Transcripts For KPIX The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 20170705

This thursday, thursday, thursday, watch the big man testify announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes Tilda Swinton. Andy cohen. And Jordan Klepper. 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 hey, hey hey, everybody right there. Whats up . Thank you very much. Hey, matt. Good to see you. Looking nice. Summertime. Smooth. Atticus. Atticus finch. Hey, everybody youre very kind. Folks, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause man, theres so much to talk about tonight, im going to do two monologues. Okay, all right . Can we do that . Lets do the first one. You can feel the excitement in this room right now. I i am excited. cheers and applause its its its the most magical night of the year because its comey testimony eve. Im ready. I have the decorations up. I hung my socks up over cnn. Got to put a few more of them up. I can still see wolf blitzer. I mean, you can feel the anticipation . cheers and applause i can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it comey in the air tonight oh, lord drum riff thank you very much. cheers and applause im not the only one ready to party. Because tomorrow, bars in the capitol are opening early and offering drink specials like the covfefe cocktail. laughter absolutely true. Not made up. Covfefe is made up, but the cocktail is real. Thats a cute name. If you come up with a name, orange russian is right there. Just take a white russian, toss in some cointreau and a pinch of cat hair. Youre all good. People are calling comeys testimony washingtons super bowl. Yeah. And i hear Animal Planet is even airing the puppy comey testimony. Comeys testimony could be clovis. And today, we got the pre splosion. Because at comeys insistence, the Senate Published his pre written opening remarks. This afternoon and. I have them right here. cheers and applause you guys know that. You know this . He published this. This is true. They just published it, like, a couple of hours ago, and this thing is full of juicy details because, as promised, comey took notes after every interaction with donald trump, starting with their first meeting back in january, when comey writes, i felt compelled to document my first conversation with the president elect in a memo. To ensure accuracy, i began to type it on a laptop in an f. B. I. Vehicle outside trump tower the moment i walked out of the meeting. applause dear diary, i needed to write down my thoughts immediately because that guy is so darn normal. laughter note to self can you purell your brain . Love, me. Now, all in all all in all, comey says he spoke with trump nine times in four months. In contrast, he spoke with president obama only twice during his entire tenure. Once in 2015 to discuss Law Enforcement policy issues, and a second time, briefly, for him to say goodbye in late 2016. Oh, and a third time a couple weeks ago when he asked if i wanted to just say, screw it and go hang out with him and oprah on Richard Bransons yacht. applause although lets go. Lets go. Were going to kite sail. Fantastic. Comey first met with trump on january 6 to let him know about some socalled salacious intelligence peepee tape saying he agreed to do the meeting alone to minimize potential embarrassment to the president elect. Remember, this was back when we thought it was possible for him to feel embarrassment. laughter and at one of their meetings, evidently, comey writes that trump said, he had nothing to do with russia, had not been involved with hookers in russia. applause cheers comey replied, i understand, mr. President , but i just asked what you had for breakfast. laughter never paid for breakfast in my life. Comey also described a dinner he had with trump just after the inauguration. When he was invited, comey assumed other people would be attending, of course, but when he showed up, it turned out to be just the two of them, seated at a small oval table. Oh, come on. Thats the oldest trick in the book you invite your f. B. I. Director over for a movie, saying its going to be a group thing, just the two of you. Cant make netflix work, so you know. applause so you obstruct justice. laughter and just as comey suspected, trump dropped a bombshell. At the meeting, the president said, i need loyalty. I expect loyalty. Comey says, i didnt move, speak, or change my facial expression in any way during the awkward silence that followed. laughter applause he didnt move. Didnt move a muscle. Basically, comey treated trump like the trex in jurassic park. It makes sense. They both have the samesized hands. cheers and applause i cant tear it. With hands that small, you cant tear anything. laughter theres a lot of weird stuff in this document. For example, trump frequently referred