Here we choochoochoose to believe in the constitution. Isnt that bananas . Yeah hey, its the loch ness monster. I had a perfect phone call. Oh, boy. Im full of steam. But hes full of whistle blowing its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight in syrias trouble. Plus, stephen welcomes ronan farrow and Andrea Savage featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen come on wooo hi we made it we made it nice perfect thank you, everybody. Please, have a seat. Ladies and gentlemen, one and all, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well it is another yet, yet another bewildering day in america up is down, right is wrong, trump is president. Ill tell you one thing, you have got to hand it to the guy, hes willing to call his most disastrous blunders his greatest victories. If he were in charge of the hindenberg, it would have sounded like this and the back motors are just holding enough to keep it in place. And another ontime arrival oh, the victory stephen case in point trumps complete betrayal of our kurdish allies after his phone call with turkish president erdogan. This is so despised on both sides of the aisle that the house voted to condemn trumps actions 35460. That is the sort of bipartisanship you only see in, like, naming a post office. In fact, Congress Just approved the Donald Trumps syria policy sucks forever stamp. Now, it can be cheers and applause it can be it can be argued that getting out of the endless wars in the middle east is not a bad thing. I understand that part. But the way trump did this, make no mistake who wins here his buddy vladimir putin, who yesterday met with erdogan to carve up syria like a christmas shawarma. So, naturally, this morning trump gave a selfcongratulatory speech from the white house and claimed others were congratulating him, too. Todays announcement validates our course of action with turkey that only a couple of weeks ago were scorned. And now people are saying wow, what a great outcome. Congratulations. Stephen as trump yes, a lot of people are saying, wow, what a great outcome. Congratulations specifically, erdogan and putin. They keep saying it to each other and giggling. Then immediately he took the congratulations back. People are saying wow, what a great outcome. Congratulations. Its too early to me to be congratulated, but weve done a good job. Weve saved a lot of lives. Stephen as trump please, people, i just made up. Its too early to congratulate me. Oh, what . You already got me this cake i ordered for myself . laughter wow. What a great outcome. Congratulations. Now, trump declared a Permanent Peace in the region, kind of, sort of. The government of turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in syria and making the ceasefire permanent, and it will, indeed, be permanent. However, you would also define the word permanent in that part of the world as somewhat questionable. laughter stephen way to undercut yourself during an announcement. as trump we have achieved Permanent Peace by which i mean, a very temporary peace. That is my promise by which i mean, my suggestion. Really just spitballing here. Point is, wars over. Lets go forcibly kiss a nurse in times square. And trump made one thing clear this is our fake victory, and were not sharing this was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else. No other nation, very simple. Stephen as trump just remember, when you write it down in the history books, it was my idea, and mine alone, to give turkey and russia everything they wanted. laughter then trump bragged about this new buffer zone between the Turkish Border and the kurds. We are achieving a much more peaceful and stable area between turkey and syria, including a 20milewide safe zone. An interesting term, safe zone. Thats the term we are using. Hopefully, that zone will become safe. Thousands and thousands of people have been killed in that zone over the years. laughter laughter stephen that doesnt actually sound that safe. Mayba maybe we should call it the danger zone. I hear theres a highway that goes straight to that. Trump spoke about his decision to abandon American Allies like a goth poetry teen. Let someone else fight over this longbloodstained sand. Stephen fun fact bloodstained sand also the paint swatch they use for trumps face. laughter cheers and applause its a good match. Jon similar color. I see that. Stephen then trump praised our kurdish allies for retreating to an area that our enemies told us it was okay. The american delegation negotiated the original fiveday ceasefire that ended kurdish fighters to safely leave. It just got them to a point where, frankly, they were able to it enabled them to get out, to go and move, really, just a few miles in a slightly different direction. laughter stephen so we lost them . We dont know where as trump the kurds got out, but i will never, ever get out of this sentence, which is going tremendously, by the way, a lot of people calling up and saying, wow, great sentence. Congratulations on such a subjectverb gumbo. The president gumbo, right, jon . The president assured the public the president assured the public that isis prisoners have been contained you know, ish. General masloom has assured me that isis is under very, very strict lock and key. And the detention facilities are being strongly