Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight the song unsung. Plus, stephen welcomes josh gad. And tamron hall. And a performance by tiana major9 and earthgang. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape at the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause theme song playing whoo hey welcome, one and all, up there, down here, out there, everybody watching right now. Tremendous. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause folks, if you have been watching the tv, you know its an historic solid day that will forever alter the fabric of american democracy. So, thursday. Because this afternoon, the senate officially opened the impeachment trial of president donald john trump. cheers and applause ill tell you all about it in tonights don and the giant impeach. Mouth to mouth resuscitation. laughter stephen i dont know what that means, but i like it. laughter last night, the house sent a formal proc
Its called evidence [ laughter ] in President Trumps letter, he accused nancy pelosi of declaring open war on american democracy and said, quote, you do not know, nor do you care the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family. This letter is bonkers [ light laughter ] i dont even know how to describe the tone of it. I guess if you took the most privileged white lady ever and gave her a whole bottle of wine and then asked her to write a yelp review of a restaurant that made her wait 40 minutes for a table and then got her order wrong twice. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause President Trump campaign is reportedly planning to spend almost 400,000 this week on antiimpeachment ads, which seems unnecessary when the best antiimpeachment ad has as office down the hall [ laughter ] according to officials, President Trump believes that the more he repeats something, the more likely his supporters are to believe it. Though there are some limits [ laug
Democrats in the house made donald trump only the third person, president ever to be impeached. This morning he woke up on the floor next to his tanning bed and tweeted the words i got impeached last might. Yes, and our Long National mightmare continues. Not a single republican voted for impeachment, which means they either really like donald trump or really hate mike pence. But the debate went on well into the night. Trump was in battle creek, michigan when the vote happened, pepping himself up with a rally. And this is what the president was talking about when the Impeachment Vote was coming in. The dish washer, you press it. Thered be an explosion. Five minutes later, you open it up, the steam pours out, now you press it 12 times. Women tell me, again, they give you four drops of water, and theyre in places where theres so much water they dont know what to do would it. Jimmy okay, grand pa, i have to hang up the phone now. Trump also lashed out at Debbie Dingell from michigan. Shes
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 whi