Mark add read. We have a live one here subject line, shiauthorize the murder of Antonin Scalia . Oh, my god. False alarm. Its an email from fresh direct. 10 off. Thats pretty good. F. B. I. email readers units, coming this fall from cbs. I mean, he wouldnt just waste our time, right . Stephen colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes mel gibson. Luke bracey. And musical guests, tegan and 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 thanks, everybody. Hey, whats up, jon . Good to see you. Have a good one. Hey, everybody. Whats up, mark . Whats up, chris . Whats up, paul. Hey welcome to the late show. Thanks so much for being here. Thanks, everybody, pleas h a seat. Youre too kind. Thanks, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Well, ladies and gentlemen, mark ones calendar because election is but one week away. Seven days. Time enough to tell your family you love them and make your peace with god. As the captain of the titanic once said, this is not a drill. laughter of course, were also one week away from my live election show on showtime. Come for the political jokes. Nudity. cheers and applause and and you can sit down. You can sit down. And the polls are tightening. The latest abc News Washington post lets say sunglass hut poll has donald trump moving ahead of clinton by one point as enthusiasm declines. Trump gets close to a woman, enthusiasm tends to decline. cheers and applause now, the poll found the poll found that only 45 of clinton voters have strong enthusiasm for hillary. Now, i get it. Shes like eating your vegetables nobody wants to eat broccoli, but i think we can all agree a head of broccoli would make a better president than donald trump. cheers and applause cheese sauce, Something Like that. And its been a good week for donald trump. His poll numbers are up, hillarys email scandal is relevant again, and he just got his second newspaper endorsement. Is it the journal . Is it the post . No, its the crusader the political voice of White Christian america yes, trump was endorsed by the ku klux klan newspaper. We finally answer the question whats white and white and whit laughter applause and i dont know about you i dont know about you applause but when i first heard this, i was like, what took you so long . Was the klan on the fence . I dont know, maybe jill stein, maybe jefferson davis. Not sure who were going to endorse this time for the first time in their 111year history, variety has endorsed a president ial candidate Hillary Clinton. cheers and applause thats right. Thats right, the magazine named variety said, lets have a second president clinton ill let that one sink in. And the tightening polls dont seem to worry Hillary Clinton. Her campaign is planning an Election Night explosion of wow, she hasnt even won and shes planning her celebration. I hope the big finale is when they spell out the word hubris. I hear i hear very nice. Very pretty. Very pretty. I hear they even planned the menu for the victory celebration. Theyre having chicken. Well, right now, theyre just eggs, but theyre counting their chickens. Democratic contributor Donna Brazile has resigned from cnn after wikileaks revealed she leaked a primary debate question to the Clinton Campaign. According to wikileaks, brazile sent an email to Clinton Campaign chair john podesta with the subject line, one of the questions directed to h. R. C. Tomorrow is from a woman with a rash. Now, no name was included, so i assume they said, just look for says im with herpes. Turns out the question was about lead poisoning in flint, michigan. So, finally, someone lost their job over flint. Now, that may have been an email that hillary didnt want you to see, but theres an entire book donald trump doesnt want you to see, because he apparently wrote those living and working in trump tower, such as an employee having sex on the set of celebrity apprentice. Oh, its the perfect steamy read for anyone whos ever wanted to read about gary busey in a threeway with meatloaf and melissa rivers. The book could be nice. It could be nice. The book was released in 2012 and is called trump tower, which is definitely an improvement on the original title, symbolic penis. Jon wow, man stephen yeah. What was that . What was that . Now, this novel contains a lot of b. D. S. M. , with one critic writing, the red room of pain in fifty shades of grey would fit right into trump tower. No surprise, given the pain in the ass hes been all year. Jon hey, hey, hey stephen remember, our safe word is november 8. These are actual passages from the book. Just check out some of stuff in the book, after the woman fell asleep, mikey came out, looked around and saw there were at least six women not wearing tops. He proclaimed, im dead. Ive gone to boob heaven. Yes, boob heaven. Evidently, donald trump started writing this novel in fourth grade. But for some reason, trump pulled his name from the book right before it was published. And i dont know why. A lot of president s published erotica, like abraham lincolns the tail splitter. F. D. R. s im banging my cousin, eleanor. laughter Thomas Jeffersons life, liberty, and the pursuit of slave boob. And, of course, bill clintons erotica classic, my life. laughter applause weve got a great show for you hes got a big beard. Stick around. . . . applause simulation initiated. . Take on any galaxy with a car that could stop for you. Simulation complete. The new nissan rogue. Rogue one a star wars story. In theaters december 16th. This is pepsi zero sugar. 