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On Monday night, Stephen Colbert gathered his “best tv friends” Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver connected nan sofa aft a speech which focused connected warfare successful nan Middle East, Donald Trump’s latest slew of AI images and Sean Duffy’s return to reality TV.
Stephen Colbert
On The Late Show, Colbert discussed reports that nan US president sent Iran a one-page memo past week outlining his bid plan. “I’m told we person a copy,” he joked, earlier flashing up a handwritten statement successful nan style of a schoolhouse kid’s emotion letter, which read: “Will you spell to bid pinch me? Yes aliases no”.
Over nan weekend, Iran responded to Trump’s connection pinch a database of demands that included reparations for nan warfare and afloat power complete nan strait of Hormuz. They besides said that they were consenting to suspend improvement of their atomic programme but for a shorter clip than nan 20 years requested by Trump.
“Twenty years isn’t moreover that long,” laughed Colbert. “Anne Hathaway looks precisely nan same. And if anything, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt are more twinkling than ever.”
When asked connected Monday astir his plans to extremity nan war, Trump said: “I person nan champion scheme ever. It is simply a very elemental scheme … Iran cannot person a atomic weapon. Very simple.”
“The only point simpler than nan scheme is nan man who has it,” deadpanned Colbert to assemblage applause.
The president spent this weekend’s Mother’s Day posting a slew of AI-generated images: immoderate showed Trump surrounded by pinkish hearts while different proclaimed him “the top of each time”.
“He’s besides engaging successful immoderate recreational idolatry,” Colbert said of a caller 22ft Trump statue astatine his Miami play club. “[It’s] amazingly wrinkly. They forgot to steam retired his pants, his garment and his face.”
The big past turned to Duffy, nan proscription caput and a erstwhile reality tv characteristic known for shows including The Real World: Boston and ESPN’s Great Outdoor Games. Over nan weekend, Duffy announced his return to TV pinch a reality show called The Great American Road Trip, which sees him recreation crossed nan US pinch his woman and 9 children.
“Well, it’s amended than him trying to tally stuff,” said Colbert. “Maybe he’ll animate nan remainder of Trump’s furniture to neglect their ain jobs.”
Duffy’s reality show will spot nan family visiting humanities landmarks crossed nan state successful a five-part YouTube series. In a trailer, nan proscription caput tells his family: “We request a song. We can’t do a roadworthy travel without nan song.”
“Incorrect,” Colbert responded. “You can’t do a roadworthy travel without trying to brace nan Bluetooth, failing, past accidentally connecting Mom’s telephone – which is halfway done nan horniest imagination caller allowed by law: it’s astir a feline who’s half-duke, half-horse, each penis.”
On Fox and Friends, Rachel Campos-Duffy, nan carrier secretary’s wife, promised that nan show would beryllium an family focused antidote to nan “Pornhub world” that we unrecorded in. “Incidentally, ‘real bully family stuff’ is 1 of nan astir celebrated categories connected Pornhub,” joked Colbert.
Last week, nan Pentagon released 160 never-before-seen files related to UFOs. In a Truth Social post, Trump said: “With these caller documents and videos, nan group tin determine for themselves, ‘What nan hellhole is going on?’ Have nosy and enjoy!”
The documents see grounds from astronauts of seeing “very agleam particles of light” successful nan region and “flashes of light” wrong nan spaceship cabin. The big past claimed to person footage of Buzz Aldrin describing those flashes: successful fact, he past played a brilliantly eccentric video of Céline Dion scatting.
