Stephen colbert. Tonight, angry white mail. Plus, stephen welcomes jamie foxx. 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 hey hi Stephen Lovely lovely welcome. Welcome, welcome, one and all. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It is just delightful, delightful to be with these people here tonight. Thank you for joining us tonight. Its impeachment eve. Its a magical time cheers and applause and like every impeachment eve, we put the kids to bed, but theyre all up listening hard to see if accountability is coming. Believe i believe but all they can hear is scrooge mctrump screaming, hum bug from his rooftop, and ill catch you up on the latest in tonights don and the giant impeach. I said you gotta do me a favor. Stephen all week, trumps been relatively quiet about his impending impeachment, but the pressure was building under the surface, because this afternoon, the lid blew off mount saint yellin. The eruption came in the form of a sixpage shriek addressed to nancy pelosi. Heres a taste your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for americas founding, and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our founders pledged their very lives to build. laughter as trump yes, a nation built on the belief that powerful white men face no consequences whatsoever. cheers and applause he tantrums on even worse than offending the founding fathers, you are offending americans of faith by continually saying i pray for the president , when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense. laughter what does that mean . I have no idea i have no idea what that means . What is a negative prayer . What would that even be . as trump your father, who arent i heaven, lets face it, nothin special about that name. The letter is a disorienting mishmash of dry legal language mixed in with trumps signature angry word smoothies. The articles of impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence. Dotdadotdot. You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment laughter okay. Okay. Happy now, nancy . Youve cheapened something very ugly that goes against everything trump stands for making very ugly things. Extremely expensive. cheers and applause now the letter the letter accuses the democrats of having dark motives. Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening. Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide 306227 and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat. My god is there anywhere, any occasion he wont brag about his Electoral College win . What do his condolence cards look like . Im so sorry for your loss. Almost as bad as hillarys loss to me, 306227. laughter cheers and applause thats so sweet. Thats really thats really jon kind of heartfeltish stephen so sweet, jon. Thank you. He continued so you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American People and nullify their votes. You view democracy as your enemy as trump whereas, i view democracy as a friend. With benefits. Because, under me, democracy is so screwed cheers and applause do you have a copy . Heres an actual copy of the damn thing. This is i dont know it is six pages long. It is six pages long, single spaced like this. The middle pages are basically just a cut and paste from his campaign website. Im not joking. He has space force in there. Judges. His nonbuilding of the wall. Unemployment why dont black people love me . And the usual puff and whine throughout the entire thing. Then trump complained about how damaging impeachment has been to those he loves. You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family. as trump youve hurt them all, from the innocent wife i cheated on with a porn star, to the poor kids whose mother i bailed on two wives ago, all of them. Trump also wrote cheers and applause trump also writes in the letter more due process was afforded to those accused in the salem witch trials. You know what . You know what . You know what . I agree with the president on this one. Fair is fair. We should throw him in the river. And and ill tell you what if he floats. Judge . A witch, witch stephen now, in slamming pelosi he brought out some of the fanciest words he knows. Your legacy will be that of turning the house of representatives from a revered legislative body into a star chamber of partisan persecution. How much do you want to bet he thinks a star chamber is a planetarium . laughter as trump and if youre going to make it a star chamber, nancy, then i demand that saturdays at midnight, you have laser zepplin. laughter now, shortly after the letter was released, trump appeared on camera to sum up what it took him six pages to say. Mister president , will you take any responsibility for the fact that youre about to be impeached . No, i dont take any. Zero, to put it mildly. Stephen yes, trump doesnt take any. He takes foreign assistance. He takes daddys handouts. He takes a handful of any woman who wanders into his gropezone, but he draws the line at responsibility. Now, while trump is publicly cheers and applause sure. Sure, why not . No responsibility. While trump is unraveling publicly, Democratic Candidates are trying to get the nomination sewn up. Ill tell you all about it in tonights doing it donkey style. Civil rights. Stephen theres a new controversy about south