This epidemic sweeping across our world. Monkeys whove had their genitals regions scorched clean. For years, monkeys have walked among us but never with any j junk. We now know that j j. D. Vanceces behind a campaign to incinerate every primates privates. No wonder king kong is always so pissed off. J. D. Vance could easily cut ties with his controversial company, unless he doesnt have the balls. So thihis novembeber, tell j. J. O keep hisis hands off of your macque. Im tim ryan and i neuter monkeys announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight. Yeezy come, yeezy go. An exclusive look at this years best halloween movie. First, stephen welcomes kerry washington. And musical guest joe walsh. Featuring louis cato and the late show band. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert [cheers and applause] stephen hey, everybody. Please have a seat, everybody. Very nice. Ive got to tell you. Man, i tell you. With a greeting that powerful, im tempted to come out here and do that again. I think it would feel just as good the second time, dont you . Welcome one and all the the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. A lot of big stories. [cheers and applause] a lot of big stories to talk about tonight, but first, i have a big announcement to make. After much thought and soulsearching, i, Stephen Colbert, am banning kanye west from the ed sullivan theater. [cheering] i have to. I have to. Line in the sand. In fact, as host of the late show, my jurisdiction extends into the northern half of times square. And i am banning kanye from coming north of bubba gump shrimp. Okay . I have to. I have to. Stay out of times square. Hes been creeping out the elmos. And theyve seen a lot already. And i just want to take a moment here and just point out that this next part is the courageous part. Im also ending all of our highprofile collabs, including but not restricted to our collection of spreadable jams, strawbeezy jelleezy. And i have decided not to release our duets album, ye and phen. Sing fiddler on the roof. I know. I know. I know this has been too long in coming. I have no excuses for why i didnt do this before, except perhaps that he has never been on the show, had no plans to be on the show, we have never asked him to be on the show, and i am not sure he is aware that i have a show. But i had to do it now, because i was afraid he would just show up at any moment. Because thats what he did yesterday. The shoe company skechers said it had to escort kanye west from its offices after an unannounced visit. In five years, the idea of an unannounced visit from kanye has gone from amazing to sir, you need to leave this skechers. Right try pay less. Try pay less shoes. It gets worse. Unlike with adidas, kanye never had any deal with skechers. Apparently,kanye is so desperate, hes just driving around searching google maps for shoes near me. At this point, hes going to have to set his sights lower and be celebrity spokesman for slippers that come with the robe. You know their slogan throw us away speaking of sketchy, tesla ceo and cousin saying ayoh, take a picture of me with the space dongs elon musk. This week, musk announced that he is going to buy twitter, and the deal will be final by tomorrow. Tomorrow, right . In anticipation of the takeover, musk changed his twitter bio to chief twit. Not bad. [applause] its not too bad. I would have gone with twit for brains. Musk also posted this tweet entering twitter hq. Let that sink in alongside a video of him walking into the building holding a sink. Get it . He wanted to visualize a pun. Let me try elon, youre clearly unhinged. [applause] you have a screw loose. You have a screw loose. Youre nuts. Youre nuts. And frankly, hard to watch, since youre a tool of russian prop. Prop. A gander. Wasnt on camera. Are you okay . [applause] that bit almost killed our stage manager, mark, over there. You okay, buddy . Okay. Im looking forward to twitter on his first bad day as ceo. Our stock is in the toilet oh, what have we got . Is this an update . This is an update on Georgia RepublicanSenate CandidateHerschel Walker. [booing] seen here warning that there may be a giant Herschel Walker on the loose yesterday, a second woman came forward claiming that walker not only paid for her to get an abortion but drove her to the clinic. He went there so much, i assume at this point he has his own parking spot. You know. Walker dismissed the story as a lie, but his pile of scandals might be getting too big even for fox news. Because brett baier pushed back. I talked to a number of voters today. Some of them, these accusations affected them, to be honest. They said they just werent sure, and they didnt know if another shoe was going to drop. Stephen another shoe gonna drop . How many feet does Herschel Walker have . Is he a centipede . It would explain why he was such a good running back. With the midterms coming up, president Joseph Robinette biden