i am your host stephen colbert. it is so -- ( cheers and applause ) look at that, how could you leave that? i am so glad -- ladies and gentlemen, i am so glad to be here tonight, though i am not actually here tonight and it's not actually tonight because we're taping tonight's show in advance because when this airs, i will be traveling back from the emmys. so right now i am somewhere else enjoying a glass of celebratory champagne or a bucket of consolation bourbon. ( cheers and applause ) there you go. but i wish i could be here, meaning here, there, from when i'm -- monday -- let's move on. ( laughter ) because tonight, i'm going to share some of my favorite moments from the last season as well as some clips that have never before aired. and i shot most of the last season all alone in an old storage closet upstairs, so i'm very excited to share these with an actual live audience for the first time. you see, i have a theory about comedy, and it's that it's good when there's laughter. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applau

>> stephen: first question on the colbert questionert!.l right. >> stephen: jon stewart, what&-? >> oh, jeez -- >> stephen: we're not playing here. >> you can't answer it in terms of a particular sandwich. the best sandwich is one that understands the bread-to-ingredient ratio and does not -- so i can't say to you -- >> stephen: you can't do a hoagie? >> can't do a hoagie? are you an american? of course you can do a hoagie. >> stephen: that's a big bun, man. >> it's not a big -- stephen, have you had a sandwich? what kind of -- >> stephen: i've had a few. okay. whether it be a po boy, a hoagie, kaiser, muffuletta, it doesn't matter. what matters is the ratio of ingredient to bread and the addition of your liquidity, whether it be a condiment or -- >> stephen: a pickle, i'd say. a pickle is -- i mean, that's a bold addition. what's nice about the pickle is you're getting a flavor addition, but also a textural jolt, if you will. >> stephen: sure. that breaks in. so what happens is your mouth comes through the bread generally fresh, somewhat

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: bob woodward and robert costa and musical guest, leon bridges featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey! diwalk too fast this time? hey, joe! cheaper good to see you. good to see you. please, have a seat, everybody. thanks. welcome, one and all to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) i'm sorry, i'm sorry. i said that wrong. let me start over. welcome to the emmy award-winning "late show!" i am your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ). thank you very much. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> audience: stephen! >> stephen: very nice, thank you, thank you. ( cheers and applause ) because on sunday night, the talented staff and crew of this show won an emmy for our live election special: "stephen colbert's election night 2020: democracy's last stand: building back america great

>> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: jessica chastain and stephen sondheim featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! hey, my old friend. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: man. ladies and gentlemen, "welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. folks-- ( cheers and applause ) i'm glad you're feeling good. it's important, you know, to stay hopeful. no matter what, as bad as the last five years have been, and as anxious as we're always all feeling, it's reassure to know and i believe important to remember-- that at any moment, it could get much, much worse. take california, where last night, governor gavin newsom survived a recall with almost 64% of the vote. ( cheers and applause ) sorry, california republicans, i know you spent 20 months and millions of dollars on this recall,

whatever biden says or stephen colbert says, do the opposite.ave a lot of people for this paperback version here with all of the new information, you spoke to a lot of people, i assume, since the insurrection. >> yeah, i followed up with people. >> stephen: do the people there actually think it was stolen or are they just selling the product they think their client wants? >> they are selling the product. by the way, some of my sources have left because they can't take it anymore. so the people who stay are more likely to be true believers, but they are just selling the product. i think fox has lost control of the monster that they created. they are scared of their viewers. i'm not scared of my viewers. are you? >> stephen: i'm terrified of them. ( cheers and applause ) terrified. ( piano riff ) what do you mean? i want to know what you mean. >> i think when -- ( laughter ) i'm not scared of my viewers, stephen, but then again, i don't have a studio audience. >> stephen: yes. i think they are scared to turn off their viewers. they know there's mo