maintained. There were a few that got out, a small number, relatively speaking. Stephen what . Hold on. A few got out . Then they arent under strict lock and key i wouldnt send my toddler to a daycare that advertises children are safe under lock and key. A few got out, but a very small number, relatively speaking. laughter applause of course theyll clean that up. Of course, trumps focus on the disaster in syria is just a transparent attempt to distract us from the disaster of his impeachment. Things got way worse yesterday, thanks to a bombshell testimony from former ambassador to ukraine and guy cornering you at a party to tell you about recumbent biking its more efficient bill taylor. Ill tell you all about it in tonights edition of don and the giant impeach. I made a perfect call. Not a good call. A perfect call. laughter stephen the big headline from yesterdays testimony was that taylor directly tied trump to ukraine quid pro quo. Not only is that incredibly damning, its also the vocal warm up i use before the show every night. Ukraine quid pro quo, ukraine quid pro quo. Zelensky portendskys the end of your presidensky. cheers and applause red leather, yellow leather. Amidst the mist of frost. Florida representative Debbie Wasserman schultz described taylors testimony, its like if you had a big, 1,000piece puzzle on a table. This fills in a lot of the pieces of the puzzle. Okay, i get the analogy, but isnt it more like a childs sevenpiece puzzle of a squirrel, and we just got one piece atshe ente squirrel. Everything else is tree, and its just all nuts. After in there. Now, after taylors testimony, the white house released this statement, President Trump has done nothing wrong. This is a coordinated Smear Campaign from farleft lawmakers and radical, unelected bureaucrats waging war on the constitution. Yes bill taylor is just a radical, unelected bureaucrat i mean, look at the pinko who appointed him mike pompeo. Okay okay, but this was his second time as ukrainian ambassador. The first time he served, he was appointed by radical lefty george w. Bush. Okay, fine. But who originally gave him a job in the state department . None other than deep state kommisar Ronald Reagan okay, but may i remind you, i am all out of arguments. Checkmate. Now, trumps allies applause trumps allies also jumped to his defense, including former acting attorney general and lex loser, matt whitaker. laughter whitaker went on the fox and news and said this im a former prosecutor, and what i know is, this is a perfect time for preliminary hearings where you would say, show us your evidence. What evidence of a crime do you have . I mean, the constitution sort of you know, abuse of power is not a crime. Stephen we at the late show wanted to make sure we got the legal facts right, so we hired a team of 15 researchers and gave them all day to look into this. And while they were on the way to the office, i googled it on my phone, and it turns out that, yeah, abuse of power is definitely a crime. Also, fun fact, in the federalist papers, Alexander Hamilton wrote that one cause for impeachment is the abuse or violation of some public trust. Thats coming straight from hamilton. So trump might be impeached and win a tony cheers and applause look at that. Jon look at it. Stephen winwin. Another trump defender was california congressman devin nunes, who said this of taylors testimony ive defined it as watching a slowmotion crazy train that is going into impeachment fantasyland looking for the loch ness monster. Stephen which is funny, because ive defined nunes as watching an insane jetski careening off of Jackass Mountain into mixed metaphor lake. laughter now the g. O. P. The gop the g. O. P. Is having so much trouble defending trumps behavior that today, instead of addressing any of the charges, House Republicans stormed a closed door hearing to protest democrats impeachment inquiry process. Its like when youre on the debate team and the other side is really strong in the crossexamination, so for your counterpoint, you set fire to their coach. We have a picture of the storming. Thats either a bunch of republican lawmakers or a black friday sale on pleated khakis. laughter the g. O. P. Ringleader was Florida Republican and evil bobs big boy, matt gaetz. And, oh, gaetz came in hot. Im gathered here with dozens of my congressional colleagues, underground, in the basement of the capitol, because if behind those doors, they intend to overturn the results of an american president ial election, we want to know whats going on. Stephen oh, oh, i know donald trump pressured ukraine to give him dirt on joe biden, a whistleblower told congress, who are now Holding Hearings with republicans in the room, until they were all interrupted by the fraternal order of asshats. cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Ronan farrow is here. But when we return, right here, more monologue stick around dramatic orchestra performance comes in lots of flavors. Theres the ampedup, overtuned, feedingfrenzyof sheetmetalkind. And then theres performance that just leaves you feeling better as a result. Thats the kind lincolns about. Sc johnson. Magnum ice cream double caramel. Now in ice cream tubs and bars. [growling] mail slice. Just get one of me looking off. How is she there and were here . Condoms. True. Dont hatelike their trip, book yours with hotels. Com and get rewarded basically everywhere. Hotels. Com. Be there. Do that. Get rewarded. Is just like our originalhn sandwiches. Only littler. 