. >> giovanni russonello is a culture reporter for "the new york times." >> i think he was so incrediblynprepared to greet a donald trump presidency. >> at some point it stopped being funny for him? >> it did stop being funny. >> and got down right uncomfortable when trump went from underdog to front-runner. >> donald trump has taken the state of florida. that's a horrifying prospect. i can't put a happy face on that. and that's my job. >> all of his emotions were on display, and it made for incredibly arresting television, but in some ways disturbing. you're watching a guy have his hopes drain out of him right on the air. i've never seen anything like that before. >> sorry to keep up waiting. complicated business. >> when it was all over and the results were in, colbert, shell-shocked, left the audience with some dark final thoughts. >> so how did our politics get so poisonous? i think it's because we overdosed, especially this year. we drank too much of the poison. >> i think there was some sort of psychological change that came over colbert. >> we as a nation agree that we should neve