“You know, ladies and gentlemen, when Donald Trump first contracted the coronavirus, I thought that maybe, just maybe, he would emerge from this experience with a shred of humility,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of his Late Show monologue Tuesday night. “Because honestly, nothing would disarm his critics more than if he stood up and told the world, ‘I was wrong. I have learned my lesson. And I truly sympathize with the hundreds of thousands who have been gravely ill or lost their lives due to this pandemic.’” “But I forgot about one thing,” the host continued. “He never does […]
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With all of the fallout from the first presidential debate this week, Stephen Colbert almost forgot to make fun of Donald Trump Jr. for posting a seemingly drunken video that called on volunteers to “ENLIST NOW!” in the “Army for Trump.” Almost. “During the debate, Trump encouraged his followers to intimidate other voters by being a so-called ‘poll watcher,’” the Late Show host explained. “And now Don Jr.’s saying, ‘I’m helping too, Dad!’” Colbert then played the clip of the president’s eldest son looking rough and ragged as he told Trump supporters, “We need every able-bodied man and woman to join […]
Unlike other one-time members of Donald Trump’s inner circle who have released books in recent weeks, former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster’s Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World is noticeably devoid of dirt about the president. But that didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from trying to get it out of him when he appeared on The Late Show Monday night. The host’s first attempt came after McMaster spoke out against Chinese President Xi Jinping, by saying, “If you’re a dictator and you put people around you who tell you how great you are and what you want to hear, and […]
When comedian Robert Smigel appeared on The Last Laugh podcast early this summer, he revealed that his greatest creation, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, would almost certainly be entering the 2020 election fray—despite a deadly pandemic that had moved much of the campaign off the trail. On Wednesday night, he made good on that promise by delivering a hilarious focus group full of very real Trump supporters on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “The Trump presidency has been four years of him making shocking and hate-filled remarks,” Colbert said at the top. “I’ve often wondered, is there any message, is […]
On Tuesday, the unthinkable happened: Fox & Friends, the Trump-toadying morning show where the president gets his daily ego-stroke (and policy advice), dissed their biggest fan. And naturally, The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert couldn’t get enough of it. “Trump gets plenty of free airtime. This morning he phoned it in to his friendly friends on Fox & Friends,” offered Colbert by way of introduction. First, the late-night host rehashed how, in his new book Rage and in an exclusive clip that he debuted on The Late Show just last night, journalist Bob Woodward “proves that Trump lied to the American people […]
The hits keep coming from Rage author Bob Woodward, who premiered a new exclusive audio recording of President Donald Trump admitting behind closed doors how dangerous he knew the coronavirus to be long before he started taking it remotely seriously in public. “Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it,” Trump can be heard saying on the tape, which Woodward recorded on April 13th, 2020, and shared with Stephen Colbert for Monday night’s episode of The Late Show. The president goes on to tell what he apparently thought was a hilarious story about being in the Oval Office with […]
“I don’t know what’s going on, but I’ve got chills, I’ve got nausea,” Stephen Colbert told viewers at the top of his last live show of the week Thursday night. “It’s either the onset of COVID or seeing 1,500 people with no social distancing, no masks or testing packed on to the South Lawn of the White House. I know Republicans like voter suppression, I didn’t know they kicked it up to voter extinction.” While The Late Show host admitted that he skipped the third night of the Republican National Convention out of disgust for the GOP’s constant lies, he did […]
Stephen Colbert opened his show Wednesday night with a confession. “Now, full disclosure: I did not watch much of the convention tonight. And fullest disclosure: I did not watch any of it,” the Late Show host said. “Because right now in America, we’re facing a global pandemic that has killed 180,000 Americans, heavily armed Rambo wannabes are murdering people in our streets, the strongest hurricane in the history of the Gulf Coast is making landfall as I speak, and the RNC’s message is: Who’s up for four more years?” “I know by not watching the RNC I didn’t do my job […]
