laughter applause laughter cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, i pity the juul. And, stephen goes adventuring in new zealand. Plus, stephen welcomes daniel craig. And lena waithe. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york cheers and applause stephen come on hi oh, what a week come on come on please have a seat, everybody, thank you so much. Please sit down sit down, everybody thank you very much. Welcome to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. And it is friday. It is friday, you can feel it. cheers and applause jon yes indeed. Stephen you can feel it, its real. And today, congress got a muchneeded break from the impeachment hearings. Theyve gone home to celebrate thanksgiving, where im sure no one will argue about impeachment. Trump also got a break. Surprisingly, it was a smoke break, because today trump met with members of the vaping industry. Now, you might remember a while back, trump surprised everyone by announcing that he would be banning flavored ecigarettes. We have a problem in our country. Its a new problem. Its a problem nobody really thought about too much a few years ago, and its called vaping especially vaping as it pertains to innocent children. And theyre coming home, and theyre saying, mom, i want to vape. laughter stephen yeah. Thats what they say. Thats exactly laughter thats exactly what they say. Its a classic rebel kid move asking for permission. Mom, i want to vape. Also, i want to have unprotected sex, and when youre out of town, i was thinking about throwing a huge rager where somebody breaks grandmas urn over there. If you could get back to me on all that asap, thatd be great. Now this is very personal, this issue cheers and applause im not sure what were applauding, but thank you laughter this issue is very personal for trump. Its an issue that affects his family. We cannot allow people to get sick, and we cant have our youth be so affected. And im hearing it and thats how the first lady got involved. Shes got a son together that is a beautiful young man, and she feels very, very strongly about it. Stephen as trump now, now, i havent spent much time with her son, together, as id like. When he was born, i was in a very stormy situation, and. Very stormy time. audience reacts cheers and applause it was a storm i just had to ride out. Jon oh stephen what . Jon come on stephen this this was an important issue for the first lady. This was a personal project of hers. And trumps vape ban was a solemn commitment to his wife. So, naturally, he broke it, because, this week, he reversed course on the ban due to concerns that hed anger his supporters and eliminate vaping related jobs. That is an interesting approach to public health. as trump well, i was going to stop the children from inhaling poison, but then i thought, what about the poor poison salesmen who make their living poisoning children . How are they going to feed their poisoned kids . It wasnt just the threat of job losses out there, though. Apparently, trump was shaken by prottershis llie and these protesters were really something. Heres an actual photo of a group of them, demonstrating for. Im not entirely sure. Well, trump might soon want to disappear in a fog of mango flavored poison mist himself, because were learning more about what went on behind the scenes in his scheme to get ukraine to investigate the bidens. Specifically, the role of Rudy Giulianis associates, lev parnas and igor fruman, the ursulas eels of the ukraine investigation. laughter cheers and applause jon oh, wow wow stephen worth it. 100 . Now, trump has denied knowing who these two guys are, which is odd, because we just learned that parnas and fruman were guests last year at the white houses annual hanukkah party, or as trump calls it as trump little hat candle christmas. laughter oh, candle christmas visitors why are your hats so tiny . laughter now, these parties are big, crowded affairs, but lev and igor got v. I. P. Treatment. At one point during the party, parnas and fruman slipped out to have a private meeting with the president and giuliani though, i know, it sounds bad. audience reacts it sounds bad though, it is a hanukkah party. They may have just gone off to play a highstakes game of dreidel. laughter as trump this is the first casino ive been to where they dont judge me for eating the coins. laughter but, some people some people applause jon recollections, stephen come on, gimel but it might not have been so innocent after all, because after he met with trump, lev parnas told two of his buddies he was on a secret mission to pressure the Ukrainian Government to investigate joe biden, like some sort of james bond mission. Yes, a james bond mission. laughter the one thing you dont want in a spy is someone excited to tell everyone theyre a spy. laughter my names james bond, and im a spy heres my license to kill. Well, its a