(The LateShow with Stephen Colbert, Screenshot via YouTube)
The Late Show’s Stephen Colbert refused to pass up the opportunity to broadcast his talk show live at the Republican National Convention, which began yesterday.
“I want to be the first one to announce the moment America becomes great again,” Colbert said on the show.
“On the live show, his writers reacted to things that had happened that day and even that night,” the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Johnson observed.
Speaking on the convention itself, Colbert related the debates and speakers to the best-selling Suzanne Collin’s novels “The Hunger Games.”
“These conventions can be fun to watch but for the people involved, it is a blood sport that we just watch,” Colbert said. “It is bear knuckle brawling, it’s like The Hunger Games…no it’s worse than that, it’s The Hungry for Power Games.”
Colbert reenacted his own version, “The Hungry for Power Games,” before retreating to one of the audience’s favorite segment’s, “The Word,” coining the word “Trumpiness,” a spin-off of a word he had previously created, “truthiness.”
A play on words, “Trumpiness” touched on Trump’s unique, but successful way of communicating throughout his campaign.
“Truthiness has to feel true, but Trumpiness doesn’t even have to do that,” Colbert said. “Truthiness was from the gut, but Trumpiness comes from much further down in the gastrointestinal tract.”
Monday night’s segment entertained individuals whose disinterest in the Republic National Convention drove them to the comedic reenactments by Colbert himself.
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