend Roberto Roena.
And then, for the final thinker of a question, Benito described the rest of his life in five words thusly: “happy, retired, eating and living in Puerto Rico.”
Bad Bunny will perform during halftime of the Feb. 8 Super Bowl in Santa Clara, Calif.
Watch Bad Bunny on The Late Show below.