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And i cant wait to get beyond the monologue because our guest tonight is ronan farrow. A lot to talk about. Hes doing a tellall on you next, jon. Jon on me . Stephen yeah, hes blowing the lid off how nice you are. Jon thats great. Stephen dont sweat it. Today donald trump spoke at a shale energy conference, where under tremendous pressure, his mouth released some gas. First, he introduced his team. These are people that fight with me all the time on the witch hunts. Ive had the mueller witch hunt, the russia witch hunt. I have witch hunts every week. I say, whats the witch hunt this week . Stephen i think its whatever illegal thing you did last week. I think if we jump weeks like that, we leapfrog. Jon it would be a lot. Stephen then his brain hit an oil slick and started to spin out. Thank you, dan. Thank you. applause that looks like cary grant, doesnt he . Have you ever been told that . That is not a bad compliment, i must say. Today we have tomarn tom arnold, and in those days, you had it a little different. Those days, you had errol flynn cary grant. A little different. Stephen as trump back then, you had cary grant. Todays biggest movie star is tom arnold, in the hollywood blockbuster true lies, the biggest hit of 1994. Also the year my brain stopped absorbing new information. And trump found a new thing to brag about he builds the straightest roads. Instead of a straightine, looks like this, if you have a drink youre in big trouble. Stephen wait, so the problem with curvy roads its hard to drive drunk on. I promise you, in a second trump turn, the roads will be so straight, you can just jam an umbrella under the steering wheel, then lean back and get your cronk on, fol. Dont applaud. Please. Jon dont drink and drive. Stephen please, drink responsibly. As always, he harkened back to his days as a builder. I was a builder. Thats what i did the best i built. I really built good. Stephen and you still do youre building a really good case for impeachment. cheers and applause then trump made the workers a solemn promise. With the help of our proenergy agenda and by the way, youll never have another president like me. laughter stephen yes, yes, trump is unique, like a snowflake white, fragile and, with any luck, gone by spring. cheers and applause then applause laughter then he brought up building the wall obviously, its a big applause line, building the wall. Although, im not sure he knows exactly where. Were building a wall in colorado. Were building a beautiful wall, a big one that really works stephen what the huh colorado is not on the mexican border. Wait, wait. Is he trying to tell us something . as trump i had a great phone call with turkish president erdogan, gave him the goahead for his military offensive into new mexico. Hes just setting up a safe zone, folks. Got to clear all the kurds from albekurdy. Well be right back with mr. Ronan farrow. 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Folks, my first guest is an investigative journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on Harvey Weinstein. His new book, about the corruption and coverups he encountered during that investigation, is called catch and kill. Please welcome back to the late show ronan farrow applause nice tow see you again. Thanks for having me. Stephen let me ask you a quick question about the Pulitzer Prize. I love a question about about the Pulitzer Prize. Stephen i have a lot of prizes. I dont have one of those. Is it nice . It helps to fill the yawning void of insecurity im constantly trying to fill. Stephen i have one of those, two. The new book catch and kill, which digs into your reporting on Harvey Weinstein and the circumstances around it. Hoihow long ago did your originl article come out . Because we are before that, you know, hashtag me too existed and there was an awareness of sexual abuse happening in the workplace, Sexual Harassment happening in the workplace. It amplified, it certainly accelerated, broadened want peoples knowledge of this and created a new cultural era for us. What was when did that actually come out, that article . Its been almost exactly two years. Youre right, there was grassroots activism. But it has been incredibly moving to see an industry after industry people standing up and saying enough and starting to talk about some of the systems that kept this quiet for so long. Stephen lets talk about the systems. Thats whats fascinating to me. We know a lot about some of the revelations of powerful men not held to account. Lets talk about thes w waye protected. Whats catch and kill. Its an old term, isnt it . Its a tabloid journalism term. I use the term journalism very loosely. A lot of outlets, including the National Enquirer, used to aqiert rights to a story in order to not publish it but bury it at the behest of a powerful person. Stephen a protective buy where you take it and you go away. Thats right. An w this plot in literally im following a trail of clues from the National Enquirer work fog smear victims will of Harvey Weinstein and bury stories for him, and all the way to the top, if you will, the collaboration