to the scandal as the cloud, telling comey that the russia investigation was a cloud, and asking what he could do to lift the cloud. Mr. President , thats not a cloud. Meteorologists call that a bleep storm. cheers and applause and in their final conversation, in their final conversation, comey writes trump said, i have been very loyal to you, very loyal. We had that thing, you know. i did not reply or ask him what he meant by that thing. cheers and applause and, according to comeys testimony, that was the last time i spoke with President Trump. Oh, so it has a happy ending. laughter tomorrow, comeys going to say all of this out loud and senators will get to ask him questions about it for hours. Well have more on this. Im pretty excited. You know whos not excited . Thank you, citizen. Ill tell you who is not excited. The president. Evidently, the russia investigation is really taking a toll on trump. According to one insider, he now lives within himself, which is a dangerous place for donald trump to be. Hes emotionally withdrawing. Hes gained weight. He doesnt have anybody whom he trusts. Okay, i know what this is i know what this is. He is entering his fat goth phase. Hell get over it. Hell work through it. We all work through it. According to aides, trump is glued even more than usual to the cable news. Even more . How is that possible . Is he hiding behind the couch at fox friends . laughter what are you saying . Dont say that. But trump isnt going to take comeys testimony lying down. White house Officials Say hes keen to be a participant rather than just another viewer, which could include the possibility of taking to twitter to offer acerbic commentary during the hearing. Oh, tweeting during the hearing i cant wait to see the tweets despite this slanderous testivfefe. laughter applause thats it. Makes as much sense. I know what it means. I know what it means. A small group of us know what that means. And its not just the tweeting. According to trump confidant and grumpy mayor of appletown, newt gingrich, trumps not going to let some guy like that smear him without punching him as hard as he can. Not that hard, again, given the size of his hands. But the punching has already started. A protrump organization and this is absolutely true has made attack ad against james comey. As head of the f. B. I. , james comey put politics over protecting america. When terror attacks were on the rise last year, comey was consumed with election meddling. James comey just another d. C. Insider only in it for himself. Paid for by Great America alliance. Stephen as Mahatma Gandhi once said, what the hell was that . laughter in case youre keeping track of norms that have been violated, this is a big one though it may not feel like it, because we see attack ads all the time. But normally theyre against people running for something. Comey is not. Comey is now a private citizen, called to testify. You might as well make an attack ad about one of my audience members out here. Like this guy as an audience member, this guy put his viewing experience over protecting america. Ever since taking his seat, hes just been laughing while doing nothing to combat terror. Enoughs enough. Some say this guy is a good audience member. But what do we really know about him . I know i dont trust him around my baby. Stephen neither do i. laughter applause this guy wrong for seat 12. Wrong for america. cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. Tilda swinton is here. But when we return, were going to do another monologue. More chaos at the white house. Stick around. Discover card. How can i help you . Oh, youre real . You know im real at discover, were always here to talk. Good, cause i dont have time for machines. 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Align, press and unzip. band playing cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody, welcome back jon batiste and stay human, right there. Give it up for the band looking nice. Youre looking nice. Please have a seat, everybody. Youre very kind. I like it. I like it. I like the poplin for the summertime, jon. Its very atticus finch. I was talking about comeys testimony before the senate tomorrow before i was so rudely interrupted by the sponsors who pay our salaries here. But were learning some telling details about the former f. B. I. Directors interactions with the president. For instance, trumps pressure to drop the russia investigation made comey so uncomfortable, he told attorney general jeff sessions, dont leave me alone with trump. laughter yeah. Which is a phrase you normally hear backstage at the miss u. S. A. Pageant. laughter cheers and applause and comey isnt the only one in Donald Trumps sights. Jeff sessions has been on his naughty list since attorney general recused himself from the russia