it did not take long for colbert to poke fun at burleson's outfit.ome of the daredevil stunts he's done like bungee jumping and bobsledding. what's the craziest thing you've done with a camera pointed at him. >> i've done the parasailing and i've jumped off of tall water falls. i do want to jump out of a plane. >> with a parachute? >> with a parachute. of course. >> you can catch nate burleson on cbs mornings weekdays at 7 a.m. eastern time. >>> and coming up on cbs mornings, actor andrew garfield talks about playing tell evangelist in the movie "in the eyes of tammy faye." i'm anne-marie green. this is cbs morning news. tammy" i'm anne-marie green. this is cbs morning news. did t. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so glad we did this. i'm so... ...glad we did this. [kid plays drums] life is for living. let's partner for all of it. i'm so glad we did this. edward jones think wearing less makeup means no need for a wipe? think again. neutrogena® makeup remover wipes remove the 30% of makeup ordinary cleansers can leave behind. your

i am your host, stephen colbert.harp-eyed viewers, and certainly one person in the audience may have noticed that i shaved off my mustache. last night-- people are ask yg. where did the mustache go? there are reasons for everything we do here at "the late show." it's all based on science. last night, we did an ultra-scientific twitter poll and 71% said trash the 'stache. okay. ( cheers and applause ). rrt. all right. that's just one data point. you can't go off of one data point. so later, a cbs/stephen colbert's wife poll, found that 100% of evie did not like the 'stache. she would not kiss me while i had it, so i shaved it off, and i got my kiss. the story has a happy ending. ( cheers and applause ). and they lived happily ever after. of course, these days, you've got to be careful who you kiss, thanks to the delta variant which currently accounts for 99% of covid cases in the united states. and it's so well known that the c.e.o. of the airline delta revealed he's still refusing to call it the delta variant. that's

colbert, writers. ( cheers and applause ) >> yes! thank you. wow.se people before. thank you to the academy, and thank you to the showtime for giving us an hour on election night to do our show because cbs had to report the news or something like that. i accept this emmy on behalf of everybody who worked on the late show, with pride and i am so proud to be one of them. and i'm so glad that we got honored for a live show. because there are many nights when we do this show when we say this is like a live show, especially over the last four years when something would happen at 4:00 or 5:00 or 5:15, and we had to go on at 5:30 and write a whole new show in 20 minutes. and these people behind me are absolutely, most of the people behind me, most of the people behind me really deserve this emmy right now. i want to thank cbs, cbs for giving us the show every night. i want to thank ted lasso and for not being in this category. and the most amazing thing is that these people did this show not just in their own little zoom rooms like everybody in this indust

i am your host, stephen colbert. applause ) if you've been watching the show, you know all week i've been talking about what's going on in afghanistan. it's a comedy gold mine-- in that trying to do jokes about it makes you feel like you're trapped deep underground without enough oxygen. but today, all the news from there is "wait and see." so i, too, am going to wait, and see what else there is to talk about-- you know, lighter news, like the delta variant. ( laughter ) speaking of which, we're getting reinforcements to fight it. today, the biden administration announced booster shots will be offered to americans beginning september 20. of course-- ( cheers and applause ) the vax man's here. of course, not all americans are in favor of even one vaccine. in san diego, a bunch of these folks, came out to protest vaccine mandates at a board of supervisors meeting-- and buckle your brain: >> we should not be spending our time here and our life force energy fighting people who lack critical thinking and common sense, yet

i am your host stephen colbert. ladies and gentlemen -- ( cheers and applause ) -- tonight in washington, d.c., the city is on high alert. the national guard has been called out, barricades have been reinstalled in front of the capitol, liberty is girding her loins, and they popped a condom on the washington monument. everyone's worried because up to 700 people are expected to attend saturday's justice for j-6 rally in support of those who rioted at the us capitol on january 6th. yeah. yeah. yeah. ( booing ) you were a little late with that. you were a little late. ( laughter ) folks, do we really need to go through this again? >> audience: no! >> stephen: it reminds me of the famous quote "those who fail to learn from history will be at this rally." ( cheers and applause ) but i'm all for justice for the people who attacked the capitol on january 6th. have they locked up the main guy who started the whole thing yet? his name's on the tip of my tongue... ...and it tastes terrible. ( cheers and applause ) at first, i

