John Oliver turns his triumphant into Last week tonight next Sunday on HBO. But first, he joined Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night Late show to weigh everything he was missing from the end of last fall’s post-election season.
“Here we are, again, again,” Colbert said at the top of the show, explaining that the first day of Trump’s second impeachment hearing – or, as he called it, “already coup”–it turned out to be “much less boring” than he thought it would be. The host was especially moved by the “devastating” video of the prosecution managers at home presented at the top of their opening arguments.
After joking about the fact that Tom Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl champion at the age of 43, weighed in on the day’s work, calling it “the perfect echo of Trump’s presidency – something that is supposed to be nothing is done much. ”
“I understand that the first lawyer hired in a kind of freestyle beat poetry for a while and then the second threatened the civil war, right?” Oliver added.
“I thought he was just trying to run out of time,” Colbert said, comparing him to Trump’s lawyer, Bruce Castor, to a backup comedian who has to work for an hour.
Colbert also spent a few minutes of his monologue frying Trump’s “completely unprepared” defense team at Castor, which he opened by accidentally referring to himself as the “chief prosecutor,” to David Schoen, who he played “bad cop” in Castor’s bad lawyer. “And he presented a montage of Democrats claiming that Trump should have been indicted starting with his first year in office.
“Uh, Dave? It’s not the knockout punch you think it is, “the host replied. “‘Honor, my client did not burn that school. I have three years of 911 appeals in court saying it is incendiary. ‘”
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