On Monday night, The Late Show’s Melania Trump—played brilliantly as always by Laura Benanti—previewed her big RNC speech by offering up this endorsement of her husband: “If there is one thing that’s absolutely clear to me, it is this: Despite our many differences we must come together for four more years of Donald Trump.” When Stephen Colbert asked her if that was from her upcoming speech, she replied, “No, those are the terms of my renegotiated prenup. Just four more years! Just four more years!” The host closed out his live monologue Tuesday night with a look at the actual first […]
Stephen Colbert admittedly had some trouble making fun of the Democratic National Convention last week. Thankfully, the Republican National Convention delivered him the gifts of Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. Going live after the RNC Monday night, The Late Show host began with the speech shouted into the void by “Trump Jr. girlfriend and vengeful banshee who will haunt your dreams, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who screamed this message of hope.” “If you want to see the socialist Biden-Harris future for our country, just take a look at California!” Guilfoyle exclaimed in her unhinged address. “I’m trying to look at California, but […]
On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert’s Late Show went live after the fourth and final night of the Democratic National Convention. And, reacting to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s convention-closing speech, where he made an impassioned plea for “a united America,” Colbert nearly jumped out of his chair with excitement. Then, the comedian got serious—and issued his own address of sorts to his viewers. “Well, here’s the deal,” the comic said. “Biden spoke for over 10 minutes and addressed all the pain that Trump has inflicted upon our country; all the possibilities for healing our nation. But most importantly, not once did […]
Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention left Stephen Colbert speechless. He had a lot more to say about Bill Clinton’s. In his second live Late Show of the week, Colbert broke down the biggest moments from night two of the DNC, or as he called it, “one of the most electrifying infomercials of the year.” Noting that the theme for the second night was “Leadership Matters,” he joked that the Republicans had already decided to rename night two of their convention, “All Qualities Matter.” The host’s sharpest commentary, however, came in response to the address delivered by former President […]
As the only late-night host to go live after the Democratic National Convention Monday night, Stephen Colbert had jokes ready about everything from John Kasich’s comical “crossroads” metaphor to Bernie Sanders delivering his speech in front of our “national strategic stockpile of firewood.” But when it came to the Michelle Obama barnburner that closed out the evening, the Late Show host just couldn’t bring himself to make fun of the former first lady. Early in his live monologue, Colbert admitted that he was “deeply moved” by the patriotic display that opened the first night of the DNC. “It’s because this feels […]
After a judge ruled that Mary Trump was free to speak openly about the revelations in her new best-selling book about her uncle Donald, Too Much and Never Enough, she has appeared on Good Morning America and The Daily Beast podcast The New Abnormal. On Wednesday night, she made her late-night television debut with Stephen Colbert. “Now before we get started, have you seen my show? Because I talk about your uncle a lot,” Colbert said. When she said yes, he asked, “Do you enjoy it? Are you OK with my show?” “I think it’s amazing, actually,” she replied. The appreciation […]
Of all the reasons Donald Trump has refused to wear a mask in public in the four-plus months since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S., high on the list must be fear of ridicule. That would explain why the few times he has supposedly worn a mask off-camera, he’s bragged about how good he looks and compared himself to the Lone Ranger. On Monday night, his worst nightmare came true. After making his first-ever public appearance in a mask at Walter Reed Hospital over the weekend, Trump was mercilessly mocked Monday night by Late Night host Seth Meyers. “Yesterday, according […]
At various points during the Trump campaign and presidency, Jon Stewart would emerge from beneath his old friend Stephen Colbert’s desk to deliver searing diatribes about the state of the political world. He returned to The Late Show Wednesday night ahead of the premiere of his new political satire movie Irresistible. But in the midst of a global pandemic and just a few months away from another presidential election, the mood was noticeably darker. Stewart, who joked that he was going “full Christopher Lloyd” during quarantine, said that the “politicization of basic hygiene” has been “one of the more surprising aspects” […]
