For my Robert Mueller. He knows an unstoppable move, f. B. I. Investigation aaahhh ahhh President Trump is running away dont worry, ill go after President Trump and his cronies, ive got to catch em all got to catch them all, pokeemon . Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Stephen welcomes josh gad, Lawrence Odonnell and derek delgaudio, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen whoo cheers and applause band playing absolutely wonderful hey cheers and applause be gentle thank you, ladies and gentlemen. There you go. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Im so glad to be with you tonight. So wonderful to be here. cheers and applause because ive been feeling an emptiness, a great void, but it left the country on friday. laughter applause donald trump is on a 13day trip through asia. Fox and friends has one less viewer. laughter on his way to asia, he stopped off in hawaii. Of course, thats obamas home state. Hes very popular there, so people there didnt want to say to trump, aloha. They wanted to say, aloha. laughter look it up. piano riff applause trump flew to a u. S. Airbase outside tokyo to deliver a strong message to americas enemies no one, no dictator, no regime and no nation should underestimate ever american resolve. Every once in awhile in the past they underestimated us. It was not pleasant for them, was it . cheering it was not pleasant. Stephen anyone who messes with us gets whats coming to them. Just ask japan. Whats that . Where am i right now . laughter applause sorry. Oopsy daisy. After that, it was time for trump to meet with japanese Prime Minister and guy who really thought hed be talking to Hillary Clinton right now, shinzo abe. Now, with the north korea situation heating up, japan really needs the u. S. On its side. So abe launched a full friendship offensive. First, he made their b. F. F. Status official by speaking trumps native language hat laughter it says, donald and shinzo make Alliance Even greater. laughter yeah. Thats perfect. We all know, historians know all the best diplomacy was accomplished via head gear. Dont forget the great gear roosevelt gave out at yalta. laughter then the two best friends fed the coy fish at the royal palace. Feeding the koi is a time honored tradition, much like the tea service, wherein the meditation of the movement is resonant with the shinto okay, suck on it, you fat fish. laughter applause there you go. There you go. Pretty good. Then abe really turned on the charm offensive, treating trump to a round of golf then reminding donald about it at that nights reception. When you play golf with someone not just once but for two times, the person must be your favorite guy. Stephen alright, shinzo, leave some of the strokes on the golf course. laughter jon oh clarence thomas. applause stephen and trump has shown concern over Japans National security. When asked about the missiles that north korea has been firing over japan, trump said he didnt get why a country of samurai warriors did not shoot down the missiles. Doesnt have to be a samurai, could be a ninja, a power ranger, godzilla. Mr. Miyagi. laughter wax on, wax off. cheers and applause piano riff meanwhile, remember when we thought george w. Bush was a bad president . chuckles chuckles good times. laughter well, you can relive them now, because theres a new book about w and h. W. , called the last republicans. Seen here looking lovingly at Donald Trumps poll numbers. laughter these two former president s has harsh words for our commander in chief. H. W. Says, i dont like him. I dont know much about him, but i know hes a blowhard. cheers and applause oh, then you know a lot about him. laughter bush, the son, was no kinder, saying of trump, this guy doesnt know what it means to be president. Yes, trumps always out there saying dumb stuff, while george bush is a statesman who gave the nation stirring and dignified words i know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully. laughter stephen say what you will, say what you will. Jon that was a real thing, though. He was speaking the truth. Stephen there has not been a single war with trout since his presidency. laughter applause of course, the white house fired back at the bushes, declaring, if one president ial candidate can disassemble a political party, it speaks volumes about how strong a legacy its past two president s really had. What . Thats like saying, hey, if one affair with a secretary can destroy this marriage, you must not have been a very good wife. laughter but, since trump was overseas and i cant believe im about to say this he was more restrained, saying, ill comment after we come back. I dont need headlines. laughter first of all, you need headlines like you need oxygen. laughter but im surprised hes not firing back. No tweets for 13 days . Hes going to get bluebirds. Dangerous cheers and applause its true. Its real. Its dangerous. applause none of this is helping