gaffigan and musical guest jp saxe and john mayer, 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 ) ♪ ( cheering ) ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: happy thursday.

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gaffigan and musical guest jp saxe and john mayer, 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 ) ♪ ( cheering ) ( audience chanting stephen ) >> stephen: happy thursday. >> stephen: happy thursday. hey, everybody! hey, chris! hey, mike! what's going on? thank you, ladies and gentlemen! all of ya. good to see ya! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ thank you, gentlemen. mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. welcome, welcome, everybody, to "the late show." i'm your shows stephen colbert. it is on nights like this that i understand the privilege, the responsibility of a show like this - to come out here and talk with you, the american people, about the events today that will forever change the course of our nation's history, or not. ( laughter ) too early to tell. but i do know this: today the former president's company was indicted by new york prosecutors. (audience goes wild) >> jon: the bell rung. >> stephen: the bell tolled. and -- and -- around i want to join you in that feeling, but i hav

mayer. ♪ if you here's john mayer. ♪ if you wanna roll m then you gotta roll me all night long ♪ ♪ andna love me let me go i'm running for the last train i'm running for the last train home ♪ ♪ if you wanna know me then you got to know me through and through ♪ ♪ ♪ if you're gonna hurt me then you gotta hold me next to you ♪ ♪ no matter how you work it things go wrong i put my heart where it don't belong ♪ ♪ so if you're coming with me let me know ♪ ♪ maybe you're the last train maybe you're the last train home ♪ ♪ i'm on the last train running i'm on the last train running i surrender and i surrender ♪ ♪ i'm on the last train running i'm on the last train running and i surrender and i surrender ♪ ♪ i'm on the last train running and i i'm on the last train running i surrender ♪ ♪ i'm on the last train running i'm on the last train running and i surrender ♪♪ and i surrender ♪ ♪ >> wow >> there it is "soft rock" is out now he's going to be hitting the road on the tour early next year in february. they will kick off in albany upstate new york >> beautiful >> i have to check that out. >>> h

when john mayer went to the berkeley school of music and signed a recording deal, you did not lose scholarshipf you had one. it is only athletes who have been treated differently by virtue of their sport. i disagree with the premise of the question. if we are talking about playing -- paying players as athletes, yet, that gets into the realm of pro sports, and i think that is a more complicated topic and it intersects with federal and state law. generally speaking, college athletes at private universities are governed by federal law, whereas college athletes at public universities, just like others who work at public universities, are governed by state law. that creates a level of complexity where we do not want students at private universities treated differently than public universities. that is more complicated topic. host: our last caller, about one minute left from virginia, go ahead, joe. caller: mr. mccann, thank you for coming to the program. a couple of items, number one, the athletes today are somewhat compensated because of athletic scholarships, which allows them to attend school tu

sorry, that's the ranked hits of john mayer. ♪ ♪ ♪ wrong envelope. ♪ ♪ ♪ cat on keyboard. ♪ ♪ ♪ shootmbarrassing. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight: plus, stephen welcomes: harvey keitel and comedien randall otis 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 ) ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> stephen: there you go. ( cheers and applause ) feeling gld? good? feeling good. looking good. i like the hair. >> audience: stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: joe, louis. thanks, everybody. thank you so much! thanks so much, everybody. please, have a seat. welcome, everybody, to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and i have got-- ( cheers and applause ) folks, i'm going to shoot you straight. i've got good news, and i've got bad news. the bad news is i lied about the good news. and both bads combine to be the worst news: bill cosby has been released from prison after his sexual assault conviction was overturned. ( audience booing ) yeah, i agree with you.

then later in the week we have don cheadle, john mayer, mark wahlberg.ill be here [ cheers and applause >> steve: what >> jimmy: but first, what a show we have for you tonight he stars in the disney plus series "loki." tom hiddleston is here [ cheers and applause let's do it. also joining us in studio, gosh, she's one of the funniest people on earth. her new hbo special "tig notaro: drawn" premiers july 24th. tig notaro is here [ cheers and applause >> steve: let's do it. >> jimmy: and we have an in-studio performance from goldlink featuring flo milli [ cheers and applause "haram!" is the album. guys, i want to quickly mention, later this week we're going to be kicking off our newest summer reads book club contest. >> steve: ooh. >> jimmy: we do this every year it's a lot of fun. i'm going to pick five books that i'm thinking about -- thinking about reading [ laughter ] >> steve: thinking >> jimmy: that's what makes this club different than any other club >> steve: other clubs -- >> jimmy: i'm considering reading these. >> steve: yeah other clubs, people