pick one. >> candace: it's cold air. -- it's colbert. he makes me very nervous.l comfortable when he's doing that. there's something, he could wind up as a dateline episode. colbert, i say that, don't do anything me, i've never bad -- never have anything bad to say. so cringeworthy. you should never have to try that hard to be funny. he tries so hard and he misses the mark every time. >> greg: i don't try hard. that's why i missed the mark but the thing is, what you're talking about, what's weird is a background in musical theater. think about everybody you know that was somehow involved in musical theater. where are they now, kat? they are probably living in your apartment. >> kat: i had to be the narrator because i can't sing. >> greg: i would love to hear you saying. your dream is to be a dateline episode. forensic files. >> kat: i don't want to be murdered. i aim a little higher than that, greg. the flag thing. i'm confused honestly. i read this article, one of the flakes that had something to represent racism. i was confused because flanks as i understand th

and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey! ( cheers and applause ). ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: oh! got to gather up the energy. good to see you. hello, louis. welcome, welcome, benghazi, everybody, in here out there, to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) hey, remember how anxious you were in the final days of the previous presidency? well, turns out, now that we're through it, i think we can say, in hindsight, that maybe we should have been a little more terrified, because we're getting new details about the last days of the last administration of "the lardfather," in the new tell-all from bob woodward and robert costa, "peril." turns out, two days after the january 6th insurrection, joint chiefs chairman, mark milley feared the former president would launch a nuclear war. that's a bombshell revelation a bombshell about a bombshell that would bring about the revelation. but going nuclear makes sense for the former president. after all, he is a fat man

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: are plus, stephen welcomes: steve martin martin short and selena gomez and musical guest the war on drugs featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hello! ( cheers and applause ) hello, friends! good to see you. ( cheers and applause ) thank you, folks. thanks for being here. welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and i-- ( cheers and applause ) thank you. lovely to be back. lovely to be back. i'd like to start off by wishing all my jewish viewers a happy rosh hashanah. here's hoping 5782 turns out better than 5781. now, we've been off for two weeks. and while we were gone there was the continuing plague, war, floods, fires. it's like the end times, or as they're now known, "the times." ( laughter ) so i know everyone watching tonight and they have only one question on their mind: "what the hell is going on with my upper lip?" ( chee

i am your host stephen colbert.adies and gentlemen -- ( cheers and applause ) -- we are 18 months into this coronavirus party, and i think i speak for a lot of us when i say, "barkeep, how about another round of shots?" and we're getting them, because yesterday the f.d.a. authorized pfizer booster shots for americans 65 and older. that's great news. and to make sure only seniors get the shot, the vaccination site is a denny's between the hours of 3:00 and 4:15. ( cheers and applause ) the password is "i miss pay phones." ( laughter ) along with seniors, the agency okayed boosters for those in workplaces with high exposure risk, and "those with high-risk conditions." you know, like diabetes, or living in florida. ( laughter ) ( applause ) it's not just florida. more on that later -- or earlier, one of the two. it's not just seniors lining up for shots. this week pfizer announced that its covid-19 vaccine works in kids ages 5-11. finally, our children will be safe from covid. so they can go back to spreading every oth

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: anita hill and alessandro nivola featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! ♪ ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! please have a seat, everybody. thank you, kindly. welcome, one and all, welcome one, and all-- thank you so much, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and i just want to say-- ( cheers and applause ) thank you. i hope everyone in america is using protection, because it is very possible that we are all screwed. we may be approximately 24 hours from the united states government shutting down. and that's not even the bad news. if it survives the next 24 hours, the u.s. government is also rapidly approaching the debt ceiling, and if congress doesn't find some way to raise it in the next several days, it could cause the united states to default on its debts for the first time i

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: drew carey and phoebe robinson featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: you've knot to rehearse. hey! hello. hello. hello. hello. hey, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and i just-- ( applause ) i just want to say: don't panic. everything is going to be fine. the government is not collapsing... until thursday. ( laughter ) because last night, senate republicans sank democrats' plans to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. and i understand that the debt ceiling is not the sexiest topic-- that, as ever, is matthew mcconaughey. ( laughter ) but if this doesn't get resolved by thursday night, the federal government will officially close as of 12:01 a.m. on friday. ( booing ) do you know what that means? do you have any idea what that means? no security guar