investigation. In fact, it came out today that sessions recently offered to resign, telling President Trump he needed the freedom to do his job. His job, yes, which looking at him, is baking cookies in an old oak tree. I offer my resignation. I cant have you looking over my shoulder when i am frosting those wafers. Me and my elves are leaving laughter sessions offered to resign. This is a big deal. Back last february, he was the first senator to endorse trump. As you can see from this leaked copy of his resignation back last february, he was the first my dearest donald, it is with a heavy heart and hollowed bird line bones that i submit this, my letter of resignation. Together on the porch in birmingham, sing sweet tea with our secret friend sergey kislyak. Shhh ive said too much. But that dream is now buried. 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I mean, you just have to keep plowing on and you hope your friends will tell you and you dont see the movie. Thats most important thing. Stephen do you not see your own stuff . Yeah, i do, and then i dont, and then i forget, and then i move on. Stephen how do you do the forgetting part . Oh, thats so easy at my age, stephen. laughter im really ancient, you know. Stephen oh, yeah, i saw doctor strange. Youre an ancient one. I just want to get out, fanlike right now, i think one of the greatest performances i have seen from you or anyone is your character from michael clayton. Oh, thank you. Stephen your no moral compass lawyer, trapped in that moment. Well, that was a part written by tony gillroy, just beyond any part. He noticed, which i love, those bad guys, they think theyre good. They think theyre really, really good. She thinks shes such a good person. And shes serving the big daddy, and shes wrong. Stephen how did you get involved in acting . Some people are greatly inspired by a single person. They say, i want to be that person. Comedians, when i was younger, i said, i want to get that persons voice. I want to do that. Was there someone like that for you . I never really wanted to be an actor. I still really dont want to be an actor. laughter its true. Stephen i have some terrible news. Im just distracted. I have been distracted for 30 years. The best performance i have ever seen and continues to be an inspiration for me is a donkey in a great film by robert blesson. And im not joking, actually. Its the best stephen a live donkey. Probably about five of them because, you know, you have to swap them out, like twins for babies. Stephen right, like the olsen twins. No, the stephen theyre twins. I know, but they werent swapped out. Stephen they were. There was only one of them and they swapped them out. Im not joking. You did not watch full house. I dont know how to break it to you. Im writing it down. Stephen so a donkey inspired you . A donkey inspired me because you just cant stop, look at the donkey and there are all the humans around and you go, get out of the way. I want to look at the donkey. Stephen i can understand that. Theyre so natural. Every time i see you in a movie, youre thinking, how would a donkey do this part . laughter how do your directors feel about that . Because you you dont have classical training its a secret. Im not telling anybody this. Its just between us. Stephen well cut off the cameras. Well edit this part out. You are something of a fashion icon. You have done art installation pieces. You went and publicly napped at moma, right . Yeah, yeah. Stephen okay, youre very cool. laughter youre very cool. You look cool. You do cool things. cheers and applause and i like to ask this question of people who i think are extraordinarily cool. I asked this question of david byrne is it a burden to be so cool . To be so cool. Stephen if youre ordinary in any way, people go, not as cool as i thought. I feel like you have a butterfly net and youre coming at me and ill back off. Stephen i dont mean crazy. A little eccentric, maybe. Maybe. Stephen is there pressure to be arty . No, i mean, how can i answer that . I dont really know what youre talking about . laughter . Stephen i guess im just trying to find the secret of how to do it because i feel like like what did you whats the least whats the most lowbrow thing youve done recently . You seem very arty, very high brow. Whats the most common, know, common man lowbrow thing you have done . Where do i start . I live in the highlands of scotland. The day before yesterday i was washing my dogs who had rolled in a dead seal on the beach. laughter . Stephen they rolled in a dead seal. And i come to manhattan and its all very sparkly and i get a velvet jacket and sit down with you. This is highbrow for me. Believe me, where i live, its underground low. Stephen i bet the highlands of scotland still seems cool, seems kind of cool. Its not the