plus, stephen welcomes tom hanks, katy tur, and mac demarco sitting in with jon batiste and stay humanon tape from the ed sullivan thear

plus, stephen welcomes tom hanks, katy tur, and mac demarco sitting in with jon batiste and stay humanhe

plus, stephen welcomes tom hanks, katy tur, and mac demarco sitting in with jon batiste and stay humanive on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: thank you very much! thank you, thank you. ( cheers and applause ) hey, everybody! please have a seat, everybody! please! ( piano riff ) welcome, welcome, one and all, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) thank you very much. a lot of excitement. great audience. i can't blame them. first of all, happy hannukah, everybody. ( applause ) today is the first night of hannukah, when good jewish boys and girls spring from their beds to see their parents going to work because they don't have the day off. ( laughter ) it's also a huge day in alabama, election day. and now it is official: roy moore is or is not our newest u.s. senator. we taped tonight's show long before the polls closed. one thing we do know is how roy moore got to the polls. he arrived on horseback! ( laughter ) yes!

plus, stephen welcomes jodie foster with a special appearance by tom hanks and run the jewels.turing 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 ) thank you very much. thank you! hey, everybody! please, you're very kind. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) very nice, very nice group of people. happy friday, everybody. doesn't it feel great? ( cheers and applause ) getting so close. getting close to the end of the year, and everybody's working on their resolutions. mine is for america to knuckle down and maybe pick our own president next time. ( cheers and applause ) donald trump-- donald trump-- donald trump continues to deny any russian interference in the 2016 election. now, "the washington post" published a massive article yesterday, and we learned that in january trump's advisers begged him to accept the findings of the intelligence community about russian interfere