learners permit right now. Dont look at the picture. I have a tuxedo on under my wet suit, and its really binding in the crotch cheers and applause of course, a ton of people are out there running to replace donald trump. And ill tell you the latest in tonights doin it donkey style. Okay, boomer stephen first up, former south bend mayor pete buttigieg, seen here telling his fans where they should keep their expectations. Mayor pete has been surging into the lead in iowa, thanks in large part to support among older voters, all because of his new slogan vote for pete hell set up your internet. laughter cheers and applause but but jon thats a good one stephen but theres one key demo mayor pete has been struggling with, and thats African American voters. So hes been trying to reach out to them. On his campaign website, he introduced a Racial Equality Initiative called the douglass plan, along with this nice photo of an African American mother and son. Just one problem the photo was actually taken in kenya. Yes. Thats a move known as the reverse obama. laughter the campaign has taken the photo down and apologized, but theyre still very excited about their outreach to other communities, like voters from new england; latin americans; and of course, the l. G. B. T. Community. laughter next up cheers and applause mmmm mmmm i could go for an l. G. B. T. Right now. On toast . L. G. B. T. On toast . Jon i mean, you know. Stephen next up on doin it d, theres a new candidate in the race former Massachusetts Governor and im going to say captain on that new star trek show deval patrick. Patrick recently threw his hat into the ring thats already more hat than ring. This week, he held an event at a historically black morehouse college, and a reporter tweeted this photo, saying, an organizer with the college who planned the event told cnn that patrick cancelled the event when he arrived and learned that he would not have an audience. audience reacts it seems sad. I know, it seems sad. But look closer, and youll see there was one eager attendee a welldressed headless torso just out of curiosity, is that headless torso running for president . Because after the last debate, it seems like having no mouth would be a huge advantage. laughter now, the event the event cheers and applause the event for patrick wasnt a total wash. The tweet goes on to say note two people came, not pictured. Oh oh, no. As a former struggling actor, i can tell you, two people in the audience is way worse than zero people in the audience. If no one comes, you can say, hey, must have had the wrong time on the poster but if two people show, you have to spend hours giving them the worst date of their lives. laughter now, there are things going on in the country besides the election. For instance, the entire state of south dakota just made this stunning admission in their new drugawareness campaign meth were on it. laughter thats bold jon thats a catch phrase. Stephen thats a bold campaign. I did not realize meth was that big of a problem in south dakota. Jim, can we take a look at Mount Rushmore . Oh, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Seek help. 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The Prime Minister picked me up at the airport, i hung out with xena, warrior princess, i played rugby, i made a movie with peter jackson, i got drunk and fist fought a hobbit. The only thing i didnt film on my trip to new zealand was my actual trip to new zealand, on Air New Zealand. In fact, heres me in the airport with my sleep mask, my neck pillow, and my carryon full of Invasive Plant species. laughter Air New Zealand was amazing, and starting in 2020, theyll be offering nonstop flights from new york straight to auckland. Which reminds me. as pilot ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Please remain in your seats as we just hit a small patch of mild product placement. bell rings kia ora, stephen. Weve got some new zealand fine wine here. Would you like the new zealand red or the new Zealand White . Stephen yes thank you. cheers and applause mmm. Mmm. Jon yes, yes stephen try the rose. laughter and while its now easier than ever to get there, the hardest part is deciding between all the incredible experiences you can have in new zealand. Tonight, i present my last and perhaps greatest day of all trying to have every experience at once. Jim . Stephen new zealand. The small island nation is packed with a stunning variety of landscapes. Nowhere else on the planet can you see the southern alps, ve volcanoes, breathtaking waterfalls, expansive green valleys, remote sandy beaches, and dazzling mountaintop glaciers, all within the square mileage of colorado. I wanted to experience this Natural Beauty firsthand, and hopefully untap some of my inner rugged manliness but im not a big fan of walking. So i met up with helicopter pilot choppy, who took me out to explore the