is doing everything he can to push his party over the top. Now hes reaching out to your average joe sixcylinder by playing up his car guy persona, hoping his gearhead reputation will appeal to the republican base. Yes, with the fate of our nation at stake, the democrats have a plan republicans. Just last night, biden went on jay lenos garage hosted by jay leno and his sidekick, garage, where he and jay went for a ride in a 78 ford pickup that had been converted to all electric. If you just got in this and drove and didnt know it was an electric, would you know right away . Does it feel different to you . Feels different in three ways. One, its quiet. Right. Quiet as hell. Stephen yeah, it is quiet as hell. They might want to add some sound actually. Because you know what sounds dangerous . A completely silent 44yearold truck driven by a grandpa who hasnt been behind the wheel in two years. Okay . Honk the horn or something. Leno is well aware how rare driving is for biden. This is the only time you get to drive is when youre with me. Yeah, it is thats the gods truth. And its funny. And i miss it. I know. Every once in a while, i take the corvette out of the garage and just run up and down the driveway. [applause] stephen i mean, i can understand he loves his corvette but im not sure thats the most reassuring image. I know some skeptics worry that biden isnt totally with it. But youd change your mind if you could just see him going up and down the white house driveway for hours, muttering i miss this. Then things got wild, when, for some reason, biden dragraced against Colin Powells son, michael powell. Gentlemen, are you ready to go . Ready to go. Ready may the best corvette win on your mark get set go stephen holy malarkey joe biden put the pedal to the metal and hit 118 Miles Per Hour hes still got it hes still got it, baby whoo any faster and he wouldve driven back to 1955 and made out with marty mcflys mom which im pretty sure he did in 1955. If you liked that footage, you can see more in bidens upcoming movie, fast and furious 2 old 2 drive. Go, grease lightning grease lightning go, grease lightning go, grease lightning thank you. Speaking of old guys, we got a fun tidbit from his holiness pope francis, seen here greeting customers at walmart. The pontiff made headlines yesterday when he urged priests and nuns to delete porn from their phones. Priests . Nuns . Phones . Porn . Pope . Oh, my. And here i thought the steamiest thing to happen to the vatican was jude law. Now, obviously, il papa is not happy about men and women of the cloth watching the dirty videos. He warned aginst porn, saying the devil enters from there. 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And my favorite thing about the spooky season is all of the terrifying movies that come out this time of year. And i dont think scary movies should just be for adults. Halloween is for children and they deserve scary movies of their own. So recently i sat down with a group of very Creative Kids to find out what they want in a halloween movie. This is kids pitch [bell ringing] [screaming] hi, everybody. All hi, steve. Stephen are you excited to make the scariest movie ever . All yeah me too. Now, i asked you guys to draw some pictures of scary things. Now lets take a look at what you guys did. Is this you, ava . Yes, this is mine. Stephen who is this . His name is no one. Because he has no name. Stephen wow. Hes just is, like, a smile. Thats it. No body, no limbs. So there is a back story to it. So when i was walking outside to take out the trash, by myself, i just heard, i just heard, like, some kid music. Stephen kid music . Yeah. I heard it, like, far away. Stephen like an Ice Cream Truck kind of music . Yeah Ice Cream Truck music. I heard Ice Cream Truck music but there was no ice cream. There was none. I checked everywhere. I checked everywhere. Around my house. Stephen so is this the nighttime around him . Or is this the darkness that just surrounds him everywhere . Thats the darkness around him. Hes just under the bed right now because stephen hes under the bed . Yeah. You hear, like, some box. Music box. And then it goes and then when you look under the bed, like, very carefully, and then the music goes behind you. That means hes behind you about to kill you. Stephen thats absolutely terrifying. Thank you very much. Youre welcome. Stephen all right, ooh. There is some intricate stuff going on here. Maxwell, is this you . Yeah. Stephen maxwell, whats goin on . It looks like a teddy bear with someone in its chest. Thats freddy. Stephen tell me about freddy. Do you know who Freddy Krueger is . Stephen oh, yeah. I know Freddy Krueger. Freddy krueger played as him. Hes a horror character. Stephen so this is Freddy Krueger . Yeah. Hes just playing as as freddy. Stephen is he Freddy Krueger pretending to be someone named freddy . Or is he someone pretending to be Freddy Krueger . Like, the actor of freddy is Freddy