Nancy announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, impeacher of the house plus stephen welcomes Scarlett Johansson and a performance by the weeknd 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 hi there cheers and applause that is such a good thursday crowd, i wish they could stick around and be the friday crowd. Youre amazing. Never going to happen though. Anyway jon yeah. Stephen welcome to the late show, everybody. Im your shows Stephen Colbert. There is cheers and applause you feel this excitement . Jon i feel it. Stephen you feel the electricity . Its like the room is soaked with gasoline theres imagine income the air here cheers and applause magic stephen hey magic here at the late show. You know why its the merger of cbs and viacom. I know them by their celebrity couple name, the people that pay me. laughter to celebrate the merger, viacomcbs got to ring nasda
The it hearkens back to the days when we had three channels on tv and Nothing Better to watch than lights going on. Its an honor to be with everyone tonight and all across our land. Melania and i would like to wish you a very, very merry christmas. And now the first lady will do the honors of lighting the National Christmas tree. So well count from five down to that very special number. [ laughter ] jimmy which very special number, one . All right, lets see if we request make can make it all the way down to one. Five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] jimmy oh, isnt that great . Look at that. Perfect. And melanias dressed just like the gifts they wrapped, too. Then they went on with music and performers. This is a family fun fest that started in 1923, and in my opinion, peaked when bush was president back in 1989. So we feel a Little Christmas right this very minute candles in the window we need a Little Christmas right this very minute we need a Little Christmas now hey jim
Apparently he just found out g7 doesnt mean you get to play seven rounds of golf [ laughter ] thats right President Trump will no longer hold the upcoming g7 summit at his golf resort in florida yeah, i guess it is a bad idea to commit an Impeachable Offense when youre already being impeached. [ laughter ] that would be like stabbing the bailiff at your murder trial [ laughter and applause House Speaker nancy pelosi today distributed a fact sheet outlining what she feels are President Trumps abuses of power. Even more impressive, getting it down to a sheet. [ laughter and applause [ cheers and applause politico has published a new article about the Campaign Expenses of the top democratic president ial candidates and found that former Vice President joe biden has spent nearly 4,000 on ice cream since july [ light laughter ] that would explain all the brain freezes. [ laughter and applause senator senator mitt romney admitted last night to having a secret twitter account in addition to h
All it takes to win risk chaos edition is to boldly declare victory and leave chaos in your wake you just lit the board on fire. Guess i win again. laughing hey, guys, i just got the new risk chaos edition. I win son of a bitch risk chaos edition, nothing means anything announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight burning it down plus stephen welcomes steve carell and musical guest toby keith, 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 theme song playing stephen hey there nice to see you i like it i like it thank you thank you cheers and applause thank you, dear friends. Welcome. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. And folks cheers and applause in light of the darkness that is the trump presidency, id like to start tonight with something nice. Last night, gymnastics World Champion simone biles threw out the first pitch at game two of the wo
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