majesty of the south island. Why did you want to be a helicopter pilot . I started flying airplanes. And then i joined Air New Zealand and flew passenger planes for a while. Like, 55cs and fokker fokkers, i think theyre called. Stephen we cant say fokker on cbs. Its got two ks in it. Stephen oh, got two ks . Were good. I might take this little gap on the left. Stephen all right. I told choppy i was up for adventure, so she brought me over to the kawarau bridge, the birthplace of bungee jumping. Okay, thats the bungee bridge . Choppy landed on a dime, and i met henry van ash, who, along with a. J. Hackett, pioneered bungee jumping on this very bridge. There are no natural predators in new zealand, so kiwis brag that they had to invent their own ways to almost die. That it . There you go. Theres your future right there, stephen. Stephen and, just cards on the table im not a huge fan of heights. Or drops, really. Whats it like . Your heads going to be exploding with excitement, and your heart will be leaping out of your chest wi thl, fear, because youre obvi oously irreallyst scared nf which is natural stephen yeah, i am i am i am scared. Im scared. Will smith was on the show, and he bungee jumped recently, and he said, i had to do it. I had to overcome my fear. I asked will about the bungee jumping because im going to new zealand tomorrow and theyre trying to get me to bungee jump when im down there, and im not i think you have to. You have to. Stephen no, no. Listen, fear is mans greatest poison. echoing poison. Poison. Stephen so i headed to the bridge to face my fear. And fear won. laughter suddenly i was curious about adventures that dont involve plunging into a ravine, so choppy and i headed back out over the wakatipu basin. The thing about new zealand, it seems like it just rose out of the sea. Theres such vitality in the land. And i feel like i have to stay here and, and here i will be a man. How manly do i seem to you, choppy . I think youre definitely on the manlier side of nonmanly. Stephen so, im identifiably male, is what youre saying. Correct. Stephen thank you. laughter we landed up at a high sheep station, where i met professional sheep farmer and aspiring tank top model john foster to learn how to sheer sheep. baas stephen shhh. Look at that. Perfect. Stephen is it always shearing . Or do you ever do, like, brazilian waxing . No. Stephen no, never wax . Its very hard to actually get hold of the wax afterwards. Stephen okay, how do we do it . So what ill do is, ill start the hard lift. Well open the fleece up. And then you can shear the last half of the sheep. buzzing give him give him a handshake. You look fabulous with an important kiwi skill successfully under my belt, we headed to the rugged and remote west coast of the south island, where i met warrick, a wilderness guide, lobster hunter, and im pretty sure tallest guy in new zealand. So, warrick, i really love your country, and im trying to figure out whether i could be a kiwi, you know . What do you do . Im a wilderness stephen a wilderness guide. U weidll, theres a lot of it her. What are you going to do today . What are what are we doing . Diving for red rock lobster. Stephen youre going to dive for a lobster. Yeah. Stephen quick question are there sharks out there . Look, there are sharks anywhere in the ocean, but. Stephen no. Im not too worried. Stephen thats not true. What do sharks eat . What do sharks eat, warrick . Seals . Stephen okay. You know what you look like, right . With the flippers and the outfit . You know what you look like, you look like a seal. A seal, yeah. Stephen okay, so youre going to go out there looking like a seal in sharkinfested waters to grab a. A spiny bug the size of a football. And that thats a job that that people have down here. Yeah. Stephen im in. Why dont you why dont you show me how to do it . Yup. Stephen excellent. Please. All right. Yup, yup, come on. Stephen no, you go on. You show me how, and then ill ill be next. Yeah, go on, man. Whoo. This is what im going to do. laughter laughter stephen compared to hand fishing lobsters in shark infested waters, bungee jumping suddenly seemed reasonable. So i sucked it up and gave it one more shot. Are you ready . Stephen yeah. I think i think this is as close as im going to get. I just need you to put your feet here, so we can tie you up. Stephen okay. I just thought to myself, what would my good friend will smith say . Your job for the human race is to conquer the fear that poisons your dreams, stephen. Stephen breathes out lets go. See you on the other side, stephen. Stephen okay. Thats the one. Stephen, were ready when you are. Stephen am i there . Little bit further, please, stephen. Nearly there. Thats awesome. Hands off of this one. Eyes up on the bridge. Five, four, three, two, one. cheers and applause stephen wow. That really looks like i jumped off a bridge. That was actually