. ♪ ♪ >>> stephen colbert -- >> "the late show with stephen colbert" unveiled new opening credits forts seventh season last night. it was largely shot by drone cameras that zoomed throughout the ed sullivan theater capturing behind-the-scenes activity at the show. the show's senior producer said it was created to capture how special the theater is. >>> on the cbs "money watch," amazon's jeff bezos is pursuing a new project, and is a new iphone about to hit the stores? diane king hall has those stories and more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. stock futures are pointing to a flat open after a mixed day on wall street. investors are weighing disappointing labor market data from last week andurge t covid-19 cases. the dow skidded 269 points. the nasdaq gained 10, and the s&p 500 fell 15. >>> howard university is canceling some classes today for the second day in a row after it was hit with a ransomware attack. the historically black college shut down its network friday after its information technology team detected unusual activity. all online and hybrid undergraduat

>> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, stephen welcomes sara feuring n batiste and "stays. human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! hey! how are you? good to see you! good to see you. good to see you all. hello, friends. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: hey! ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: thank you very much! hey, everybody! hey, everybody out there! thank you very much. what a lovely evening. a beautiful thursday. welcome. welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) the biggest story today is that the coronavirus refuses to stop being the biggest story every day. thanks to delta, pandemic numbers are as bad as they were back in march, and the associated press isn't taking it well. check out this headline. "covid-19 surge in the u.s.: the summer of hope ends in gloom." you all right, a.p.? that headline could us

but as you get more we need as far as soft the film that was done while he's in a filaments, colbert lawyer lives at the cost of the others where the the, the needed me. ready ready why, why do you feel about a majority there was i want, i don't know where the bizarre shun, although they suspect actual the ball that called wyatt bit. i mean, you don't get the pathways your, the, but it will start as done all the, all the hall that of our typically it's not something that has all the gamma it is. my majority bodies will be one with the money, but you got to figure out what to start boot that about. is that what your case costs? social costs social ah much wanted in the ga, ga, missouri, got to know do them over in may start nationally. even all at the moment if you want to say let me know. but as. ready you said that if you go to another student, you must on more as i'm doing your mom, but i actually got with him. yes, she was, it was good. she also taught one of the dupon. we want to hold cut, automate. i miss and i knew that call me back and we can more that mollified. welcome jim.

i'm your host stephen colbert. exciting day here in new york city -- ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) -- because it was the first day of all in-person school! ( cheers and applause ) for the first time in 18 months, kids can enjoy class without seeing their friends' dads wandering behind them in boxers. if they're lucky. of course, there are always some hiccups on the first day. the online health screenings that families are required to fill out each morning had crashed by about 8:00 a.m., so some educators were forced to complete their own screenings of how each child was feeling that morning. "so, i've read your health forms, and i see many of you are suffering from butt fever butt-ache, and shortness of butt. okay, put a mask over your butt and come on in." of course, kids aren't the only ones vulnerable to covid. which is why last week president biden issued a plan to require all private-sector businesses with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccines or weekly testing. that's great. okay? ( cheers and

i am your host, stephen colbert!e got to say-- ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: there he is. >> stephen: this crowd is electric and live on this planet tonight! ( cheers and applause ) they want to hear me talk about the big story everyone's talking about now. continues to be the chaos surrounding the recent poorly- handled regime change... over at "jeopardy!" ( laughter ) now, before you say "stephen, the 'late show' is the most prestigious of all the late night chuckle-fests. what are you doing talking about the game show 'jeopardy!' and who might host it?" well, i have one thing to say to you: i don't know. ( laughter ) all i know is, the mission statement of this show is to talk about what everyone is talking about. and for some reason, everyone is talking about this. possibly to avoid talking about everything else. and now that i've established-- ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) that's it. nailed it. that's it. bing, bang, write that down. now that i've established beyond a doubt that this it