bend mayor and spelling bee contestant who just saw his parents in the audience, pete buttigieg. Petes been getting some pushback for his habit of holding closeddoor fundraisers for the big donors. Yesterday, we got a few photos of an event he held in napa at the Hall Rutherford wine caves, where he had dinner beneath a chandelier decked in 1,500 swarovski crystals. So in case you were wondering if the wealthy gather in underground bunkers to plot the fate of the working class. Yeah. laughter it was a decadent night. The buttiboosters enjoyed bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon worth 900, and ate off an onyx banquet table. Well, you gotta have onyx. You know how hard it is to get human sacrifice stains out of walnut . laughter other candidates jumped on mayor petes money party. Right after the photos came out, Bernies Campaign trolled buttigieg by buying the domain peteswinecave. Com. Thats pretty good jon they jumped right on that one. Stephen but buttigieg hit back at bernies favorite drink Poland Spring bottle that gets refilled with tap water until the label falls off dotnet. In other donkeyrelated developments, theres a new proposal from president ial candidate and obstetrician surprised to find out where babies come out, andrew yang. This week, yang announced that he wants to make psychedelic mushrooms more freely available. Chopper cheaper yeah, yeah, sure. Why not . Sure. Though, i gotta say. I dont know. I think there are already plenty available. Thats why so many people can visualize you as president. According to a recent tweet, yang was swayed when a veteran in davenport told yang that Psilocybin Mushrooms were the only treatment he found effective for his depression after returning home. Well, im all for candidates listening to voters, but yang changed his platform after talking to one guy. So, evidently, everyone gets one request. That explains yangs new billboard yang 2020 hey tim, was it friday or saturday that you needed to be picked up from the airport . applause close enough close enough close enough. Next up one the stylin donkey, big news this week from the campaign of vermont senator and man whose office mate is experimenting with natural deodorant, bernie sanders. Bernie is in second place nationally. Hes got huge support among democrats under age 35, but hes got a big generation gap problem, polling with just 2 with democrats over 65. Just 2 among seniors, bernie is trailing sitting by the door at a restaurant. Granddaughter majoring in womens studies, and too many damn remotes. laughter applause we have a great show tonight but first, time to move on clearly. First you know whats going to happen now. First were going to do meanwhile. Now, normally we would go to commercial right now, but would you rather have commercials or more show . Audience more show stephen okay, but understand that more show means there might be some subtle Product Placement. Audience Product Placement stephen all right all right all right. Lets do that. Give it up for jon batiste right over there. Jon, the great cheers and applause you know who weve got tonight, jon . Tonight, in just a few minutes, the great mr. Jamie foxx is going to be out here in just a little while jon jamie foxx. Stephen you know, i spend a lot of time right over there, drawing together the days biggest news themes, its richest, mostsatiric characters; its darkest comic imagery and carefully plotting them out for you in the elaborate shakespearean comedy that is my monologue. But sometimes i just want you to pull my finger to release my segment meanwhile. Meanwhile, a national treasure. Folks, tonights meanwhile is brought to you by kelloggs frostet flakes. Joining me now, tony the tiger, everybody thank you, thank you, stephen. Its good to be here. Stephen tonighty dont dont you mean its greeat to be here . Well see. Im here because all across the country, some schools are being forced to cut sports. And im not okay with that. So i started Mission Tiger to help save School Sports for as many kids as possible. Stephen well, thats wonderful, tony i bet you played a lot of School Sports yourself, eh, stephen . Stephen thats wonderful, tony laughter so to help find the kids most in need we teamed up with donorschoose. Org stephen im on the board of donors choose youve mentioned that. Stephen okay and weve already funded 600 schools and helped over 165,000 kids. And these kids are greeeatful. Stephen again, not quite where i thought you were going with that, tony. Let me ask you this. Does eating this box of frosted flakes they keep under my desk help in any way . Absolutely when you buy a box, you can support the mission. Stephen you hear that, dr. Eichler . I am inhaling frosted flakes for the children cheers and applause and dont forget frosted flakes is sponsoring want tony the tiger sun bowl this year on december 31, the only bowl game with a mission. Stephen tony, i want you ton that if any part of Mission Tigers mission is to release an actual tiger on to the field, i will totally watch that laughter tony the tiger, everybody cheers and applause it was greeea nice to be here stephen thank you, tony. Meanwhile, the entire internet is thirsty for actor Kumail Nanjiani who, after being cast as a marvel character, transformed his body into this towering chunk