trumps popularity. He now has the lowest Approval Rating in modern times. Very important. Modern times. In ancient times, things were much worse. Julius caesars Approval Rating was stab, stab, stab. laughter and no one no one no one has summed up the mood of the country better than a cyclist who went viral last week for giving the president s motorcade the finger. cheers and applause long may she wave. Her name is juli briskman, and she just got fired for flipping off trumps motorcade. audience reacts but if you cant give people the finger in traffic, then whats the point of driving . laughter thats how we say hello in new york laughter especially if youre from out of town. Hey, welcome to manhattan laughter now, after this photo went viral, juli reposted it to her own facebook and told her employer, a Government Contractor named akima, l. L. C. , that she was the woman in the picture. In response, they said, were separating from you. Basically, you cannot have lewd or obscene things in your social media. hey, if youre not supposed to be lewd on social media, how come the middle finger emoji comes in five different colors . cheers and applause truly, were living dr. Kings dream. Weve got a great show for you tonight. Josh gad is here but when we come back, is Michael Flynn headed to jail . The answer wont surprise you. 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Stephen its nice to be here and doing the show and wonderful to be with these people and these people out there, too. cheers and applause jon yes. Yes, good to be together in these times. Stephen its important to be together. The world is a harrowing place and sometimes you just dont know what to say about it. For instance, i havent the slightest idea how to adequately address the attack in sutherland springs, texas yesterday. People on a sunday going to love and serve the lord gunned down by a mad man with a semiautomatic weapon and body armor. We are 35 days away from the largest mass killing in American History in tha las vegas. Still dont know why that happened if well ever know, or if anyone can ever explain why any of this happens. Everyone is heart broken when this happens, and you want to do something but nothing gets done. No one does anything. And that seems insane. And it can make you feel hopeless. Now, i dont know what to do, but i know hopelessness is not the answer. Jon no, no. Stephen you cannot give up in the face cheers and applause of evil. Nothing gets done about what happened in las vegas, they cant even pass a restriction on gun stocks, those bump stocks that turn a semiautomatic weapon into an almost fully automatic weapon, that died, nobodys talking about that. Nothing gets done to control guns that kill 10,000 people around america, not just in these mass killings. Doing nothing, as i said before, is unacceptable, but its unnatural. Its inhuman. Jon right. Stephen it just goes against our nature. We want to fix things. You want to respond to something terrible like this, not just know but at anytime in human history. 5,000 years ago, if your village had a tiger coming into it every day and was eating people, you would do nothing. You would move the village, build a fence or kill the tiger. You wouldnt say, well, i guess, you know, someones going to get eaten every day because the price of liberty is tigers. Jon no. Stephen you take some action. This hopelessness, this powerfulness you feel when nothing gets done is something you cant give into because i think there are some truly evil people out there who want you to feel pourless just for a buck because if you feel powerless enough, you know what might make you feel more powerful . Buying a gun. Its a vicious cycle. Violence happens, nothing is done to get rid of the guns, people buy guns to protect themselves and more violence out on the street. This guy wasnt supposed to be able to buy a gun but a but he did, because theyre out there on the market, these semiautomatic rifing. Theres one power you must never forget and that is you can go vote in 2018. cheers and applause vote for someone who will do something because this is an active evil and the only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. applause stephen meanwhile, in lighter news, another member of the Trump Campaign is in trouble for ties to russia. This time, its former Trump National security adviser and guy who just cant get those reporters off his lawn, Michael Flynn. laughter reportedly, special prosecutor Robert Mueller now has enough evidence to bring charges against flynn. cheers and applause honestly, he shouldve seen this coming. I mean, we all remember what flynn said about Hillary Clinton at the r. N. C. Last year. If i a guy who knows this business if i did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. Stephen he just got the date wrong. cheers and applause about 14, 15 months off. Now, the Mueller Investigation hasnt just ensnared Michael Flynn. The