Krueger. Stephen so the actor who plays Robert Englund is playing this character. And what is this characters name . Freddy. Stephen thank you. Ooh, this is you. Okay. Yeah. Stephen tell me what were looking at here. Its called evil monster. Stephen and whats going on down here . I see tell me oh. Stephen thats a ghost. That was a ghost. There is no way that just happened. That is terrifying. My heart just stopped. Anyone did that scare anybody else . No. Stephen how are you not scared, melanie . Because they fall off automatically. Stephen but it didnt before and then it did. And nobody did anything. Thats got to be a ghost. Im not scared. Its probably my dead grandma just touching it. Stephen im so sorry to hear that. But you think that might have been her just saying hi. Yeah. Stephen could be a friendly ghost. Oh, my gosh. This is really scary. That monkey is looking straight into my eyes. Stephen that monkey . Yeah, its creepy. Oh, yeah. Stephen is that they could is that a creepy monkey . Yeah, right there. Its being possessed by a demon. Stephen you think that could be a demon monkey . Yes. Stephen all right, whos the hero of this movie . Kingston. How about we put, like, this boy named peter who loves to do bad stuff. And then when he does bad, he gets the bad in him. Stephen so in other words, like, he invites the demon in by being bad and then he gets worse . Okay. Who is the main villain, ghost or monster of our movie . Ava. No one. Because hes going to be really big. And he is sleeping as peter. Peter is sleeping. Stephen peter is the boy who was sleeping who gets possessed by the demon when he does something bad and the demon sees it as an opportunity and no one possesses him . Does that sound right . No one. Stephen all right, how does our demon monkey fit into this . Hes the monkey that died that possessed him. Stephen its a monkey that becomes a demon who possesses no one who becomes a demon. And then no one possesses peter. Weve got a chain. Its like a turducken of evil. All yeah stephen a turducken of evil. Melanie, you have something to say . Tess has a little dance for you to show. Go, tess. Shes possessed. Youre all possessed by a demon. Stephen maxwell, how can you tell when someone is possessed . Because i can cross my eyes and then, like, a fake clone comes out of the body. Stephen wow. When i cross my eyes, i see i see two of all of you. Which one is the demon . Me. The demon is the blurry one. Stephen wow. What made no one turn into the monster that they are . I think it was cause his mom and dad couldnt come up with a name or something. Stephen his mom and his dad couldnt come up with a name. Then they threw him out the window. Stephen they threw a baby . Yeah. Stephen how old was he when he got thrown out the window . Uh, two months old. Stephen 2monthold baby got thrown out of the window with no name. And then, how did he then turned into the monster of no one . When the parents threw him out, threw no one out the window, he started rolling into like toxic gas and then he mutated into no one. You read my mind stephen so they live near a superfund site. And then he got into some toxic chemicals. Yes, ava. Who helps peter . So peter will have an angel next to him. Stephen an angel. Thats interesting. So its an angel fighting a demon. Thats a classic matchup. Who wants peter to have a girlfriend . Yes. I know what her name is going to be. Stephen whats the girlfriends name going to be . Angelica. Stephen angelica and wait wait. Theres an angel and a girl named angelica. Is his girlfriend does she turn out to be the angel . Yes. Stephen grayson, what do you think the villain wants from the heros . He probably just wants a place to hide. And maybe peter is very valuable and has knowledge he needs to know or something. So hes trying to get into his brain. Stephen okay, so he needs a place to live and its going to be inside of peter because hes tired of living underneath the bed. And then he gets into peter and he finds out that theres great information in peters head. So now he has that information. Thats where peter fights back. Stephen so the movie is taking place inside the head of the boy who is possessed by the demon. And again, lets get back to this. The demon himself is a demon inside the monkey whose inside of no one who is now inside of peter. The way they get the demon out is the spray. Its kind of like hair spray. [laughing] seriously. Stephen you can chase away a demon with hair spray . Its true. Stephen its true. Like aqua net . What are we talking about here . Regular hair spray. Stephen any old hair spray . Yeah. Maybe we could be like because its peters mind, he could imagine that he had, like, weapons. And then the weapons just, like, come into his hands. Stephen ooh, because when he imagines them in his mind, they actually turn real in his mind. So yeah, like if you imagine the sword, he gets a sword. If he imagines a lightsaber, he gets a lightsaber. Anything