Journalist and author who covers the billionaires who rule the world anand giridharadas. cheers and applause also on tonights show, College Athletes are about to be rich, a democratic candidate murdered a duck, and donald trump is getting impeached. cheers and applause trevor yeah whoo thats right give it up for president mike pence all right, lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with one of the greatest viral videos in a long time. Some pretty incredible video from chicagos ohare airport. A catering truck packed with beverages spinning out of control on the tarmac. You can see a lot of airport workers are surrounding it, they dont know how to stop the thing. It went on for a while, but as the truck gets dangerously to hitting the plane, a hero comes forward to saving the day. Thats how you do it. Like that, the chaos is over, turns out a case of water fell on the gas pedal, thats what caused the truck to keep spinning and spinning. Trevor holy shit. That is the craziest
Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight uu. K. In the membrane. Plus, stephen welcomes Renee Zellweger Walton Goggins and a special appearance by new zealands Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. 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 come on hi there thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, chris. Nick and mark, every up there, down, there out there, around the world. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Ladies and gentlemen cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, get out your sextants, your compass, your astrolabes because we are in uncharted waters. Because after two and a half years of the trump presidency, we finally spotted the great orange whale, and let me tell you, thar he blows. laughter , this morning this morning, the administration, for some reason, released the official notes of trumps phone call with ukrainian president volodymyr zele
And were trying to do the same thing with cars. Cars have so much junk on them now to save a tiny little fraction of gasoline. It can be a little bit heavier. siren when somebody hits me, i want to be in as close to an army tank as possible. alarm the best is yet to come. Thank you very much, president trump. Thank you. cheers and applause its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, hispandering. Plus, stephen welcomes senator Elizabeth Warren and the brady bunch. 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 wooo hello welcome cheers stephen thank you folks, welcome, one and all, to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Big weekend applause big doings. First of all, i want to say to everybody here who works at the show and everybody watching happy 800th late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight is the 800th show. Jon oh, my goodness stephen how many did we say we wer
E late show with Stephen Colbert. Plus, stephen welcomes Patricia Heaton and musical guests tegan sara. 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, whats going on . Nice to see you cheers and applause stephen seat, everybody. Welcome, one and all, in here, out there, all around the world. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. The big story cheers and applause friday crowd. Friday crowd right there. Now, the big story all week long has been the impeachment inquiry of donald trump, a historic event that everyone saw coming the moment he announced his candidacy. Everybody applause riding down the esk lairpt like that. Everybody saw is except donaldtp called the president of ukraine and asked for political favors, hes been forced to face something hes never had to before consequences. laughter and trump has no one else to blame but donald trump, because it
[ cheers and applause jimmy oh, my goodness. Thanks so much thank you. Please, please, have a seat. [ cheers and applause i love you i love you i appreciate it. Thank you very much. Sit down, relax. Welcome to the tonight show, everybody. Youre here and you made it. Im happy. [ cheers and applause you guys, my guest tonight is one of the alltime greats Sylvester Stallone is here [ cheers and applause backstage i asked him, can i get you something to drink water, soda . He was like, raw eggs. Steve really jimmy yeah [ laughter ] Sylvester Stallone is here i knew hed arrived in the billing when all 12 Security Guards downstairs were sprawled out on the floor unconscious [ laughter ] but it is great that hes here, cause i love having guests on the show that have the same workout routine as me. [ laughter ] stallone stars in the new movie rambo last blood. Yeah and this is strange. Hes also starring in the new Downton Abbey movie. Isnt that wild . [ laughter ] thats right rambo last blood