lowlands of scotland. Its the highlands of scotland. Its true. Stephen i was in the highlands of new jersey yesterday picking up my dry cleaning. So you still live youre not from scotland, though, youre from london . Im from the lowlands, but i then moved to the highlands. Stephen whats the difference . I made a joke but i dont know the difference . You have been. Stephen i had driven as far north once when i was 22, just above loch ness, actually, inverness. Thats more or less where i live and theres more to go as well. Stephen it gets narrow up there. And not many roads. But its quite a small country, scotland, but like lots of little countries its hopping with stuff. Stephen do you think it might snap off from the u. K. , because theres talk it might snap off like a Graham Cracker and go to europe. The reality is were in europe and we would like to stay in europe. And the other reality is we are an independent country. Its just england that isnt. Stephen oh, wow, wow. Throwing some shade. Throwing some shade. Shade england, after 800 years. Im just being accurate. I live in a village i say village. In scotland we call it a town but by american standards its not supersized. Nairne. They say its the fastest town in scotland, naaaairne laughter applause stephen you have a new movie. Yes. Stephen the same director who did snow piercer. And the host and memories of murder and mother. Stephen its called okja. And what is the movie about . Its a love story between a young girl and her best friend who is a massive pig, the size of a an elephant. Stephen and i understand that your character plays the the bioengineering sort of farm conglomerate owner who created this pig . Yes. Its also about the food industry. And i play the heir, to a really scary dynasty with a hideous toxic past, and ive decided to make it all sexy and modern and woke. And so laughter i decide to feed the world because, you know, the worlds hungry and no ones feeding the world. So i create genetically modify i say that we secretly discovered this piglet on a farm in chile, and its all terribly natural and organic, but we genetically modify a massive pig to feed the world and hold the competition to see the most beautiful pig. And it all goes badly wrong. Stephen and it all goes badly wrong and in this next clip, i believe, youre upset. Im upset because there has been bad p. R. , and p. R. , as we know, is the only important thing. The synthesis of old mirando, and new mirando was impeccable. I took nature and science, and i synthesized, and everyone loved it. You remember what the New York Times said about our super pigs . Lucy mirando is pulling off the impossible. She is make us fall in love with a creature that we are already looking forward to eating. I mean, these are journalists who never write about pigs. They never write about pigs they wrote about our pigs cheers and applause stephen and its delicious, right . You have to see it. You have to see it. Stephen okja. Okja. And its going to be on netflix. Stephen it premieres on netflix, in fact, and in select theaters on june 28. Got to see it. Stephen thank you so much for being here, tilda. Thank you. Stephen well be right back with our friend andy cohen. Stick around. Are you still trying to perform with an old computer . Thats like lebron. Trying to perform with old equipment. Ooh. Well that is not what the fans signed up to see. Is outdated Equipment Holding you back . Upgrade your game to intels fastest processor. You should probably upgrade those, too. You give us comfort. And we give you bare feet. I love you, couch. Backsweat and gordos everything. I love you, but sometimes you stink. New febreze fabric refresher with odorclear technology. Cleans away odors like never before. Because the things you love the most can stink. 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I dont know how you have time to do anything with all the things you do. You squeezed us into your schedule. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Stephen one of the things i love to talk to you about, youre an open book. I am an open book. T. M. I. Stephen in fact, your book superficial more adventures from the andy cohen diaries just came out in softback today. Yesterday, paperback. A great beach read. Stephen great beach read because if it gets wet, you can ring it out. Its fantastic. Thats not why its a great beach read. Stephen are you still keeping a diary . You know, im not. Thats two years of my life, and it became existentially exhausting. Stephen did you only diary for those two years. I did it before that. It was my second book of diary. I actually had the occasion to have tea with the queen of soul last month, Aretha Franklin, and i was like, i think i might need to start writing another book. I did write that down. She summoned