the cases we're seeing are predominantly an patients >> john mayer is encouraging anyone who is not vaccinated to reconsider. >> you're not vaccinated. i would strongly encourage you to speak to someone you trust to consider different. a different decision because i think that transmission will continue in the community. >> all right. back live now. a couple other things from the hospital. they say they they believe they have enough ppe personal protective equipment for staff to deal with the upcoming search. they also say they're seeing a lot of non covid patients, people who put off visiting the hospital during the pandemic are now coming in with health problems. but for now in the east bay charles clifford kron 4 news, thank you so much, charles. let's take a closer look now at covid hospitalizations. >> across the bay area. a lot of numbers here. alameda county has seen the biggest increase since last week. the county was at 120 patients on july 22nd this week. it's at 168 can see last week and this week they're on this. the sides in contra, costa county. there are 47 new patients followed

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russell rodriguez, chief medical officer for john mayer health and contra costa county, he says there's currently 16 covid patients, and other hospitals in concord and walnut creek. >> i've had patients who have been admitted to the hospital for covid symptoms that were not vaccinated, that were, you know, somewhat sorry at the time of their admission, that they had waited for whatever reason. >> this delta variant is very concerning, largely because of how contagious it is. and i really believe we are at a point where we can say confidently, that you are either going to be vaccinated, or you are going to have covid. >> reporter: dr. chris coldwell, the chief of emergency medicine as entrances go general hospital, where there covid patients doub overnight to nine, all of them unvaccinated. she said, that needs to change. >> one of the questions that has to be asked is, to what extent are we free to make choices that have this serious of an impact on other people? and it is taking, ultimately the lives of other people, and putting them at risk, to make a choice that, from my perspective,

mark wahlberg and mark hamill will be here [ cheers and applause and we have great new music from john mayermy thanks to don cheadle, cecily strong, bts once again. [ cheers and applause ght therem philadelphia, pennsylvania thank you for watching stay tuned for "late night with seth myers." good night everybody thank you. [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: tonight, on "late night with seth meyers, florence pugh, director of "summer of soul," questlove. music from walk the moon featuring the 8g band th charlie benante. and now, seth meyers >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers and this is "late night. and we hope you all had a great, as shoemaker likes to call it, hump day [ light laughter ] let's get to the news. president biden, yesterday, criticized republican-led efforts to pass new, restrictive voting laws and said, quote, "have you no shame?" said republicans, "what if we made voting cost 40 bucks? pop star, olivia rodrigo, met with president biden and dr. anthony fauci, today, to discuss coronavirus-vaccine outreach that story, again, america's number-one teen idol met wit

john mayer once again. "sob rock. roots from philadelphia, pennsylvania thank you for watching stay tuned for "late night with seth meyers. good night, everybody. ♪ [ cheers and applause ♪ ♪ >> announcer: tonight, on "late night with seth meyers alan cumming from "space jam: a new legacy," damian lillard," an all new "closer look," featuring the 8g band with charlie benante, and now, seth meyers >> seth: good evening, i'm seth meyers and this is "late night. we're so happy you're joining us and now, let's get to the news during a visit to the white house yesterday, pop star olivia rodrigo made a surprise appearance at the afternoon press briefing to help promote youth vaccinations, which should have a big impact on the millions of teens who watch the white house press briefings. that's right, pop star olivia rodrigo made a surprise appearance at the afternoon press briefings. it was almost as surprising as when sarah sanders would appear at one it's been months according to a new book, chairman of the joint chiefs of

when john mayer went to the berkeley school of music and signed a recording deal, you did not lose scholarshiphad one. it is only athletes who have been treated differently by virtue of their sport. i disagree with the premise of the question. if we are talking about playing -- paying players as athletes, yet, that gets into the realm of pro sports, and i think that is a more complicated topic and it intersects with federal and state law. generally speaking, college athletes at private universities are governed by federal law, whereas college athletes at public universities, just like others who work at public universities, are governed by state law. that creates a level of complexity where we do not want students at private universities treated differently than public universities. that is more complicated topic. host: our last caller, about one minute left from virginia, go ahead, joe. caller: mr. mccann, thank you for coming to the program. a couple of items, number one, the athletes today are somewhat compensated because of athletic scholarships, which allows them to attend school tuition