noose is also tightening around flynns son and hip hop fan who has never listened to the lyrics, Michael Flynn, jr. After it came out that mueller could charge him and his dad, this weekend flynn, jr. Tweeted, the social justice warriors are out in full this morning. The disappointment on your faces when i dont go to jail will be worth all your harassment. Ah, good old unchecked hubris, that always works out. Its like the old story of icarus he and his father flew too close to the sun. And then just kept on flying with their cool new sun tans. You know who else has had a bad week . Papa johns c. E. O. And osmond brother who cant sing, john schnatter. laughter applause last week, daddy schnatter blamed his companys declining sales on the n. F. L. s National Anthem protests, saying the controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country. The n. F. L. Has hurt papa johns shareholders. laughter yeah. People started throwing pizza shade at schnatter, including digiornos, which posted tweets like, us papa johns let us know when you have new pizza, and pizza slice, upwards chart. Them pizza slice, downwards chart. Damn oh that tweets not delivery, its duhevastating laughter cheers and applause piano riff jon i like that yeah stephen by the way, this chart right here, this is how they explain economics to donald trump right there. laughter there hasnt been a digiorno burn that bad since every time a stoner forgot they put one in the oven. laughter but there is one growth demographic for papa johns pizza sales altright White Supremacists who have claimed papa johns as their official pizza. audience reacts im surprised. I thought it would be uncle adolfs master race pizza. You will nazi a better slice. cheers and applause laughter piano riff delicious. But papa john doesnt want that kind of support, saying, we condemn racism in all forms and any and all hate groups that support it. We do not want these individuals or groups to buy our pizza. All right. No, pizza for you, racists. Garlic cheddar knots, however, are up for grabs. 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Stephen beautiful cheers and applause goes, you know my first guest from frozen, beauty and the beast, and the book of mormon. He does a little less singing in murder on the Orient Express. You stole from me thought you would be found out, that is why you killed him yeah. Yeah, youre damn right i stole from him. Thousands. I knew his money wasnt honest. What did it matter if i skimmed some off the top . But let me ask you a question why would i slaughter my cash cow . I didnt do it i didnt kill him stephen i think he did whispering . Please welcome josh gad cheers and applause band playing you totally killed him. Can i just Say Something before we begin in all this . You are so brilliant. I was listening to your speech backstage. cheers and applause amazing what youre doing. Stephen nice of you to say. You know whats brilliant . No, tell me. Stephen olaf from frozen. There he is, flying cheers and applause stephen this is a milestone in an artists career. So few more people landed on their moon than have their own macys thanksgiving day parade balloon. Is that true . Stephen we looked it up. More people have landed on the moon than have their own balloon. Youre thenaut. Im so sorry to n. A. S. A. About this fact. I feel like there needs to be a Stephen Colbert balloon as well would that be weird . Stephen im working on it. You should have one. cheers and applause stephen this year is the first time . This is going to be this year for the first time ever, olaf will be flying in the macys thanksgiving day parade. As a kid, i would watch this all the time, and i was never, like, one day, ill be a snowman, and that snowman will have his own balloon who would have thought that . laughter stephen yeah, if this has never been in the parade before, what are we seeing . I think olaf was just, like, im not gonna wait any longer, im gonna go fly stephen you get to ride in it the whole way. Is this the entire time. Im up there piloting it. This is crazy wow stephen lot of responsibility. Who wants to get knocked out of the parade, bullwinkle, pokeemon pokeemon, after playing the game relentlessly last year and watching your cold opening, i think its time for him to go laughter stephen yeah, probably, probably. So heres the deal, youre olafs voice in frozen. Youve done five other projects. As olaf. Stephen but the sequel hasnt come out yet. Dont you think you would have heard about that if it had come out . Stephen laughter stephen there might have been an ad or two. The sequel nobodys seen. Stephen disney doesnt like to advertise. No, they dont have the money for that. laughter no, were working on it. Stephen what are the other five things . There are all these frozen shorts. One is called olafs frozen adventure in front of cocoa, the pixar movie. Stephen is there a olaf chip in your neck so they can throw a bag over your head and drag you off thats vie whrent. I dont do that. Thats excessive. I do it all the time to my kids. I read constantly to them. I read them frozen. Stephen how old are your children . None of your business. Stephen it makes a difference on whether they are of target age for frozen. 