of beefsteak. Dayum hes putting the male in kumail. laughter a lot of us celebs post these photos of ourselves looking all buff, which can be very demoralizing to you normals out there. But kumail had the decency to add, i would not have been able to do this if i didnt have a full year with the best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world. It would have been impossible without these resources. That is refreshing honesty. And i, too, right now, want all my fans to know that achieving this look would not have been possible without my two biggest resources irish skin and the march of time. cheers and applause meanwhile, the city of topeka will pay you up to 15,000 just to move there. The program,choose topeka, was created with the intention of investing in employees to live and work in topeka and Shawnee County so that we may foster an intentional community. Thats important, an intentional community. Because right now topekas current residents are all drivers who ran out of gas on their way anywhere else. God love you, topeka. Meanwhile, the first celebrity voice to come to amazons alexa is now available. Owners can now add actor samuel l. Jacksons voice to their devices. Great clears throat lets try it out. Alexa, whats the weather . Say what again say what again i dare you. I double dare you, bleep . Say what one more bleep time cheers and applause stephen so pack an umbrella, i guess. Meanwhile, a lord of the Rings Television Series is currently in production on amazon, which means if youre in new zealand and youve got a face like a leather handbag . Missing teeth . You could be an extra on lord of the rings i was just down there for a week why didnt you ask . Face like a leather handbag . Check. Missing teeth . No, but i do have a willing heart and a pair of pliers. laughter now, the production its production needs so many extras so fast, casting agents in new zealand are asking for hairy, hairy people of all ages and ethnicities, individuals with many freckles, redheads, and people with lots of wrinkles, and asking, have you been out in that sunshine . Is your face a little ugh . laughter okay, dont sugar coat it. Im sure it wont be awkward on set when you actually meet these human beings. Congratulations, everybody your face looks like a cat coughed up a boiled potato. You, you, stand over there your face is just the right amount of ugh. Meanwhile, scientists have discovered the deepest point on land. The deepest point . That Bumper Sticker with all the worlds religions spelling coexist. laughter pretty deep stephen oh, yeah. Thats very deep laughter stephen meanwhile, once in a while, a story comes along that is far too phallic for us to cover, but also far too phallic for us not to cover, which brings us once again to our meanwhile subsegment peenwhile. Peenwhile, the cats movie hits theaters this weekend, and, reportedly, one of its stars, jason derulo, isnt happy. Specifically, derulo is bummed that the film had to digitally remove his massive penis. Because, come one, thats what Everyone Wants from a movie about cats a massive human penis. laughter and it must definitely, for sure, be very big, because when asked by an interviewer, you think that they airbrushed your penis out of the cats movie . Derulo replied, 125 . laughter now, does that sound like someone who exaggerates the size of things . Meanwhile, the town of skagway, alaska, is selling its newspaper for the unbeatable price of zero dollars. Unbeatable . Clearly, youve never heard of topeka, kansas. laughter well be right back with jamie foxx. applause across the country, schools are having to cut sports. Im tony the tiger and im on a mission to fix that. Bring back the tigers. Your mighty, mighty tigers. [cheering sounds] buy a box and help all kids be tigers. Too shabby too much i can rent this . For that price . Absolutely. Its just right book your just right rental at thrifty. Com. Its just right im Christina Stembel and i chose the spark cash card from capital one with unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy why wouldnt i get this card . i redeemed 115,000 in cash back, which doubled our Marketing Budget last summer. Whats in your wallet . Well if inspirations what youre searching for. 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What a special night tonight stephen very special night stephen we have a very special guest for you. Ladies and gentlemen, my first guest is a grammy and Academy Awardwinning artist you know from ray and django unchained. He now stars in the new film just mercy. Please welcome back to the late show, mr. Jamie foxx applause applause applause cheers and applause Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Stephen oh, yeah Merry ChristmasMerry Christmas happy new year Merry Christmas to the reindeer we never think about the reyna deer. We never say merry we never say that stephen we talk about rudolph. We talk about rudolph but we never pay him homage. Merry christmas to the reindeer the reindeer merry, merry, merry, merry Merry Christmas to the reindeer applause im just talking about rudolph okay, all right stephen its a message of hope. Its a message of hope, jamie foxx i think i came in hot stephen happy birthday i understand you celebrated a birthday. I did, i did stephen how many are we talking about . 