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Ladies and gentlemen, say hi to jon batiste and stay please. cheers and applause best band on television. Thank you, jon. You know, i sit at this desk every night you know it, you know it and i make a lot of jokes haha. Ut youd be amazed how much is going on in here. Mostly, the song raspberry beret on repeat. That sucker is hard to shake. But i also think big thoughts about deep stuff, like the take some time and contemplate these mysteries of existence with my fellow celebrities in a segment i call raspberry beret. Nope thats not it. Sorry, i told you, its a brain worm. Its a segment i like to call Big Questions with even bigger stars. applause . . . Ah, what a glorious night. Yeah, sure sstephen. Stephen hel, you like to am up here and think, too . Yup. Yup, ill lay up here for hours just listening to the wind rustling through my beard. laughter hey, stephen. Stephen yeah, mel . How many stars are there in i dont know. Yeah. Stephen hey, mel . Yeah . Stephen is mel short for melvin . No, no, its not. Its long for mmmm. laughter stephen pret name. Oh, shooting star look at that. Stephen stephen. Stephen if you could say anything to your greatgreatgrandmother, what would it be . Stephen shouldnt you be dead by now . Hey, melmels . Yeah. Stephen when you look back on your life, do you think youll have any regrets . No. laughter not one. Stephen really . Not one . No, not one. They tend to come in clusters. Hey, stephen . Stephen yeah, mel . Whats the scariest movie youve ever seen . Stephen oh, that one where that psychopath traps two people in his house and tortures them. Yeah, home alone is pretty scary. laughter stephen hey, mel, do you think its better to love or to be loved . Well, i guess it depends on how tired you are. laughter he were he were stephen, if you could only bring one, just one book to a desert island, which one would it be . Stephen one book . One. Stephen probably how to build a boat out of sand. Mel, i can ask you a personal question . Sure. Stephen if you could go tell your younger self . Dont be so caught up in the little things. Take advantage of all the gifts the world has to offer, and live every day to the fullest. And id also tell myself, my younger self, to shut the bleep up. Stephen. Stephen yeah, mel, whats up . If you could go back in time and meet one famous person, who would it be . Stephen it would probably be young mel gibson. You know, 35 years ago, before i got this road kill on my face, did you know i was the sexiest man alive . Stephen yeah, thats what i heard. Id want to go back and see if the legends were true, yeah, yeah. Think mcconaugheys sexy by the way . Hes a seven out of 10. laughter . Stephen who would you go back in time to meet, mel . Youd probably want to know if he liked the passion of the christ. No, id want to know which Lethal Weapon movie was his favorite. Stephen probably two, joe pesci. Im saying three. Stephen really, no, pesci is the really the breakout star of that movie, i think. Hey, mel, do you think free will exists . Yes, thats what it says on the teleprompter. Stephen we have to go to commercial. Well be right back with mel gibson and his beard. cheers and applause this man can lift a 526 pound barrel of tennessee whiskey. These people can do everything else. . This is lynchburg, tennessee. Whats it gonna be . An ovenbaked digiorno . Or waiting for delivery . Did you have that beard when we ordered . A hot, freshbaked crust . Or . Did we order extra soggy . Dont settle for delivery. Rise to the occasion. Its not delivery. Its digiorno. Before danny got what he was dreaming about for the holidays. Before his mom earned 1 cash back everywhere, every time. [ dinosaur growls ] and his dad earned 2 back at Grocery Stores and wholesale clubs. Yeah even before they earned 3 back on gas. Dannys parents used their bankamericard cash rewards credit card to give him the best day ever. Thats the joy of rewarding connections. Joanne shes not fooling me. Britt kelly ayotte sides with the special interests. Vivian now, shes even playing politic games with medicare. Vo kelly ayotte voted to cut medicare and cost seniors up to 1,700 more for prescriptions. Big Oil Companies that fund her campaign. Fred kelly ayotte sold us out. Britt with kelly ayotte, its all politics. Joanne shes not looking out for New Hampshire anymore. Vo Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Everybody. Thats the hardest working band in show business, working extra hard tonight. Thanks, jon. Always got my back. All right. Welcome back, everybody. My first guest tonight is an Academy Awardwinning director and one of the most famous movie stars in the world. Hes returned to directing after ten years with the new film hacksaw ridge. Ladies and gentleman, please welcome mel gibson cheers and applause . . . Stephen good to see you. Yeah. Stephen ed any to see you. Yeah. Stephen mel gibson. Absolutely. Stephen on my show. In the flesh. Stephen yeah, im a big, longtime fan of yours. Why, thank you. Stephen but, obviously, before we start any interview, i have to deal with the elephant in the room. You know, theres one thing you think about, and thats your beard. laughter what is the deal . Why do you have that beard . And are we anything to braid it later and put a bead on the end . Why do you have a beard right now . I like people