22 and 25, stephen. Stephen really . You look fantastic. 58, brother. 58. Stephen you have to send me your moisturizer regimen. 3 and 6. Stephen boys, girls . Both girls. Stephen they all want to be elsa, anna. Nobody wants to be me in my household. Its sad. laughter stephen you were the reindeer or the big frost monster. laughter do you Read Everything as olaf . Well, its my voice, so i really applause stephen i know that i know that surprise stephen go ahead. twas the night before christmas laughter wait, wait, close your eyes. Four score and seven years ago laughter stephen yeah, they say lincoln actually sounded like that. Ready . Im Freddy Krueger laughter so sad. Stephen very nice. Are they saying do it as olaf or read as daddy . They say read as daddy, not as olaf. Im, like, i dont decipher between the two. Its me, daddy and daddy makes one choice laughter daddy doesnt have a character. Daddy is a character daddy is a character stephen okay, so, now, ive got to thank you for something. We had the puberme challenge, where we raised money for puerto rico. cheers and applause thank you. Stephen so you joined in the puberme challenge and we gave 1,000 to puerto rico for every person who joined in. And this is your pur puberme look at that. cheers and applause where is this . Yeah, this is in just another south florida bar mitzvah right there. Stephen is this your bar mitzvah . No, i wouldnt wear that to my bar mitzvah. I had a drum themed hat for my bar mits virginia but this is me hitting the bar mitzvah circuit and this is called cool despite the acne look. Stephen were you big on the circuit . Huge on the circuit. I was the bar mitzvah circuit. Stephen until you got there, they werent officially a man. laughter they were still 12 and a half every time. Stephen youve made a big turn in your career because i think of you as a very gifted comedic actor thank you. Stephen but now murder on the Orient Express. Murder on the Orient Express stephen right, right, that one. cheers and applause Orient Express. Stephen thats how olaf would say it . Murder on the laughter stephen so this is drama. Yes. Stephen this is full drama. Yes. Stephen like, i totally bought you as dramatic in that scene. That quite surprised me. Thanks, stephen. Stephen youre a very gifted comedic. I think you could do a brilliant drama. Stephen im frequently not funny. No but i study drama and now its fun stephen where did you study drama . I studied acting dramatic at Carnegie Mellon university but this is full circle for me. You dont believe i can do serious roles. I see it in your eye. Stephen Say Something like, i love you i love you. laughter wait, let me try it again. Stephen let me try it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go. Stephen what did i do . No. Stephen what part of that what did i do . No, its not you. Its me. laughter no, here. Here. applause laughter stephen i love you. I know. cheers and applause murder on the Orient Express opens friday josh gad, everybody well be right back with Lawrence Odonnell. cheers and applause band playing you are my best friend and weve got some things to do do you wanna, do you wanna, do you wanna do you wanna, do you wanna, do you wanna yeaheaeaeah when youre close to the people you love, does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. Taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. With taltz, up to 90 of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. 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When it comes to frequent heartburn, trust nexium 24hr. Behold the power of energizer® ultimate lithium™. Music the 1 longestlasting battery. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, everybody, welcome back to the show cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, welcome back, folks. My next guest is a political commentator and host of msnbcs the last word. Please welcome Lawrence Odonnell. cheers and applause band playing stephen thanks for being back. Thank you very much. Stephen how you been . Uh, under pressure. Stephen under pressure . Yeah. Stephen why are you under extreme pressure . Because were covering the most extremely strange presidency in history. Stephen thats true, very strange. And, uh and we do it live at 10 00 on my show, and what that means is we used to be able to start writing this show at 3 00. Stephen yeah, yeah. And now you start writing it about 5 minutes to 10 00 because the tweets are coming in like crazy. Stephen and change the news cycle completely. Not to mention the indictments that come in. Stephen yeah. O were getting shaken up all the time. Stephen i kind of like hat the