Stephen Colbert honored the late Diane Keaton on The Late Show Monday night by re-airing her delightfully unhinged 2012 Colbert Report appearance—one he called “one of my favorite interviews I ever had the privilege of doing.”

“This weekend, America lost one of our most talented, original, and effortlessly funny actors, Diane Keaton,” Colbert said at the top of the tribute. “A lifelong fan, I loved Diane Keaton ever since my mother made me walk out of Annie Hall when I was 11.”

He went on to recall that his Colbert Report alter ego “had the honor of attempting to interview her about her memoir, that she apparently had no interest in talking about. It was so charmingly chaotic.”

The Report clip—originally broadcast April 30, 2012, to promote Keaton’s memoir Then Again—was a perfect snapshot of Keaton’s disarming eccentricity and Colbert’s mock pompousness colliding in comic combustion.

When Colbert assured her he’d been “clothed” during a past White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Keaton shot back, “I don’t want to see your buck naked ass.” Later, when Colbert tried to steer her back to her book, she dryly replied, “Are we going to talk about me now?”—then accused him of being “a sexual pervert.”

Still, amid the chaos, Colbert managed to ask about her mother’s diaries, which inspired Then Again. “Did that humanize your mother for you?” he asked. “Because our parents are bigger than life. I don’t approve of that.”

By the end, Keaton was threatening to “bring you up on charges” and Colbert was mock–pleading, “You can’t leave until the cameras go off.”

Revisiting the interview more than a decade later, Colbert seemed genuinely moved. “Because, for reasons that are still unclear to me, the corporation has taken down all of my old show, in honor of Ms. Keaton, I thought I’d share it with you tonight,” he told viewers.

“Thank you, Ms. Keaton,” he added as the clip ended.

As Colbert alluded to, it was just last year that Paramount pulled down what had been a complete archive of his run on The Colbert Report, effectively wiping all but a few bootlegged clips off the internet. Last night’s re-airing of his interview with Keaton had the side benefit of restoring one of the show’s most delightfully unhinged moments to its rightful place in public view.

Watch the entire segment at the top of this post.