me to tea. Stephen i have never been invited to tea with Aretha Franklin or ruth bader ginsburg, or anyone. I think she wanted to prime me for information about the atlanta housewives if truth be told. Stephen what did you think was going to happen . Well, i thought she wanted to collaborate with me on something. Yes. Stephen do a duet . The amazing thing was at the end of the conversation we hung out about 40 minutes and she said, let me get your number. And i said, great. And she put my number in her phone as, mr. Cohen housewives. Which was so great. Because, if i met you at a bar and i was like, oh, man, this guy. Let me get your number. I would put, like, stephen waspy southerner. So im mr. Cohen housewives to Aretha Franklin. I like it, when she booty texts me later. Yeah. Stephen and hit you up . Yeah, right, exactly. Stephen you produce how many shows do you produce . A lot. A lot of housewives. Im an e. P. On Love Connection on fox. Stephen which youre the host of. Not politically, but just as a producer of reality television. Yeah. Stephen what do you think of the production that were getting out of the white house . What do you think of that as a drama . Well, i think well, its some kind of a drama. And i think whats interesting about the president is that hes he has remained as a season one real housewife orange county. He has never usually they evolve as the years ago. Theres a season one version who will do anything to stay on the show. And then they evolve, and they get their makeup and hair right. And we say, look, you have to watch what youre doing on twitter. Youre being crazy on twitter. Season two, theyre better. Hes stuck in the season one housewife mode and has a real housewife tag line. Stephen hold on, wait. He came up with he has many, but he came up with a tag line in the interview he did with Time Magazine about two months ago. And it was i can stand and do it . Stephen sure. It was. Things cant be that bad. Im president , and youre not. laughter i mean, thats a good tag line. Stephen thats a tag for the promo right there. I would watch that show. And i do. Yes. Stephen and i do watch that show. We all do. Stephen you know what he needs . He needs an andy cohen. Yeah. Stephen go straighten that place out. Just what i want to do. laughter stephen okay, you, i found out today, you used to host the Miss Universe pageant. I hosted a few pageant for him. Stephen what was that like . It was it was fine. laughter it came to the point no, i actually loved hosting the pageant. Stephen did he ever come into your dressing room backstage . Light groping no. It got to the point where they were bringing the pageant to moscow, Miss Universe. laughter stephen thats dossier, right . Right. And i emailed the headline of the organization, and i said, listen, you realize that all the people involved in the pageant who arent the women are day of gay dudes. And you are bringing all these gay guys to russia, where putin had just passed a lot of anti gay legislation. I said, i think this is wrong, and i think you should reconsider, and for me to host the show and die travelogue about how great moscow is, that seems a little weird. And so they didnt move it. And i said, okay im not going to do it. And word got out that i was not going to do it and was boycotting this pageant. So he called the post and said, we never offered him the job. Stephen oh. What a tool. cheers and applause now i know why it was so urgent to do the pageant in moscow. Stephen got to get over there. I know. Stephen Love Connection, lets talk about this. The Chuck Woolery classic from 1983. Yes. Stephen youre now the host of Love Connection. Anything different about it . So much. We have them rate each others looks based on First Impressions at the beginning of the date and i reveal the scores. Stephen to each other at the end . Yes, its amazing, yeah, its amazing. Stephen do the scores go up or down . No, it would be usually what happens is they get to know each other, and they either stand by their score or theyre like, you know what . I gave you a three, but as it turns out youre a great person and now i think youre a 10. Thats kind of the goal. Stephen sure. laughter . And then, also, theres a little bit of a love or money twist at the end of every episode. Stephen love or money . Yeah, if the audience picks someone different than my Love Connection and theyre standing over there, i can go on a sexy overnight date with my Love Connection, stephen, or i can choose the audience pick and get 10,000. Stephen so if i like sandra but the audience picked sarah. Yes. Stephen wait, are sandra and sarah there . Yes. Stephen and they know yes. Stephen sandra knows i picked sandra, but how much money . 10,000. Stephen thats a lot of green, baby doll. Thats right. Stephen and 10,000 if i go, no sandra, yes, sarah. Yes. 