John Oliver makes his triumphant return to Last week tonight coming Sunday on HBO. But first he joined Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening Late show to address everything he’s been missing since his post-election season finale last fall.
“Here we go again,” Colbert said at the top of the show, explaining that the first day of Trump’s second impeachment hearings – or, as he called it, “déjà coup”.–turned out to be “much less boring” than he thought it would be. The host was especially moved by the “devastating” video House impeachment managers presented at the top of their opening arguments.
After joking about the reality that, at 43, he is the same age as seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, Oliver weighed in on the course of the day, calling it the “ perfect echo of Trump’s presidency – something that should be nothing very much made something. “
“I understand that the first lawyer who engaged in some kind of freestyle hit poetry for a while and when the second civil war threatened, is that correct?” Oliver added.
“I thought he was just trying to run down the clock,” Colbert said, comparing Trump attorney Bruce Castor to a stand-up comedian who has to perform for an hour.
Colbert also spent several minutes of his monologue toasting Trump’s’ completely unprepared ‘defense team, from Castor, who opened by accidentally calling himself the’ lead prosecutor ‘, to David Schoen, who played’ bad cop ‘against Castors’ evil attorney ” and presented a montage of Democrats who claimed that Trump should have been impeached from his first year in office.
‘Eh, Dave? That’s not the knockout punch you think it is, ‘the host replied. “Your Honor, my client did not burn down that school.” I present to court three years worth of emergency calls and say he’s an arsonist. ”
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