my showrunner, chris. He really want me to jump, but i really was not interested, so i made him spraypaint his hair, dress up like me, and jump instead. Yeah, to hell with that. laughter instead, choppy and i flew out to the southern alps, and up and over the richardson mountains. I said up and over okay, this is way closer than i want to be. Is there somewhere in this helicopter i could change my underwear . laughter so these are all glaciers. Stephen there are very few places in the world where you can still see this many glaciers, let alone land on one. So choppy set us down for a onceinalifetime experience. Choppy, thank you for taking me up here. I mean, it really is a privilege to see your country and to to be at the top of the world here. And i have to say that it its more than beautiful. This experience is absolutely spiritual. Whoo whoa im not sure if i can do this. applause stephen choppy choppy, how long have you been flying up into these mountains with these glaciers . Jeepers, over 40 years now. Stephen what was it like 40 years ago . I mean, were there were there more glaciers back then . A lot more glaciers, and they ran right down into the valleys. But now theyve receded back, the pieces are falling off, and the suns hitting the black rocks and accelerating their demise. Stephen is it bad for me to be up here on it, because im so smoking hot . laughter you know about bungee jumping, right . I do. Stephen my staff wants me to bungee jump. I guess they dont understand that if i die, no one has jobs. Because what if something happens to me when i bungee jump . Choppy . I suppose it would have an effect on the bungee jumping companys business for a couple of weeks. Stephen couple of weeks . Couple of weeks . Really . That long . Tell me what its like to do, because ive already ive already ive already said no several times. Well, its sort of like, you dive down, and youre like, whoaoh and then you feel the rubber band take your weight, andyouet was good. Th cgainit goes, whoa oh oh. Stephen theres no part of that that sounds appealing to me. When i get into so you feel like, oh, im going to die . Correct. Stephen okay. Its the beginning im afraid of. Its that first step. Its terrifying. Stephen okay, okay. Choppy, would you mind if i had a moment alone with the glacier . I wanted to say a proper goodbye while i still had the chance. Well, bring a camera its a tv show come on. breathing heavy ahhhh heres to you, old friend. Well see you later, on the beaches of ohio. laughter breathes out bleep it, lets go bungee. Five, four, three, two, one. Stephen yeah cheers and applause stephen oh, my god. Oh, my god. Well, thats a wrap for new zealand. T people. And gravity works here, too. Well see you back in new york. 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Stephen what is the bone picking . Well, its just, ive been here how many times have i been here, twice, three times . Stephen four times. This is the fourth maybe. And ive always been in this rather small dressing room. And i got taken upstairs and i was in this dressing room with sofas and cashme teowhrs, and, usually has. Stephen yes. And i was like, she gets that and i just get the little dressing room back here, normally. Stephen i i like rachel weisz more than i like you. Fair enough. applause stephen i think ive made that clear. I think ive made that clear every time youve been here actually. Well, maybe, but now its been confirmed. Stephen good, good. Now, no time to die. Here we go. The poster is out. There you go. Comes out cheers and applause comes out in april. Now, as if another daniel craig bond movie isnt cool enough, i understand that you personally got the great Phoebe Waller bridge involved in this project. Yup. Stephen how did that come about . Shes amazing. I know, because shes amazing. I mean, its simple as that. It was killing eve. Did you watch it . Stephen yeah. So i and i knew she was great from fleabag. But i watched killing eve and i saw what she did with that and i thought it was spectacular. Stephen did you know her . A little bit, like hi. Stephen ive done that. So you just coldcalled her and said, hi, its daniel craig. Will you write the bond movie . Kind of, yeah. Stephen wow, thats cool. And she didnt say no. She said yes, so thats great. Stephen that sounds like the title of a bond movie she can only say no. cheers and applause now, the movie has our friend rami malek in it. Yes, it does. How lucky we are to have him. Stephen hes hot off what did you say . How lucky we are to have him. Stephen hes a wonderful guy, and hot off the oscar. Now, when he was here last time, he was talking about it. We have a clip right here. Jim. Hes my favorite bond, if i can say that, without stephen sure, sure, why not . Yeah, why not . applause we had this scene that was a very complicated scene, and we were rehearsing for it with our terrific director