between President Trump and the National Enquirer. And its used figuratively, stephen, because its about these broader patterns in our profession its media world that kept these stories bury gld im not sure we have the same profession, but thank you very much. I consider you a tough journalist and you make a cameo on catch and kill. Stephen i did see on page 401 just rapidomly. He did not read the book. He went straight to the index, straight to his name gli go straight to the filet of the neighborhood. Its the important part. Stephen on cbs Stephen Colbert looked at me narrowly right. Stephen and i said, i didnt want the story to be about me and changed the subject. I was asking about neebsz not running the story originally. And i said colbert said, part of the story is the story not being told for so long, and you experiencing the story not being told. First of all, this colbert character seems pretty sharp. Pretty sharp. laughter its a good moment. Stephen im surprised it took you to page 401 to get him in there. Well see about moving him up in the reprints. Stephen but lets talk about that. What was the status of this story before you took it to the new yorker . Where were you with nbc on this story . So, theres been much discussion of this. The fact is and its laid out very clearly in the book we had what i considered to be an reportable body of evidence. We had passed standards and legal reviews of various kinds. We are tapes of Harvey Weinstein admitting to sexual assaults, names of multiple women. But that is a distraction from the main story which you were asking about and i was dodging questions about, my producer and i at nbc were ordered again and again to stop. It was, dont take this interview. Cancel this interview with the rape victim. Dont take a single call on this. Stand down. Stephen why didnt you tell me that story at the time . Would it have taken you 401 pages to tell the answer to that . Part of the answer is yes. Running through the book is this struggle about whether to speak about this. And we have all, in our profession in the last few years dealt with this struggle of what do you do when these allegations hit your own house . What do you do when it hits so close to home. Stephen so the people protecting queer eye harvey wet that moment were people at nbc. A lot of people caught on it that and it is very hard to speak truth to power when its your own bosses. I did a lot of reporting on cbs, and you were among the first to be really principled and get on tv and say, hes my boss. But he has to be held accountable. Thats a tough thing to do. I wont make you blush by talking about it. But i admire that. We see people at nbc saying that. People like chris hayes saying these are the tough questions to ask and the killing of the story is wrong. And i was in the same position, stephen, struggling with i dont want to be the story. Im the reporter. I spent a year living in the dramatic accusations these brave women did, and the last thing i wanted was to burn my professional bridges and make the story about me. But as more and more people came forward and talked about coverups and the pattern of secret settlements to bury this kind of stuff, i reallied it was a story i had to tell and it would take 400 pages to do it. Stephen heres how i know were not in the same profession is i love being the story. You touched on this a moment okay. We have been talked about trump and quid pro quo, lately. Explain the relationship that donald trump had with the National Enquirer, which is owned by a. M. I. , which is american media. Incorporated. Stephen incorporated, okay. What was the quid quo pro between a. M. I. And trump. I know what trump was getting, which is to get his butt covered and it takes a fair amount of paper. laughter what was a. M. I. Getting out of this. I follow a trail of clues from Harvey Weinstein working with a. M. I. , and trump working with a. M. I. , the practice of catch and kill, during the 2016 election, Trump Associates worked closely with the National Enquirer to suppress, for instance, various stories about affairs. There was a doorman at trump tower who claimed to have a story about a trump love child, not clear if the underlying story was accurate, but the transaction where they were paying people to bury the truth or bury a rumor were news and they were potential violations of election law. And ultimately after i get lied to a lot in this book, stephen, lied to, lied to, lied to. And a. M. I. Said, no, we didnt publish this stuff because it didnt meet our exacting journalistic standards. And the book reveals a couple of instances including collaboration going after a story including trump and epstein. Stephen whats the story between trump and epstein . There was an anonymous lawsuit filed by an unnamed jane doe, alleging when h she was underaged there was an assault involving trump and epstein and human trafficking. The story, where its not clear if the underlying allegation was true. The source proved to be elusive. But there was an effort where there were close conversations between the trump camp and a. M. I. , and they sent a reporter out to try to get that story. All of this becomes important because as you say, it is a quid quo pro, and on tusms end you wind up with various stories suppressed that could have a material effect