Geai and musical gut aturing john bte and homin. And now, live from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome to a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Its midjuly, and despite our best quarantine efforts, yesterday america set a new record for daily coronavirus cases. Way more than when we started quarantining back in march. Its almost as if that celebrity imagine video didnt help. Should we try another one . Maybe sugar pie, honey bunch. Sugar pie, honey bunch in florida alone, new cases over the past week outstripped the total count in most european nations. That is a shocking vacuum of leadership in a state that, i will remind you, has an entire hall of president s. Cant we just plug an extension cord into one of those old guys and put him in charge . I cannot tell a lie. This country has really screwed the pooch. Stephen thank you, general. All the people in charge who told us the pandemic wasnt a big deal are looking big dumb right now, like oklahoma governor and
Pretty hard. Stephen thanks for sharing that story with me, alexander. Just alex. Tonight stephen welcomes, Alexander Skarsgard, natasha leggero, and ziggy marley. Featuring jon and stay human. Now its time for the late sho e late show with Stephen Colbert captioning sponsored by cbs band playing late show theme cheering and applause cheering and applause Stephen Stephen thank you so much thats good thank you very much. Thats very generous of you. Please sit down. I think ive sucked enough of your life force out of you for now. Welcome to the late show, im Stephen Colbert. Hell of a game last night. Everyone see it . If you didnt, the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Golden State Warriors in game seven to win the nba championship woooooo cheering and applause stephen and hold on. For all my golden state fans out there, wooooooooo. You didnt watch you watched . I watched. I love the game. Stephen basketball had to win. For reasons of ratings, i dont want you to tell us. I was happy with the
Peaceful, smoldering democracy. laughter i believe we have some footage of baghdad at the height of the surge. cheers . Stephen okay. laughter there were a few upticks in violence, but for the most part, when we left the sunni and the shia were bronies. It was especially nice to see the return of the leader of the iraq pack, old dead eyes. He crawled out from under his undisclosed rock to point an icy finger of truth at barack obama. In an oped in what many are calling the wall street journal, cheney writes, rarely has a u. S. President been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Yes, rarely, maybe only one other time. laughter applause of course, the liberals, the liberals cheers , of course, the liberal media went right after him, especially left wing loon megyn kelly. Time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in iraq, sir. You said there was no doubt Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would be greeted as liberators. You
You on my ongoing war with amazon. Last week i broke the story of something about me. You see, amazon is in heated contract negotiations with my publisher hachette. Theyre delaying shipment of amazons most popular author, including me. [audience booing] oh, dont make me unleash these dosmtion folks, this is terrible. I am one of my favorite authors. Its not just me. Because of amazons scorchedearth tactics, more people are getting screwed than in fifty shades of grey. So i told amazon c. E. O. Jeff bezos, its go time, lex loser. Before i knew it, my courageous stand created a firestorm all over the internet, and unlike rihanna, i didnt even have to show sideboob. I even offered. Now, i dont know if you know, this but im great guy. So i did this not just for me, but for the firsttime novelists like edan lepucki, whose hachette book california could not be preordered on amazon, a death sentence for a new book. I asked do you go to colbertnation. Com and preorder california from powells b
From Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. We prepared program for you this evening, very exciting. Tonights guest, Christopher Walken will be joining us in a new movie called jersey boys. The story of four young men who achieved success despite the terrible disadvantage of being from new jersey. [laughter] we do the best we can. But first, remember that country we invaded a little while back. No, no, that was too far back. No, no, that was. No, that was a shadow coup. That wasnt an invasion. That was a police action. That was a giant step for all mankind. Im talking about iraq. Thats the rock. Thank you. Iraq. Remember . We invaded it because 9 11 and weapons and then we had to pretend that we were really trying bring democracy and stability to the middle east. I dont remember what happened o