cary fukunaga, and we were sitting at a table over hours just batting about ideas back and forth, and we finally cracked this really challenging scene. And, you know, he grabbed me, picked me up. And i cant tell who initiated the next moment, if it was him or i, but. laughter a kiss transpired between the two of us. laughter and im gonna say that daniel initiated it. laughter and i was very taken aback. Stephen was it welcome . Yes, very much so. Stepheni just wanted to make sure. Just wanted to make sure, yeah. And i took a moment, caught my breath. And looked down and said, so, does this make me a bond girl . laughter stephen its a valid question. Daniel craig. applause first of all, it sounds like a lovely moment. It was a lovely moment. Stephen but its a valid question. I kiss all my leading men. laughter i think it just breaks the ice. Stephen good, good. Now, when youre done wi are you done with bond . Yes. Stephen youre done with bond . Its done. Stephen wow. Is that why youve gained all the weight . Yeah. laughter stephen when you finally do let yourself go, like really, if you were if you were to let yourself go, like brando style,t wo uld be your poison . What would you do to pack on the pounds . I think guinness. laughter stephen just guinness . Just guinness. Maybe some solids occasionally, but guinness i think would probably be my way. Stephen just to keep the guinness in your system long enough . Yeah, i think, you know. Whats the expression, why let solids get in the way of a good drink . laughter stephen we have to take a break. Please dont leave because when we come back, well have more with daniel craig, everybody. Stick around. Not even our competitors best battery can match the power of energizer. Because energizer ultimate lithium is the longest lasting aa battery in the world. 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And in fact my family my kids have all said to me this is the holiday movie were going to see over the thanksgiving break. This is the one were going to see. Fantastic, that will be great. I dont think theyll be disappointed. Stephen we have a clip here. Anything you need to tell us about this . Its you and jamie. Stephen ja working with jamie leemi rtcue rtise , i mecuan, ho. W a fabulous woman she is. Stephen shes lovely, shes lovely. And a wonderful actress. I mean, but the entire cast is a dream. Stephen its an amazing cast. And i dont know. Do you want me to sell the movie, or . Stephen no im just wondering if theres anything we need to know about the scene . I dont know what stephen what the scene is . Okay, lets find out together. Its an adventure. Jim. Mr. Blanc, i know who you are. I read your profile in the new yorker, i found it delightful. I just buried my 85yearold father who committed suicide. Why are you here . Im here at the behest of a client. Who . I cannot say. But let me assure you this my presence will be ornamental. You will find me a respectful, quiet, passive observer of the truth. cheers and applause . Stephen murder mystery. Murder mystery. I have to say im fairly impressed, for a british guy, youve got a pretty good southern accent. Thank you. Stephen which youve done before. I did in logan lucky, yes. Stephen im actually a southern person. Could you teach me a british accent . Whats my hook . Lets see, welsh . Stephen welsh . That is just a cluster of consonants, isnt it . Ill try welsh. Lets think of something. I looked out of my window. I looked out of my window. Very good. laughter and there was my bike. Stephen and there is what . There was my bike. Stephen there was my bike. Gone. Stephen gone. Perfect. Stephen wow. cheers and applause now, wait a second now do it all together. Stephen is that a common sentence that welsh people say . No. Stephen now do it what . N. Stephen i looked out of my window and there was my bike, gone. Gone. Stephen gone. Perfect, you sound like richard burton. Stephen wonderful. There you go. Stephen and tom jones. Maybe. Stephen i was just in new zealand have you been to new zealand . I have, year, a couple of times. Im been to a place called dunedin which is on the south island, and in fact, you were flying with choppy, and i flew with choppy as well. Stephen choppy is amazing. And that bridge that you jumped off which is like stephen did you bungee . No laughter stephen wait, youre james bond and you didnt bungee . Thats a stupid thing to do laughter why would do you that . Why would anybody do that . Stephen i should be james bond. Knives out is in theaters wednesday. Daniel craig, everybody. Well be right back with lena waithe. Being a person is complicated. But we figure it out. In fact, people are always doing impressive things. So how come all these people who do wildly challenging things feel like they cant do their taxes . 