on our politics stephen do you know how many stories . I see for the first time any journalist has heene seine it in this book a master list of all the historical dirt that trump about trump in the a. M. I. Archives. Stephen how many stories. Its called killed stories about donald trump. And its about 60 i should say the headline here is not that theres some explosive unknown headline. The story is the cover. The underlying condent is there are about five affairs, and the jill harth case which has become public. Really the story was they made this list, that they were working with trump, and that right bmpt election, they actually shred a bunch of stuff on it. Theres a shredding party. Stephen but they still know that these stories existed, and as you were saying, they have that over the president of the United States . Right, so theres a couple ways the power flows in this relationship. One is david pecker, the head of the narcos narcos national ens perks, inaugural events and flying on trumps plane to dinner at the white house and introductions to wealthy saudis that could revive the ailing National Enquirer, and on trumps end, you could get a distortion of the election. 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Stephen what do you mean strange calls . There were outright threating calls, breather calls that never went anywhere, strange texts and stuff. Theres a discussion in the book about which of those breathing heavy. Stephen like that. If only it were you, stephen. It seems so over the top. But this is a plot that ends up being and i have the paper trail on this, too literally one russian, one ukrainian spy, at one point tracking my g. P. S. Phone location to trace me to the new yorker. And theyre getting pin drops of where i am. In the one sense stephen how did you know that they were doing this . I only found out later. And theres a secret source that calls me and says under the code name axiom at first and says, im in surveillance. Walk against traffic for several blocks. Go to one restaurant. Go to another restaurant. And then proceeds to show me all these photos from survailing me. And that ends up being a deep rabbit hole of infiltrating this espionage operation. Stephen did you look good in the photos. I looked excellent in the photos. On the one hand, there are some silly aspects to this. These guys were Tweedle Dee Tweedle dum. They followed the wrong guy for three days just because he was blond. Stephen why did they follow the wrong guy around. Because he looked like me. Stephen was it frank sinatra. Sure they followed the ghost of frank sinatra. That was good. Stephen what was the most positive thing to come out of this book, do you think. As much as this is a story about a lot of dark things and crimes and coverups and these systems of Mutual Protection of powerful people, its a story of brave whistleblowers who came forward. Source after sour stood up from the inside of the operation and said, im developing a conscience about this. This should stop. We should have the free press in this country. Reporters shouldnt be threatened. I dont see any stynes cheers and applause i think were going to keep seeing that. I think whistleblowers will keep coming. I i think reporters woan stop and just the way fellow reporters have rallied around this book is very moving to me and giving me hope the free press is alive and well. Stephen i understand in the actual when you were working on this, in one of the draftz of this you proposed to your fiance, jon lovett. How did that come out . Friend of this program. Stephen friend of the show, exactly. I proposed in the do,iest way. I left the proposal in the draft changes draft document. Stephen was he helping edit it at the time . I wanted to get his notes but hes really busy, i said, please read it wink, wink theres Something Special in there. And he proceeded to do what you did, indexed his name, propose f, and misses the proposal. He skim read it. Stephen what was the proposal . Can you reveal what it said . You can read it in the book. Its there. Stephen is my name on the page . The proposal was supposed to be for you. Expumently he did say yes, but it did take nudging him very hard to read more than just the lines with his name. Stephen ronan, thank you so much for being here. Always a pleasure. Thank you, stephen. Stephen the book is catch and kill. Its available now. Ronan farrow, everybody. Well be back with comedian Andrea Savage. I need yadada know where im at yadada oooo, yadada ooooo yadada me, aye i was on the fence about changing from a manual to an electric toothbrush. But my hygienist said going electric could lead to way cleaner teeth. She said, get the one inspired by dentists, with a round brush head. Go pro with oralb. Oralbs gentle rounded brush head removes more plaque along the gum line. For cleaner teeth and healthier gums. And unlike sonicare, oralb is the First Electric toothbrush brand accepted by the ada for its effectiveness and safety. What an amazing clean ill only use an oralb oralb. Brush like a pro. [truck horn blares] vo the subaru forester. Dog tested. Dog approved. 