he imagines he gets. Stephen i love that. All right, what is something scary the villain says . [whispering] i can hear you. [clapping] stephen you like that, ava . Very much. Stephen what about the soundtrack, you guys . What should the music in the tv series or movie were making sound like . Yes, maxwell. Maybe it should be, like, imagine dragons believer. Stephen can you sing a little bit for me . You take me up you take me down you take me up believer believer all the words thats in my head im fired up, tired of stephen voices in my head. Thats the fight between the angel and the demon, right . Yeah stephen whats the title of our movie . The chosen one. I can hear you but i dont know who you are. Stephen tell you what. Stand up. Just get together and talk to each other and tell me the answer. Come up with a title. Im really looking forward to finding out what the name of this movie is. The chosen one. I can hear you. Stephen all right, so whats the movie were going to make . One, two, three. Inside goodbye hello stephen thank you, kids. When we return, i will debut the spooky star filled trailer for inside goodbye hello . Two miles an hour so everybody sees you t two miles a an hour soso everybodydy sees yoyou siri vo f for 102 mililes, cocontinue strtraight. 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For those of you just joining us, previously on the late show, i sat down with a room full of kids to come up with a blockbuster scary movie called inside goodbye hello now im proud to announce that there has already been so much excitement from hollywood that theyve cast and shot the entire film in fact, we have an exclusive first look trailer [thunder rumbles] [creepy music] [pop goes the weasel playing] Ice Cream Truck music . Theres no ice cream. Theres none. [screaming] my name is peter. And i love to do bad stuff. Well, peter. Im taking you under my wing. Sergeant angelica. Demon detective. How can you possibly detect demons . Simple. I can cross my eyes and then, like, if a clone comes out of the body. I am tracking a demon that takes many forms. Hello. [hissing] a turducken of evil. [creepy music] oh, my gosh. Oh, this is really scary. That monkey is staring straight into my eyes. Dont be a baby. Its just an old toy i found under your bed. [screaming] [screaming] hello, peter. Who are you . [laughing] im no one. Okay, youre no one. But, like, whats your name . I dont have one. How is that possible . Honey. Hes beautiful. Yeah, absolute perfection. What should we call him . I dont know. Yeah, me neither. Well, then. [dramatic music] wake up. Peter youre a demon. Imagine sword. Imagine lightsaber. And of course imagine dragons. This is a special version just for you, peter. Hit it. First things first ima say all the voices in my head im fired up and tired of the voices in my head its probably just my dead grandma. You take me up, you take me down believer believer your weapons have no effect on me. Here, peter. Try this. Oh, not the hair spray no believer stephen thank you to the entire cast of inside goodbye hello and to imagine dragons for that spooky new version of believer they made for us. They will be releasing the whole new song on halloween. You can check out a preview on their tiktok right now ill be right t back withh kerrrry w washington. N. 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But these midterm elections, this is when we elect local and state leaders that make the real decisions. Secretaries of state that protect our free and fair elections, make sure that our vote counts. Stephen however you feel about any of the issues out there, how you feel doesnt matter unless the vote gets counted and the secretaries of state and the attorneys general in those states. Kerry in some states theres a lot of governors races. In pennsylvania, the governor appoints secretary of state. Its important. Im going to a bunch of states to let people know no matter what you think, your vote matters. I want your vote to count. Thats what a democracy is. Stephen and there are hundreds of candidates this year. Kerry yes. Stephen there are hundred hundreds of candidates this year at a state level who questioned the validity of our elections and ask yourself when you go vote, who believes in every vote being counted and who doesnt and vote for the person who believes in counting. Kerry in 2020, people came out in record numbers. All of the states started having all of these new laws that make it more difficult to vote. People do that. They come for you when theyre afraid of your power. So some people are afraid of the voice of the people and they dont want your vote to count. So we have to make sure that we are electing officials that are protecting every vote. [cheers and applause] stephen the new movie that we just saw a clip of, its called the school for good and evil. Whats it about . Kerry its about a school for good and evil. Stephen there you go. Kerry [laughs] its about a school that trains future heroes and villains to kind of fulfill their destiny. Stephen in a fairy tale context. Kerry yeah, the children of all of your favorite fairy tale heroes and villains, their kids go to the schools ands to girls who wind up in what they think is the wrong school, these best friends and they figure out maybe its not always so black and white. 