announcer: it s a late show with stephen colbert. tonight: 2020: the most year ever. plus, stephen welcomes: george clooney. featuring jon batiste and stay homin . and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it s stephen colbert! stephen: welcome! welcome, one and all, to a late show. i m your host, stephen colbert, one more time. well, folks, it s our last show of 2020, and hopefully it s our last 2020, if you know what i mean and i m not sure i do. tonight, we re going to revisit the year that was and, boy, was it in a special report we re calling: 2020: the year that took years. what a cluster-fond look back. stephen: 2020 brought us so much: the clumsiest coup in history, the global pandemic, commercials from domino s saying their pizzas would now go right from the oven into the box without anyone touching it, which really raised a lot of questions about how that all worked before. 2020 was so bad, the top artist o
announcer: it s a late show with stephen colbert. tonight: 2020: the most year ever. plus, stephen welcomes george clooney featuring jon batiste and stay homin . and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater office building in new york city, it s stephen colbert! stephen: welcome. welcome, one and all to a late show. i m your host, stephen colbert. one more time. well, folks, it s our last show of 2020, and hopefully it s our last 2020, if you know what i mean and i m not sure i do. tonight, we re going to revisit the year that was and, boy, was it in a special report 2020: the year that took years. what a cluster-fond look back. stephen: 2020 brought us so much: the clumsiest coup in history, the global pandemic, commercials from dominoe s saying their pizzas would now go right from the oven into the box without anyone touching it, which really raised a lot of questions about how that all worked before. 2020 was so bad, the top artist on spotify was a m
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