I have no idea how Colbert and Meyers pulled these pieces and jokes together in an hour.....but they did, and the results are very funny....
Hilarious summary of the debate from Stephen Colbert.....8 very amusing minutes, with some great zingers...
Stephen Colbert broke down the the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during an epic live monologue on The Late Show Monday.
The host opened with the lopsided expectations for both candidates, drawing the fine line Clinton had to walk between "confident but not smug, knowledgeable without being a know-it-all, charming without being affected, commanding but not shrill, also likable, authoritative, warm and not coughing. Meanwhile, Donald Trump had to not commit murder — on camera."
Elsewhere, Colbert honored Clinton's debate preparedness with a new nickname — Preparation H — and cracked that Trump's constant sniffing made him "sound like the coked-up best man in the bathroom at a wedding." Colbert also used Trump's obsession with "law and order" as a chance to toss in a few cheeky "dun dun" effects, but also questioned the Republican nominee's interest in "cybering." "Trump's advice is, has America tried unplugging terrorism and plugging it back in?" Colbert cracked.
Good story from Vox.....
Try to imagine yourself as a modern-day Rip Van Winkle awakening after a few years of hibernation. You weren’t following the election news, but you knew it was a big story, and so you tuned in to tonight’s first presidential debate to see what the hubbub was all about.
You’d be confused.
You’d quickly see that Hillary Clinton represents a familiar archetype. She’s been in American politics for a long time. She served as the nation’s top diplomat and as a United States senator. She sponsored bills and was part of diplomatic agreements. She spoke fluently about her ideas on a range of issues. She took some jabs at her opponents, and she was sometimes a little boring and in the weeds.
You would see, in other words, that the Democrats had nominated an experienced politician — it’s what you do.
The other party, by contrast, seems to have done something weird. Their nominee, Donald Trump, seems erratic — peevish, visibly annoyed at being referred to by his first name, lashing out at Rosie O’Donnell for some reason — and mired in controversy. Accused of practicing racial discrimination in his businesses, he says being sued by the federal government is “one of those things” and even though he paid up, there was “no admission of guilt.” Pressed to release his federal income tax returns, he said he can’t because he’s being audited, which really just seems like a confirmation that his returns would be interesting and worth seeing.
But beyond the personal controversies, he rather clearly has no idea what he’s talking about.
"A Closer Look" at the spectacle from Seth Meyers, with a bit more detail and clips from the debate. He's very clever.....an excellent 9 minutes....
The New York Times reported that Trump “can get bored” with debate prep and his advisers “see it as a waste of time to try to fill his head with facts and figures.” But as Seth Meyers noted on “Late Night,” there’s a reason for that.
“Yeah, his head doesn’t have room for facts and figures because it has to hold seven words.”
Here are the words:
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While Trump seemed unprepared, Clinton was just the opposite.
“Hillary was over-prepared with one of her patented lukewarm zingers,” Meyers said before playing a clip of her “trumped up economics” crack.
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