26 times two. Stephen wow applause cheers stephen careful now. Wow you know, i gotta say, this is actually a spanx, i got to be honest stephen you got to i got the man spanx on. I call it a manx. Stephen you get your aarp membership i never used to look at that commercial stephen you get all kinds of discountses. Im sitting are you at the age of 50 . I got my readers on. Oh, man i dont like that 50, 75, damn it stephen do you have to wear the readers now . But i have designer readers stephen designer readers i have my own Glass Company and we make designer readers so you dont look. Weird stephen i know, the last time you were here you left me you turned into an older man. Lets see whats on the menu glvment you left me two pairs of sun glass the last time you were here and my boys stole them. Nothing for the old man i got to get you hooked up stephen i was hoping. I was hoping. Thats why we wanted you back so i could get the sunglass you know how you have the readers and it looks bag bad . Im still hanging out with young people stephen you dont want to be the Chuck Schumer down here. The slidies. The slidies all the way down i dont want the let me get a look at you. Let me get a look at you stephen how do you feel about aging . Are you enjoying the wisdom cropping on you . I feel great. I hang around young people. It keeps me young. Gary gray threw a party at my house. He was turning 50. And the people there were even older. And i was like, oh, my god. I dont ever do this. They had, like, gray manicured beards. Y paint all this hissing stephen thats good thats good i hugged somebody in the back, and the lady kissed me and i left half my beard on her face. I wanted to tell her. laughter stephen because im a little bit older than you are thats a black mans beard stephen im a little older than you are. I enjoying being out with the elderly. I look working out at the local y because i feel very strong in comparison i try to keep it youthful. But, man, come on, im living so much fun. Comedy keeps you young. I was on the set with norman lear stephen how, hes 95, 96 94, 95, nirks 100. Whatever he is stephen yes but he was texting, you know, just like. I was like this man, 95. How do you do it . Comedy keeps me young jung, jamie. As long as were telling these jokes, we will forever stay young. Stephen as youre saying we have to celebrate the reindeer coming up. What other traditions do you have in your house . Does all the family come . Are you the host for everybody . Yeah, i love christmas. And i love, like, lights, because when i was young we never had the good lights,un . We didnt have any money forue know, how some people have the whole house lit up. We just took a red light bulb and took the white one out and put red light bulb out. It was like consistently saying, danger. You know what im saying . It was consistently an mother, as opposed to stephen we actually have this might be this might be your house. We have some footage here of lights. Walk me through this. Is this your neighborhood . Thats my crib stephen thats your house. Thats not your neighborhood. Thats your house. I didnt realize you lived at caesars palace. Wow yeah, man, thats thats a hell of an electric bill right there. Stephen wow. And you put all those up yourself, i assume one by one, you know i like to get close to the work. No, but i give props out to my guy manny who takes care of my house. The first time i tried to do those lights, my bill was astronomical. Like like close to some crazy 00,000, 400,000 crazy. Somebody got me, though. And manny says, i got you on a better price. So manny hooked up the price stephen wow yeah, but they got me. Manny said, i got you. Dont worry about it. Stephen do you have christmas dinner and all that kind of stuff . Do you do that for your family . Yeah, we do the christmas dinner. My whole family lives with me. My mom my mom came back to live with me. I was adopted, so i got back with my mom about 12 years ago. My dad lives with me, too. But theyve been divorced for, like 30 years stephen they both live with you . Yeah, boy, thats tough laughter yeah, thats tough, baby stephen im going to go out on a limb and guess that you have a large house yeah, yeah. Well it has to be for them. Because he still dates. So you know, he has his dates. But she figures out a way to get on his side of the house when he has a date, walks in, looks, hey, how you doing. Hmmm. Hmmm . So this is want new flavor . And im like, oh, man. And hes at me door knocking, can you tell her to stay on her side of the house . Im having company. Now, parents. Stephen well take a break pup stay hydrated. Well be back with more jamie foxx, everybody. Stick around. Like levis for him and her jewelry. 