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A country whose citizens are 25 times more likely to be murdered by a gun than any other civilized nation. Welcome to. America you overshot it. Back up, back, back, back. beeping good. The country im talking about is america. Stephen please welcome Jordan Klepper. cheers and applause stephen nice to see you. Good to see you. Stephen how have you been . Ive been well, you . Stephen im all right, im all right. Keep on keepin on. I think thats what youve got to do. Stephen you have a tough gig. Correspondent for the daily show. I wouldnt recommend it to anyone. Stephen no, no. It is it is a it is a career dead end. It is. You just stop. Stephen but now youre getting out of there. Youre shaking the dust to that place, and youre going to get youre getting the slot on Comedy Central at 11 30 after the daily show. The Jordan Klepper slot. Stephen exactly, exactly. Thats what stephen thats a tough row to hoe right there. They call that dead mans curve. Yeah. Stephen its haunted, you know. Really . Stephen we had hasan minhaj on here last night, and he every correspondent has a nightmare story of the field piece you get sent out. You get sent out with an idea, and youve got to bring the story back. And sometimes youve got to talk to people who you wouldnt ordinarily spend time with. Yeah, you go out into a world that you might not normally be a part of. Stephen yeah. I went to a lot of trump rallies over this past election cycle. Stephen yeah. Donald trump, he became the president. laughter but i would talk to a lot of the people at the rallies. It actually was fascinating to go over the course of that year. They they shifted. I mean, i would say right off the bat, they felt Like Campaign rallies, a little bit more. Going on. I would ask something, lets say, was barack obama a muslim . And right off the bat, i would say one out of 10 people would cop to Something Like that. Near the end that was so normalized, that was probably a seven out of 10. And the idea of some sort of fake news conspiracy going on was prevalent everywhere. And we were the fake news. I mean, they were right about us. laughter stephen youre part of the problem. Part of the problem. We found ourselves interviewing people at one of the last trump rallies we were at. There was a group hanging out behind the cameraman, and they were snickering, and we were like, whats going on. The cameraman said, theyre look at the battery pack. And it said l. V. C. , which is the name of the rental company. And they said its a name of the sect of the f. B. I. And were working for hillary clinton. And that was just the general vibe by the end. It was like everything its not as it seems anymore. Everything is an attack on what they hold dear. Stephen youre from michigan, right . Kalamazoo. applause stephen we like to have a few people from the home town of every guest. Yes, i appreciate that. Stephen we had some people from nairne earlier. Its a funny sounding town, kalamazoo. What got you into comedy . Was it because your town itself was funny . What inspired you . The motto of kalamazoo is, yes, there really is a kalamazoo. Stephen youre kidding . No, thats literally on all of the tshirts. Stephen wow. Its defensive right off the bat. Stephen that is self loathing at a level i havent seen in a town. Welcome to cleveland no, wait let me finish stephen Jordan Klepper solves guns, do you solve guns . I come real close to solving guns. Im hoping for the sequel. Stephen you went out there talking with people on both sides of the gun debate . Both sides of the gun debate. Stephen is there reason for hope . It is a terrible situation. One of the benefits of the daily show is you go out and talk to a lot of people. I did a bunch of pieces on guns, and i was shocked at how many people really did share a common point of view, and there was Common Ground on basic stuff that has been overlypoliticized on background checks, on funding, things like that. People did share the same point of view. It got really partisan, it got really wide. And i thought with some special, lets talk to people in the middle. And most people are in the middle. I went back to my home town, michigan, because thats pretty much in the middle. Stephen its literally in the middle. Its called the midwest, but you take away the west and its basically the middle. There are a lot of good people who are working against the political machine to try to make a difference. If i didnt solve it, i at least felt better there were people out there who were trying. Stephen all right, well get them next time. Jordan, good to see you. Jordan klepper solves guns is on Comedy Central june 11. Jordan klepper, everybody. Well be right back. 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