so colbert and kimmel and phelan can't take an whooping? so they are not doing jokes anymore?t the king of late night comedy because gutfeld is? don't feel bad. it is not just gutfeld. he's got two big guns. tyrus and kat timpf behind him. just take an l. but you can play the game, so you have to change the rules. how very woke of view. so now you're going to be about climate control. because that's what i want to talk about. right before i go to bed at night. not feel good laughs and jokes. climate control. i would sooner eat a bowl of water with a fork to listen to jimmy kimmel talk about soggy polar bears and building solar panels late at night. it's cool, though. i guess we will just keep winning and you guys do the climate thing. i'm not angry. ♪ ♪ >> greg: meanwhile, cbs had to cancel their new show called the activists. it's where activists actually compete to promote various causes, one of them being climate. so what does that sound like? yeah, late-night talk show host. after all, aren't they also competing in desperate virtue signaling so the workaholics don't come a

. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert."ht: plus, stephen welcomes: shawn mendes and comedian chris turner featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! beautiful! nice to see you! look at that! ( cheers and applause ). ♪ ♪ ♪ hello! i like the red. i can get into it. hello, nice to see you. ( cheers and applause ) hello! ladies and gentlemen, welcome, one and all to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. it is climate week-- it is climate week here in new york. it's all part of the u.n. general assembly, or "unga." hundreds of world leaders are meeting with climate activists to attempt the one thing to fight climate change that no industrialized nation has done before: anything. and this week, eight late shows, including this one, are doing climate-themed nights. crisis solved. you're welcome. ( cheers and applause ). >> jon: it's condition, it's done! >> stephen: crisis solved, just as surel

when australia lead calls for an inquiry into the origins of colbert 19, and beijing has seen over the past months that australia will not back down. and the threats of economic retaliation and pressure simply will not work. i also want to reiterate what i said before. the united states will not leave australia alone on the field or better yet on the pitch. in the face of these pressure, texas, we've raised publicly and privately, our serious concerns of our business use of economic course against australia. we made it clear that actions like these targeting, our allies, will hinder improvements in our own relationship with the chinese government. we welcome australia leadership in standing up for universal values that we seek to uphold and helping to shape and into a pacific region where nations conduct themselves in ways that enhance stability, reinforce international law. including freedom of the seas allowed front impeded commerce and respect. the sovereignty of all countries these past 7 years have proven that this is an unshakable alliance. we're deeply grateful for our friendshi

. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." stephen welcomes dr. jon lapook and comedian fumi abe featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now liiive on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city it's stephen colbert! (cheers and applause). >> stephen: hey. hey. (applause) good to see you. good to see you. (applause) please have a seat, everybody, thank you very much. very kind. >> stephen: welcome, one and all to "the late show," i'm stephen colbert. (applause) you know, folks every night i come out here and do a monologue. this is one of those nights. let's rip the bandaid off. the taliban have taken over afghanistan. the u.s. has been there for 20 years, we spent 2 trillion dollars, we trained a 300,000 man strong afghan army, and the taliban took it over in 10 days. the country is in complete chaos. yesterday, the streets of kabul were jammed with cars trying to get out of the city, people flooded the airports trying to get a plane out of the country, and here's a military helicopter evacuating from kabul, which has been compared to th

what we know -- colbert was interesting there.t least he's admitting hypocrisy and cowardice, just like covid, all of the people who are telling us to be scared and make changes, they're not that scared. they're not making any changes at all to their own lives. they're still doing shows, they're blaring the lights. they're having celebrities come out on jets and sitton couch and have conversations with them. burning all of the jet fuel. they refuse to make changes whatsoever. here's the thing -- i'm not making any changes because of climate change because i don't believe what they're telling me. i don't believe it. if i'm wrong, i'm just wrong. but if you really believe that the world is going to end if we don't make a change and you refuse to make a change yourself, then you're like a mass murderer. you're a sociopath on top of being a hypocrite. >> tucker carlson: it's a little weird, don't you think, for a you will of the networks to come together to broadcast the message of the political party in charge. it's a little training

then she contacted colbert herself. alex picks up the story with dr. mcdermott thought to me and diamond. thank you once again for joining me on the alex simon show. it's my pleasure. thank you. well, let's go back to the start of the fun damage value are very much demand by, by the media because of your expertise, an infectious diseases. and then suddenly, from being somebody explaining the pandemic to the public, you became a software yourself. what exactly happened last time it starts with the panoramic or at least around march time i returned to clinical work and while working at one of the 2 in london, i contract with 19 i was only on wow, probably for but it was probably about 4 weeks to fully get back to normal, but i was back at work after about 10 days. and then i was working and then again was working on the board. in about may time i became unwell with an almost identical illness again to keep it, which seemed a very quick time to, to become on while again. but i became a while and had a very similar illness