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Yes for less. band playing cheers and applause the stephen hey, everybody, were back here with our friend jamie foxx. How old were you when you first started to perform . Man. I mean literally, right as soon as i came out i was, like, ready. laughter stephen what did your parents think when you decided, im going to do this professionally . Did your parents support that. There are people who are funny, people who can sing, but to make that your life, thats a risky thing to do i did. When i started the third grade, mrs. Reed see she said, youre going to get into trouble. She said, ydont i give you time at the end of class on friday and you can tell jokes to the kids. I would tell jokes. And i would tell jokes from the Johnny Carson show. You know why . Because the only tv in my house was in my room, and my parents would watch the Johnny Carson show. And i would tell those jokes to the kids and they thought i was amazing i was doing impersonations. And when i finally got to to, like, l. A. , i would do different types of impersonating. I was the only black guy doing ronald reagan. Stephen do you still have a reagan . laughter yes, i do. Well, well, well, as a matter of fact, there you go again. Thats all cheers and applause stephen the gipper. The gipper yeah, yeah. And so so when i got to l. A. , i started burning up everything. I i was killing its clubs and all my impersonation was my goto. Mike tyson heavyweight boxer, mike tyson. One particular night, i went to my mike tyson joke, right, and nobody laughed. You know why . Because mike was in the audience. laughter and this was when mike was knocking people out for just smiling. One dude in the back said, yo, mike is in here and i said, oh, snap. And a girl in the front said, what are you going to do, jamie . You scared . You scared . And the dude yelled out, mike said do the joke bleep . But it better be funny of the so everybody looking at mike, and then they all look at me. And i did my thing. Mike tyson, heavyweight boxing champion whatever it was. I did some type of joke of him going through the drivethrough at the Kentucky Fried Chicken no, i went through the drivethrough and he was the joyce voice. Hello, welcome to Kentucky Fried Chicken. May i take your order . laughter stephen and . So so after it was over, everybody was laughing, a stadged ovation, and i was worried. And mike runs up to me. And he goes, there he is come on, you bleep . And i started hanging out with mike tyson stephen wow which was crazy because he was so rich and so famous at the time. We would be in clubs wed go to a club, and mike would see a girl and say, hey, you how you doing . You like b. M. W. S. And the girl would say, yeah. And hed say, lets go, and go to a b. M. W. Dealership and buy a b. M. W. And the next day knock on the door and get the b. M. W. Back stephen those are good friends. Those are good friends those are really good friends. Bhi finally got on when i finally, like, auditioned for a show, it was called the rock show. And i get on the show and stephen was it a sitcom . It was a sitcom. It was called rock. And i get on the show because at night robbie reed discovered me that night, of mike tyson. I get on the show, and im on the pilot stephen sure for some reason eye know the reason but i cant tell you for some reason i got fired stephen you know why you got fired i know why i got fired stephen thats fortunate know that it will be in the book. I got fired but least i did the pilot. I tell everybody back in texas that, you know, i made it. But they cut me out of the pilot pilot. So when the pilot aired i wasnt in it, and my grandmother and everybody thought, that boy is out there lying, on drugs, or something. But that was that was that. And then, a show by the name of in living color. cheers and applause you can do what you want to do in living color that show had 100 people come audition, down to 50, down to 25, down to 10, to down to five. I was part of that five. I went on stage to do my final audition, and in the audience is is the juggernauts, jim carrey, all of the wins it was 30,000 of those. And i get a standing ovation, and the rest was history. Stephen wow, wow applause well, you have you have a beautiful new movie are you drinking with both hands like donald trump . laughter you okay, man . You all right . It just makes you feel warm when i do that. Stephen yes, yes. You have you have a new movie called just mercy. Yes stephen and it too it follows a man named Bryan Stevenson, who i was lucky enough to interview at the old show in 2013. And he is a man who believes in criminal Justice Reform and getting justice for the innocent. Tell the people what the story of the movie is and who your character is, what the relationship is between the two of you first of all, i get a call from michael b. Jordan, who i have known for years. And what i love about michael b. Jordan is that he keeps this narrative alive, even though hes the biggest star on the planet. He did fruitville station that playthrough for our culture. And did kill monger and black pantherment now here is just mercy about Bryan Stevenson, who say young lawyer who goes down to alabama and finds out there are people on death row who have been unjust. Theyve been framed or just completely lied on. And one particular person is Walter Mcmillian, which is in his book just mercy. I play Walter Mcmillian, who is just, you know, a regular man. Has a tree chopping business, pulping business, driving home one day on a country road the police pull him over and said, you killed someone in a city he had never been in, a person he never heard of. They take and put him in jail. He was in jail for six years without a trial. Its a very powerful, powerful film. And so, it tells the journey of Bryan Stevenson meeting Walter Mcmillian, and walter telling him, you dont