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Stephen congratulations are in order, i understand, that you recently got married. Yeah, i got some jewelry, yeah. Stephen thats wonderful. Taken. cheers and applause stephen thats really nice. Well, you wrote the new film queen and slim. Yeah. Stephen its getting an incredible reception. Yeah. People are excited. Stephen and it feels timely. Where did the idea come from . Well, james frey actually came up to me at a party. The author. Stephen a million little things, was that it . Uh huh. He and oprah had a dispute about that. laughter but yeah, he he walked up to me. He said who he was. I said, im familiar. He said, i have an idea for a movie i cant write. I was like, well, whats that . Hes like, a black man, black woman on a first date, not going great, not going horribly. They start making their way home, they get pulled over by a Police Officer never a good thing for a black person. Things escalate pretty quickly. They kill the Police Officer in selfdefense, decide to get in the car and go. And i was like, youre right. You cant write that. laughter but i can. I was like, look, man, give me that idea. I want to go write that movie. And i did and it ultimately became queen and slim. Stephen you describe the film as protest art. Yeah. Stephen im a fan of protest art, i grew up in the 1970s and there was a lot of protest art, an echo of the movement in the 1960s, and i miss that. What to you constitutes protest art . Any art that really reflects the times. And it can be funny. I think atlanta is protest art, i think insecure is protest art, just like queen and slim is. Its us showing us in a very authentic way and humanizing us. Its so interesting, you know, theres a study that shows if youve ever being held up with a gun to your head, they tell you to tell them personal things about your life. Tell them you have a child, tell them youre married, tell them where you work. Because it makes it more difficult for them to kill you because they empathize. For me as an artist, i want to humanize black people so much, maybe theyll stop killing us. cheers and applause stephen well, thats a worthy use of art. We have we have a clip here. Can you tell us whats happening in the clip . Yeah, this is actually right after they kill the cop in self defense, and they have got in the car, and this is when they pull over and realize what theyve done. Stephen jim. Where are you going . Im going to find somebody with a phone so i can call my family. If you do that, then theyll know where we are. Great what if they kill us . Dont say that theres no guarantee they wont youre a black man that killed a cop and then took his gun. Im not a criminal. You are now. I just want to go home, and i want to see my family. applause stephen beautiful film. Thank you, thank you very much. Im really proud of it. Stephen you know, not only are you somebody who writes movies but youre someone who is steeped in movies. Yeah. Stephen and in the best way possible. You worked at a blockbuster video, i understand. I did, yeah. laughter which feels like something of, like the dinosaur times. Like, kids dont even know what a blockbuster is. Stephen do you miss it . I do miss blockbuster, you know, because it was sort of like i used to like going to them so much, and then working there i kind of became a bit of a rain man of movies because people would never reallyyou couldnt just google what you wanted. They came in, sharon stone, 1992, she was in a white dress. I was like, did she cross her legs . Uhhuh. Basic instinct, i got you, hold on. People just couldnt remember what they wanted. laughter stephen id like to test your rain man capabilities right now, okay . Lets do it. cheers and applause stephen ill give you the barest. Ive just come in, just come in. Youre that guy. Stephen my kids are tearing apart the childrens section. My favorite, my favorite. I get to pick up after them. Stephen Denise Richards and space bugs and. Starship troopers. Stephen starship troopers, cheers and applause thats exactly right. Okay, William Holden is in it, and like, theres a tv . Network. Stephen yes, okay, all right. Nice, because this could have been embarrassing. Stephen its antarctica, and its cold and curt russells got a big beard. The thing. Stephen its a series of very long movies with very short people trying to get rid of some jewelry. Hat laughter w stephen an theres, like theres like a volcano at the end of it, and they, they live underground. And and goonies . Stephen no, not goonies, some of them got pointed ears and your movie i just saw back there in new zealand . laughter cheers and applause Stephen Daniel kaluuya is in it . Oh, the black panther. Queen and slim . Stephen yes queen and slim is in theaters november 27. Lena waithe, everybody stephen 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 where it is you come from itll be all right its the late late show reggie ladies and gentlemen, all the way from wherein there