TONIGHT, in a late night TV exclusive, @StephenAtHome interviews Former National Security Advisor @AmbJohnBolton in a wide ranging interview about his time in the Trump Administration and why, despite voting for him in 2016, the President won’t be getting his vote in 2020. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/xamMoo8uRU — A Late Show (@colbertlateshow) June 24, 2020 The long version: https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1275756796636999682?s=20 Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He […]
In an extremely rare walk back last week, President Donald Trump moved the date of his big Tulsa campaign rally so that it would no longer fall on Juneteenth, the day that commemorates the end of slavery. Then, he undid any sliver of good will he may have received by claiming that he is responsible for making that 150-year-old holiday famous. “While Trump had his mouth open anyway, a lot of other stupid stuff dribbled out,” Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show Thursday night before revealing the comments Trump made in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal. “Far […]
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace was on The Late Show Tuesday night to promote his new book on the atomic bomb. But Stephen Colbert really wanted to talk to him about this explosive moment in American politics. “Have you ever seen anything like the moment we’re going through right now?” Colbert asked at the top of the interview. “The only year that comes to mind is 1968,” Wallace replied. But even with everything going on then, he said, there wasn’t a global pandemic that has claimed over 100,000 American lives and led to economic collapse. “So that’s an added feature […]
At the end of a day in which Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was forced to excoriate his colleague Rand Paul (R-KY) for blocking an anti-lynching bill, he spoke frankly and emotionally about his own experience with racism and the police on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Booker began by saying he almost feels “embarrassed” that he wasn’t with the protesters in Lafayette Park this week to “confront what has been, in my opinion, in my lifetime, one of the greatest affronts of our most sacred principles and ideals.” For President Trump to speak “from one side of his mouth” about […]
“Well, we’re back after 10 days off,” Stephen Colbert said at the top of his Late Show monologue Monday night. “And I never imagined that after 10 days, a global pandemic would not be the lead story. Remember when we were all afraid of our groceries? I miss those days. No, the story that has pushed 100,000 Covid deaths below the fold is America’s preexisting condition: racism.” The host attempted some jokes about the mass protests that have followed the police killing of George Floyd, but it was harder than usual for him to break through the seriousness of the moment. […]
Alan Dershowotz has been laying relatively low during quarantine after he was implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal more than a year ago. That made his decision to appear as a guest this week on the Stephen Colbert-produced comedy show Tooning Out the News all the more baffling. And the cartoon hosts did not hold back in grilling him about his connections to the late billionaire pedophile. Noting that Dershowitz helped negotiate “what many considered to be a sweetheart plea deal” for Epstein with the Southern District of Florida in 2007, fictional Hot Take co-host Jonathan Keene asked, “Do you […]
Stephen Colbert opened his Late Show monologue Monday night with the day’s “startling admission” from President Donald Trump. “I’m taking it, hydroxychloroquine,” Trump told reporters. “A couple weeks ago I started taking it.” Asked why he’s taking it, the president added, “Because I think it’s good. I’ve heard a lot of good stories.” “Of course, that’s why anyone takes an experimental drug treatment,” Colbert said before presenting his own version of a pharmaceutical ad for the unproven treatment: “If you think hydroxycholoroquine might be right for you, don’t ask your doctor. Just ask around. And if you hear some good stories, […]
Last week, President Donald Trump took a break from overseeing the federal response to a deadly pandemic that has killed more than 85,000 people in the United States to date to tweet about the man he likes to call “no talent Stephen Colbert.” On Thursday night, Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen asked Colbert if he would want to interview Trump on The Late Show. Colbert reminded him that he actually did have Trump on his show back in September 2015, not long after he launched his presidential bid. “I did once,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to anymore.” He […]
Three days after May the 4th, the Trump campaign decided to embrace the dark side. “For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc,” the president’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted, along with a GIF of Darth Vader’s planet-destroying weapon. “In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time.” “First of all, Brad, it’s refreshingly honest of you to say you’re the people in Star Wars that were designed after the Nazis,” Late Show host Stephen Colbert said in response […]