. >> reporter: james colbert says that was his life 13 years ago before he started using a cpap machineng for the last two years the phillips dream station. >> i actually woke up refreshed and could go throughout the course of my day with, you know, ton of energy that i needed for work or, you know, time with my family. >> reporter: for people like colbert who have sleep apnea, breathing repeatedly stops and starts throughout the night. a continuous positive airway pressure or cpap machine pushes a steady stream of air into a user's nose and mouth keeping airways open. but in june, manufacturer phillips voluntarily recalled thousands of machines saying sound dampening foam may degrade and put out chemicals. breathing those in could result in serious injury which can be life threatening or cause permanent impairment ranging from ination to asthma, even toxic or carcinogenic effects. >> it's caused a lot of anxiety -- >> reporter: dr. david claman directs the center at ucsf and says many of his patients have recalled machines. what are you telling your patients to do? >> i'm advising the

stephen colbert explained people even got a response for climate change. >> are you saying income aredividual actions are useless because these corporations are the real problem? >> no. >> good. >> but is also religion. the concept of an afterlife gives you people the false hope of an escape hatch. oh, religioust. people. right. they are the ones who murdered tens of millions of people in the 20th century. it wasn't the atheists. [laughter] kovarik, he doesn't follow the claimant rules because they aret for you. >> and i>> mean this sincerely m a huge hypocrite and i will never do anything that is inconvenience to me. that is why there has to be systemic change, backed up by government action to make everyone make the right choices, not the easy ones. >> tucker: wait a second, if someone forces you to do something, it's not really a choice, is it? you can't make someone make the right choices. that doesn't even make sense. if you make someone do something, it is a command. that person is your. you on that person. no choice involved. not to be -- matt walsh of the "matt walsh show." di

i'm your host, stephen colbert. how's everybody feeling tonight?ers and applause ) that-- that is because you're vaccinated. now, among-- looks appealing, doesn't it? among the unvaccinated in the united states, covid cases are once again on the rise, due to the highly infectious delta variant. inoculations have slowed dramatically, and less than half of the total u.s. population is fully vaccinated. so if you think of it like a pie, about half of the pie would be vaccinated, while the other half... wouldn't be able to taste the pie because they have covid! ( laughter ) now, the rising cases are being fueled by vaccine hesitancy-- which itself is being fueled by a dangerous pathogen scientists are calling the republican party. now-- ( cheers and applause ) and if there are any high school english teachers watching, please-- try to stay neutral. try to stay neutral. ( laughter ) now, the forecast is so dire, some prominent republicans are speaking up, like senate minority leader and condom stuffed with baby food, mitch mcconnell. yesterday-- mcconne

but i told colbert in that searing interview that if i have them on, i'm certainly going to ask themand grill them on why they continue to say or if they don't continue, why they did say that joe biden didn't win the election fair and square. but frankly, there's some other shows that have just had a ban on anybody who they feel has -- is an election defire. i think that's moral -- denier. i think that's moral posturing. if the news is important enough, i'm not going to say our viewers can't hear from them. howie: because they can't hear from them on any other subject. >> exact hi. howie: how do you deal with people who are anticipate anti-. i'm not talking about the biden mandate, which is a legitimate subject, people who just say the vaccine doesn't work, isn't safe, people shouldn't take it, would you put somebody like that on the program? >> if that's one of many things they say and i want to talk to them about other things. would i have someone on the show to deny vaccinations? absolutely not. and i've been really strong on this since covid first came out. this is about the scie

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