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Yeah, its definitely based, a lot of the stories, especially season one and two. And then other writers and i we tried to base it on reality of, you know, kids and parents and aging parents and that kind of stuff. Stephen uhhuh. I recently actually found out something you know youve been together with your wife for how long . Stephen 26 years. Okay, very long time. Thats amazing applause . Stephen doesnt seem like it. Doesnt seem like it, darling. laughter barf. Stephen thats how you keep it fresh. Thats how you keep it fresh. Thats how you keep it fresh, lookinlooking into the camera ad patronizing kissing your wife . All right, okay. Thats cute. Thats cute. That was cute. Stephen thank you very much. I found out something recently after youve been in a marriage that long, its rare to find something new out about your husband. Stephen this is true. And recently my husband was going on a work retreat and we were sitting around the house a couple of days before. And he said, you know theyre doing a talent show at my retreat. Im thinking of performing something. And of course i said to him, what talent do you have . And he goes, well, you know, i walk on glass. laughter . Stephen first of all, is that a talent . laughter it doesnt seem like a talent. Well, you have walked on glass without cutting yourself . Stephen well, no, but it seems more like a circus act. Stephen a psychosis or something, a fetish. Listen, i dont know all of the emotio reasons he does it. Stephen yes. He walks on glass . Evidently, hes, like i i have a whole routine. And i was like, who are you . This isnt like, oh, you never knew i liked donuts . This is like, i have a full side show, like a sidewalk show. Stephen does he patter and everything. Ladies and gentlemen, please, avert your eyes, there may be blood, that kind of thing. I think he does. It involves him he did this on his work retreat. And i was a little nervous. I was like, are you sure you want to do this in front of 600 people you dont know that well and its been a while since youve done this, because im not even aware of this. And he did it. He came out to jesus walks by kanye west. laughter in a track suit, removes his t top, and is now topless, walks out, jumps gets on a chair, and leaps into glass. And then he yeah. Its crazy im, like, who is this person that ive married . And he did the whole performance. He has someone stand on his chest. And then he walks through. And then the big finish, he leaps into the glass and throws glass in his face. By the way, it crushed stephen im sure we have to go. But i want to hear i understand that the show is its it can be a bit indecent, a bit a little racy. Stephen a little racate times. Thats a good word racy at times. And there have been times when you have not been allowed to show things on air. What network is this on now . Its true tv. Stephen true tv, okay. Weve gotten some battles with the stashedz and practices. Stephen we have, too. I can imagine. You have ever needed to get a picture of a woman biting a penis crosseyed. Stephen get one or broadcast one . Thank you for clarifying. Broadcast one. Stephen no, never had to do that. Its a tricky road to navigate. Stephen what are you saying . How do you get you cant trutv is not pay cable, right . But we can swear on it. Stephen really . Yeah, yeah, we can swear. Stephen what whatyou can say . What you can say . You can say bleep bleep bleep yeah. You just cannot say bleep . laughter . Stephen can you show a woman biting a penis crosseyed . You can, yes, but you have to blur part of the middle part. And we were going back and forth, and they were like stephen the middle part . The middle part. The middle part. So theres the part thats at the body stephen i understand that part. And then theres the part at the end. Stephen yeah shes smack in the middle. And shes like. Stephen are you telling me your show and hilt and the sensitive end, and then. We got away with more than youd think. Stephen but the swayback bleep in the middle, you gotta. Can we say that . Can we say that on cbs . None of this. None of this. This is our last Television Show, thank you for being here. laughter . Thrilled to be a part of anything thats the last. Stephen so so, anyway, so we went back and forth. They were like stephen why did this need to be in the Television Show . By the way if you watch my show its a very big part. Its this photo that i use as a joke stop looking into that camera thats your wife laughter okay. Now i feel like i need to stephen yes. Yes. Anyway, its an important part of it. Its an email thing that goes wrong. I end up sending it to my daughters Kindergarten Elementary School that she that she just got into. Stephen true story . Kind yeah. And basically, but this is the thing. Were going back and forth. Standardses and practices is like we cant show pubic hair and we cant do this and we cant do that. And im like, now its unrecognizable as a penis and the joke doesnt work. And i sat down with thenpresident of true tv. We had a dinner. And i said, you have seen the emails going back and forth about the penis pictures. And he said, i have, and i dont think it works, and im passionate about getting this bleep to work. And im like i found my people. Thank you. Stephen lovely to meet you, thank you for being the holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. Late show. Tune in tomorrow when ill be joined by steve carell and musical guest toby keith. Now stick around for james corden. Good night