understand. Down here, in the south because, you know, he was from the city parts. He says, its going to be tough. What makes you think you can get this done . And he takes on the case, and it is the first case in alabama that was overturned, and its like i said, its an inspirational story. Its a beautiful story. And i hope everyone goes stephen we have a clip right here. And i believe this is where your character is saying to Bryan Stevenson, what makes you think you can do this . Jim you rich boys from harvard, you dont know what it is down here. Youre guilty from the moment youre born. You grow up with these white folks and you try to make them laugh and make them like you, and yes, sir, yes, maam. They have no fingerprint. And none of that matters when all you think is i look like a man. Who could kill somebody. Thats not what i think. cheers and applause stephen extraordinary movie. We have to take one more break. Dont go anywhere. Well be right back with more mr. Jamie foxx, everybody. Stick around. applause may your holidays glow bright and all your dreams take flight. Lease the c 300 sedan for just 399 a month at the mercedesbenz winter event. Hurry in today. Seaonly abreva cany to help sget rid of it in. As little as 2 1 2 days when used at the first sign. Abreva starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. Abreva acts on it. So you can too. Welcome back to our ah, its time to gift wrap. Did someone say gift rap . 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This is the most important movie i have ever done because Walter Mcmillian is a stones throw away from from me or any black man. And what i mean by that is my father actually went to jail for 25 worth of illegal substance for seven years. A man who educated in the hood for 25 years. The very judge that he would have come ment ort kids presided on his case. They didnt understand that that man taught me how to play tennis, taught me how to swim. I said, why am i learning . He said, i want you to know what white people, all people do. They took that man from me. I dont like the perception of a black man going to jail. I never go visit somebody in jail. I wrote my dad a letter, ill fight for you. When you come out, you come live with me so i can protect you. So when he did get out, i since he loved tennis, i told him i made it. Your son did good. And i took him to the u. S. Open and we sat there and watched venus play. And, you know, tears down our faces. But that chunk of life disrupted everything. So when i see what Walter Mcmillian went through, its not the same diej, but it is its so close because of our the perception of us. And so thats why i said this is the most important movie. And whats interesting about it, is i look into the audience its a, you know, people from all over. Whats great about this film what, michael b. Jordan did and our great director can is that its a human story. And what i mean by that is if youre not black, that doesnt mean that you cant enjoy what this is. Because they tested this movie in front of an allblack audience. They tested at a 97. I said, wow. We hoped that that would be. We sort of expected that. But then they tested in front of an allwhite audience in kansas city. It tested at a 98. Thats why i say its so important because of because Bryan Stevenson is still could go this work. He is still out there, you know, working for people brown, black, white, whoever they were who have been disenfranchise or framed and in these horrible situations. So sometimes it takes the art to open our eyes to whats going on. And when this film got to Toronto Film Festival because i kept telling michael b. Hang in there. He was worried about the performance. When he walked out he got a standing ovation. We got an eightminute standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival. It broke the record applause and so and i ill even and well talk about the art being able to be look at what youve done with your parent youre able to speak about things that most politicians cant even get out. So its am i right . cheers and applause so its interesting how art now has become a vehicle to get truth out. So this is the ultimate truth, and i hope that everybody will go see it Christmas Day in select theaters, and in january, its everywhere. But it is a beautiful, powerful movie. And when you see it, youre going to want to do something to change the narratives cheers and applause stephen thank you. Just mercy is in theaters on Christmas Day. Go see it. Jamie foxx, everybody well be right back. You shouldnt have to live with pain. You shouldnt have to pretend youre fine. You shouldnt have to be the ambulance. You shouldnt have to be thinking about the cost. You should just be focused on her. Covered california can help you find a health plan that fits your needs and budget. Because we believe you shouldnt have to choose between the life youve built and the care you need. Blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on swedens greetings. Enjoy your first payment on us when you lease a new volvo. Now through january 2nd. Stephen thats it for the stephen thats it for the late show. Tune in tomorrow when my guests will be charlize theron, martha stewart, and a special appearance by john lithgow. 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