Keep up the great work. You too. Coming up, Cynthia Erivo is going to perform live. Well be right back. Learnethe government is e naon re trowing afy. Deere to dock. Breaking new developments for those two cruise ships stranded at sea with more than 200 sick passengers on board now off the coast of florida. Breaking overnight, the mayor of los angeles now urges everyone to wear Face Coverings in public as the cdc weighs making a new recommendation nationwide. How to make your own, to avoid taking supplies away from those who need them most. As families all across the country face this disease, the emergency hitting close to home. Georges wife ali announcing shes tested positive. So what started was i had a real tightness in my chest. The latest on alis condition this morning and her message to the gma family. Good morning, america. Its great to have you with us on this thursday morning. We have a lot of headlines to get to including one thats affecting the gma family. And, george, we a
Jimmy all right, ready . Ready. All right, am i going to come in like its like im the guest. Jimmy unless you want to put in a dun da da dun da da or, whatever yeah, yeah. Whatever you want. I got my piano here what would the roots plays on my entrance . In Washington Heights jimmy oh welcome, welcome, linmanuel you are our very first guest for the tonight show home edition. Thank you so much for doing this and how are you dealing with everything hows everything at home everything is cool. We are doing the cool thing to do which is selfquarantining, which means we are home withe k 2yearold and so we are learning how to homeschool jimmy oh my god. I agree with shonda rimes tweet every teacher should make a billion dollars a year. Jimmy i mean, like, oh my gosh right . How hard is this . Its insane. Yeah. You know what . I mean, listen, we have incredible privilege that we have the privilege of staying home, when a lot of peoples jobs require them to go out. And so were tackling keeping
Jon so celebrate two wonderful things at once, with jon batiste sings classic valentines dayblack History Month love songs. And have a happy black valentines day History Month. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, biden headed south. Plus stephen welcomes James Marsden, sam heughan, with a special appearance by john oliver, 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 there we go hey nice to see you cheers and applause jon theyre ready, theyre ready. Its thursday stephen thats an amazing audience. I wish these people had been here last night laughter jon i feel fat. Stephen welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause happy, happy thursday, everybody. The democratic primaries are off and running. So far, weve seen results from iowa and new hampshire. Next, the campaign moves on to a caucus in nevada. Which is perfe
It is so nice to be here with you talking about your new book the witches are coming. I want to start by asking you because your writing in this book is always is very funny. Would you call yourself a humor writer . I think so thank you. [laughter] people love to call me a comedian which i dont think it is accurate because i dont do standup comedy. I did a long time ago its very hard and i do not like it. I am a comedy writer with the comedy tv show and i am a humor writer thats my main mission. As a writer Political Writer and cultural critic how is humor a useful entry point . And thats like to write but it feels like a great way to sell challenging concepts or con people into consuming challenging ideas. Because even back when i was a film critic i always try to make everything funny or everything piece of entertainment in itself. Because if you can make something funny you can get people to swallow stuff like big feminist ideas are radical political concepts are things that are cha
Recently reversed four decades of policy by declaring that israeli settlements in the west bank are not in violation of international law. We have just returned from the west bank and saw some of those roughly 250 settlements and outposts. But we also visited a brandnew city built by a palestinian for palestinians, high on a hill. ticking holy moley, look at this. This is it. This is the best the best. Whoa youve known adam sandler for longer than you remember. 30 years ago he was hired as a writer, and then cast member of saturday night live. Operaman bye bye we wanted to know why he left snl, about all those movies, and why he chose this new one, a drama. I dont care. It needs to be changed. Do it. But first thats called a perfect pass the sand man wanted to play some pick up hoops. Right on baby. ticking im lesley stahl. Im Bill Whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories and more, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking before we talk about taxsmart inve