president is in asia 1 hours ahead for the next, like, week and a half because, when were writing our show, hes asleep. Yes. Stephen he cant change the news cycle because we tape around 5 30 in the evening. You know how little he sleeps. Hes a serious insomniac so i imagine on this trip you cant rely on that. Stephen they must give him a little something. You think so . The president of the United States . Stephen you cant give a sleeping pillow the president . You would know. I would not know. Stephen why wouldnt you know . You wrote on west wing. Thats correct, i did. And we never lets see, 154 episodes, i cant remember how many sleeping pill episodes there were. I dont remember martin i dont know, maybe he did. laughter stephen so that was a fantasy, even in its day, it was like liberal government fantasy porn. laughter but there were crazy story lines in that. Was there anything you guys wrote that was anything as crazy as the story lines were getting now . Oh, every single thing thats happened probably in the last two years of our politics, i would have been sitting in the west wing saying, no, no, that cant happen. I would have shot down every you know, reality show guy runs for president. I go, no, no, it cant happen stephen he wins that destroys drama. Fictional Television Drama about a white house is now destroyed because there is absolutely no gravity to it. Stephen lawrence, pretty good for comedy, though. Its very good for comedy. cheers and applause not fair. Stephen sorry. Not fair. Stephen you have a badge of honor, if thats what it is, in that you were one of the first tv political pundits, if you dont mind that term, to be attacked by the president in 2015. I hear that dopey pundit Lawrence Odonnell, one of the dumber people on television, is about to lose his show. No ratings, too bad. And then even better i heard since his show sun watchable that lawrence made many false statements about me, maybe i should sue him . Thats my space in twitter history. Im the first person, i think the only tv person he threatened to sue on twitter. Stephen really . Yeah. applause stephen did he sue you . He didnt sue me. He saved all the lawyers fees to sue bill mahr, and the young through it out and said it was silly. I begged him to sue me after that. Stephen im next. He wont even tweet about me applause thats fascinating he wont tweet about you. What do you have to do to get him to tweet about you . You havent gone far enough. Stephen Say Something nice about him . I guess so. That would do it. laughter stephen not gonna happen. cheers and applause all right, now weve got a new book here, its called playing with fire about the campaign of 1968. What today can we learn about the transformation of our politics . Anything we can learn and todays politics . We can see all of the precedents that occurred in 1968 which is kind of where our modern politics began for what we just saw in the last campaign. George wallaces Campaign Manager, he was the segregationist alabama governor running as abindependent in 1968, his Campaign Manager told me last year when he heard trump speak as a candidate, he was hearing george wallace. It was pretty much the same thing. George wallace was the very first candidate who used the protesters in his audience to show how tough he is. He would yell right back at them and fight with them, and the second one to do that was donald trump. No one in between thought fighting with the protesters in the audience was a good way to present himself. Stephen now, you say in the first sentence, you talk about roger ailes meeting Richard Nixon in 1968. Why start there . Because roger ailes met Richard Nixon in a show like this in a makeup chair when Richard Nixon was beginning his president ial campaign. Nixon loves this guy ailes who seems to know about tv, pulls him into his campaign out of show business into politics. Ailes gets nixon elected, gets reagan elected, george h. W. Bush get elected, then creates fox news. If Richard Nixon had not met roger ailes in that mike douglas makeup chair, we dont know who the president of the United States would be today because roger ailes created this amazingly effective Republican Television news station called fox news which supported trump all the way and without that i dont believe donald trump would have made the Electoral College outcome go his way. 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Tmobiles unlimited now includes netflix on us. Thats right. Netflix on us. Get 4 unlimited lines for just 40 bucks each. Taxes and fees included. And now netflix included. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, everybody welcome back cheers and applause my next guest is widely considered to be one of the most unique and talented magicians of his generation. Please welcome, derek delgaudio. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, well, thanks for being here. Thank you for having me. Stephen people out there may not know who you are. Im certain of that. Stephen you are doing a show in a small theater in new york. Whats the name of that . The Daryl Roth Theater is that the Daryl Roth Theater. The show is called in and of itself. 100 people, 120 people, how many people in the audience . Haas anyone here seen the show . applause two people. How many people in the audience every night . 150 people. Very intimate. Stephen okay. How would you describe the show before i give my own opinion of it here . It is sort of a theatrical existential crisis, i guess. Stephen right, because you start off the show, and i dont want to give it away because its just the beginning, of telling the story of somebody telling you a story. Yeah. Stephen and if doing so labels you as something. Correct, someone tells me kind of a cautionary tale and then they tell me that i am the hero of that story. Stephen mmhmm. And the show and i dont want to give anything away, because there is magic involved in the show, though i would not call it a magic show. It seems like a oneman theatrical piece that uses magic to illustrate points about personal identity and what is real and what is not real. Yeah. In this show, magic and illusion are used as sort of a metaphor for identity and the things that we can and cannot see about each other. Stephen and had the most extraordinary experience in this show. I had never had this before. Is that i have been to shows that deeply moved me but i had never been to the end of the show where i didnt want to move or even applaud because i was so captured by the last moments of this play that i felt like there was a thin layer of still air all around my body that i didnt want to disrupt. Is that why you werent applauding . laughter stephen you were watching. Okay, yes. No, thats something i had to get over was not having people applaud because, as a performer over the years, you get used to hopefully people applauding and reacting and having a good time. But with this show, theres a very strange reaction where people do, they have this moment where they kind of just want to sit in it and they dont know whether its appropriate to laugh or applaud because the show is constructed so youre not reallyture what youre seeing. Thats what its about, youre not entirely sure who you are or we as the audience members are. Yes. Stephen can i show this much to let people know . Yes. Stephen when you first come into the theater, there is a large board on which there are there must be well over a thousand cards. Yes. Stephen well over a thousand cards. And the cards, let me hold one up like this, they say, i am, on etch of the cards, and then have a different thing like i am a beekeeper, i am an immigrant, and its all done alphabetically. Yes. Stephen and this is the one i chose. laughter why do you want the audience to make that choice . Because, as i mentioned, its an existential crisis. I want people to start with the crisis of defining yourself with one label. What are you going to call yourself in this world and other people to see you as . The show begins as people even enter the theater and theyre forced with this confrontation, a choice of who am i, how do i want to be seen and how do i see myself, and that choice is a pretty heavy choice. Stephen you watch people on stage, one particular person on stage and its different every night go through a transformation as to who they are to themselves and us. Yes, and that can be pretty powerful depending on the night. Ive seen people step on stage saying they dont have a father and leave the stage saying that they do and meaning it, you know, and, so, theres really some incredible transformations that happen with people because we realize these labels that we give ourselves and give each other are the limitations at we have. Stephen well, listen, i wish we could tell you more other than i hope you get from this mans conversation the college of thought that goes into the show and i cant begin to tell you the quality of the magic. Go see it. It will make sense to well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . We can now repair complex at saortic aneurysmsare, without invasive surgery. If we can do that, imagine what we can do for varicose veins. And if we can precisely treat eye cancer with minimal damage to the rest of the eye, imagine what we can do for glaucoma, even cataracts. If we can use dna to diagnose the rarest of diseases, imagine what we can do for the conditions that affect us all. Imagine what we can do for you. Stephen thats it for the late show, everybody. Tune in tomorrow when my guests will be jason segal, and musical guest mavis staples. Now, stick around for an allnew james corden. Good night captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org are you ready yall to have some fun feel the love tonight dont you worry bout where it is you come from itll be all right its the late, late show ladies and gentlemen, all the