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Stephen hey, everybody were back with the star of the school for good and evil, kerry washington. People may not know this about you. You also direct. How did that start . Kerry i just directed the pilot of a new show on hulu called reasonable doubt. Im super proud of it. Its very sexy, exciting, very cool show. But i started directing because my friend common, the great hiphop legendary artist, he called me hes amazing. He called me a few years ago. Have a new album out on a song called i want you and he called and said do you want to be the girl in the video . I did want to be the girl in the video but i also didnt want to be objectified. I wanted to have some control. So i said yeah, if i can direct it. And he said yes. Stephen it just came out . Did you know youre going to ask . Kerry i had no idea was going to ask. He said right of treatment and submitted like all the other directors. I was like oh, god, i came up with this concept and wrote a treatment and submitted it in the company, the Recording Company is that what its called . Its not my business. The label liked my pitch the most and that i was like oh, crap, i have to direct this thing. And then i had a blast. Stephen what do you like about it . You have to keep a lot going on. Youre at the top of the pyramid looking down on everything that happens in the production. Whats the most appealing aspect of that to you . Kerry i like to not think of it as the top of the pyramid because i feel like its a much more communal effort. I do feel like youre kind of leading the troops. I guess i like, as a producer and director, being able to create an opportunity for people to do their best work. Stephen you also are doing Something Like this in another show where you interview stars. Its called the street you grew up on. Kerry its on my youtube channel. Stephen the early life of the streets they grew up on. Spech and my company is called simpson street, the name of the street in the bronx that my mother grew up on. Boogie down bronx. So we had the show where we interview people in the public eye about specific details about where you grew up and how that impacts we are today. Stephen what are the sort of things kerry the first question that i ask to get to know the name of the street i ask people are sexy alter ego name, otherwise known as their porn name. See when i used to know that. Kerry the street you grew up on, the name of your first pet followed by the street you grew up on. Whats your sexy alter ego name . Stephen um. Caesar honeybee. Kerry thats really good thats really good. Thats really kind of hot. Stephen thank you. Kerry its also may be a really good salad dressing. Stephen whats yours . Kerry mine is trick or treat pugsley. I had two hamsters, trick or treat. My moms is the best because shes simpson. I was like mom, you didnt have any pets growing up. She said we did we had a cat named big boy. My mothers porn name is big boy simpson. Stephen kerry, it was lovely to have you here. Thank you so much for being here. The school for good and evil is available on netflix. Kerry washington, everybody. Well be right back with a performance by joe walsh. Goli, taste your goals. Baback in the e day, snsneaker dropops meant gettining online t to waitit in line. Now wiwith xfinityty mobile. We get t the fastesest mobilele service and cacan get the e freshest kicks asasap. I got ththis. Get ththe best pririce for 2 s of unlimitited when yoyou switch t to xfinity y mobiler 30 0 a line perer month. Nicece job, littttle sis ththey grow upup so fast. Im m a fan. Frfrom xfinityty. Stephen his annual vets aid concert takes place in columbus, ohio, on november 13 and will be streaming worldwide. Performing Rocky Mountain way with joe vitale, louis cato and the late show band, joe walsh. [applause] i spent the last year Rocky Mountain way couldnt get much higher out to pasture think its safe to say time to open fire and we dont need crying cause the storys sad cause the Rocky Mountain way is better than the way we had yes, it is. Well, hes tellin us this and hes tellin us that changes it every day says it doesnt matter bases are loaded and caseys at bat playin it play by play time to change the batter and we dont need the ladies crying cause the storys sad crying cause the storys sad cause the Rocky Mountain way is better than the way we had [distorted vocals] [cheers and applause] thank you, everybody stephen joe walsh, everybody if you want to help out with vets aid, go to vetsaid. Org. Thats it for the late show. Good night, yall