Stephen Colbert’s funny story about former President Donald Trump left his bandleader Jon Batiste puzzled on Thursday.
Colbert, who delivered his monologue throughout a reside taping of “The Overdue Display” on Thursday, centered his jokes at the Jan. 6 committee listening to simply hours ahead of.
The comic, in a part of his monologue, checked out former U.S. Lawyer Common William Barr’s testimony from the listening to the place he known as Trump’s 2020 presidential election claims “bulls―t.”
Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who served as an adviser within the Trump White Area, mentioned she approved Barr’s remarks in a part of a video testimony from the listening to.
“That should were a bittersweet second for the president, she in spite of everything screwed him,” Colbert mentioned of the clip’s airing.
The comic’s reside target audience let loose a mixture of groans and applause whilst Batiste shook his head into his piano.
The funny story seems to be a shot at Trump’s previous debatable feedback about his daughter’s look, together with one from a 2006 episode of “The View” the place he mentioned he’d date Ivanka if she wasn’t his daughter and complimented her “really nice determine.”
Colbert, in his monologue, additionally joked in regards to the committee clip appearing pro-Trump rioters studying the previous president’s tweet about what former Vice President Mike Pence “will have to have” finished on Jan. 6, 2021.
“They had been studying his tweets without delay as they stormed the Capitol, the one means he may well be directing them extra is that if he despatched them over Ikea directions for the gallows,” Colbert joked in a connection with the mob’s “Dangle Mike Pence” chants.
You’ll watch Colbert’s complete 10-minute-plus monologue from “The Overdue Display” beneath.