playing with my well, it was halloween. It was a full moon. I was in the attic and chewed through my constraints and i only had time to shave my back. Its for a film part, im doing the pss stephen based on the book. Yeah. Stephen with sean penn. Yes. Stephen who is the mad man . Am i am a little jealous of your beard because this is the best i can could do. This is the best i could do. Thats excellent. Thats a nice color. Stephen thanks very much, yeah, thanks very much. Its wisdom. Stephen im gray from the neck down. Really . Gli never met you before. We met backstage for the first laughter you you you had some rough patches over the last 10 years. Yeah. Rough patch. Stephen uhhuh. And how was that . Eh, not my proudest moment. Not my proudest moment, stephen. But 10 years having by. I worked on myself, and im happier and healthier than a long time and im fortunate. Stephen how are you fortunate . I get to do what i love to do. I get to do that. Im grateful. I get to t and one one of the tenet of the faith i was taught is suffering is a good thing. Honest to god. Do you think theres any value to the suffer ago because you went through some suffering over the last 10 years, i imagine, sort of being a pariah in some circles for what you did. Is there any value . Did you learn anything from that . And did you become a better man in any way . Gravel rash suffering. Well, lestime on the meat rack after its all done, right . Stephen i dont know what that must be that must be australian catholicism. What is less time in the meat rack mean . Meat rack, in another realm. Stephen like purgatory. Yeah, thats it. Stephen temporary suffering before we have the presence of god. Temp poral punishment before the main course. Stephen was there a moment when you said,im going to get through this . Yeah. Stephen what was that moment when you said, okay, this is going to be okay. Im going to people are going to accept the agy going to move forward. Just when i apologized, i think. And, you know, of course, you take a hiding, and thats okay. you say you took to hiding. No you take a hiding. Stephen oh, you tack a hiding. A beating. You take the shots. You try not to yell too much. You be manful about it. You dont react too much. But its interesting. Its a moment in time. Its a bit pitty that one has to having a nervous breakdown in the back of a police car after double tekeel as. Thats what it is. This is not that moment shouldnt define the rest of my life. Stephen no, i dont believe any person no person applause yeah. Stephen no person is their worst moment. No. Stephen yeah or else im in huge trouble. Well, absolutely. And, you know, the other thing, too, is theres no action ive ever you know, that ever supports that l t stephen do you ever look at donald trump and say, how come i had to apologize and he might be president . laughter applause cheers well, now, now, you know, im reading articles all over the place. Hollywood is reembracing mel gibson and your new film ovation it was nine minutes and 45 second s. Stephen did you stopwatch it . Absolutely. Stephen it has gotten 100 on Rotten Tomatoes right now. People are loving this film. Its a deeply moving, film about desmond dawz, a Conscientious Objector who just wont pick up a gun but is willing to serve his country. What was it about this story that appealed to you . Well, its so inspiring, and its about time someone t a reallife superhero, one that doesnt wear spandex. Stephen you did that once before with jesus. Thats true. Stephen no spandex on jesus. I think i did it on stage. Stephen Jesus Christ Superstar . That was it. Stephen i dont know if theres any spanned oakes that. There are a lot of high notes. Hes a real superstar. Hes a real guy who really did, you know, amazing things. Extremely difficult circumstances. And thats in the hell of war, in combat. And i dont see it as a war film although of although its kind of graphic because i want to show its very graphic. I want to show what our veterans go through from back in the day to right today. They go through a lot for us and they take a beating and i want the audience to empathize with that and put the audience in the fox hole. But its a other men are reduced animals he is crawling out of their without a weapon and saving his buddy s. Stephen he saved 75 men in okinawa. And with bullet flying around his ear and he put his line on e on the line for everybody else and thats the definition of ultimate love. If he was around today, i would want him to be president. Stephen im sorry, what was that . If he was around today, i would want him to be president. Stephen neither of the have any military service. Thats interesting. It used to be something we expected of someone running for the highest office in the land because theatre commander in chief at the end of it. Yeah, i guess so. Stephen you say its a love story, and you say its not to glorify war. Do you think theres any worry, no matter how you tell the story of war, that just it being a movie galorifies it in some way . Because what the camera points at makes it beautiful in some ways. A lot of thought goes into how to how to make it look good on glorify it because it becomes entertainment. Sure, i guess you want it to be cinematically compelling but at the same time if you just tapose who that man is and his faith, i think having it be like that sort of highlights the Higher Nature of the film. So its, you know, for me it needed to be that way