Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, checks and unbalanced. Plus, stephen welcomes will smith and andrew scott featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen oh, my goodness hey, everybody, thank you so much. Welcome to the late show. I am your host, Stephen Colbert. Things arent going well for donald trump today. Half of Congress Absolutely hates him, and the democrats arent fond of him, either. laughter ill tell you all about it in tonights don and the giant impeach. I dont like to be the sucker. Stephen now a lot of people have been saying up tow this point, people have been musing publicly, when is the constitutional crisis coming . Well, mark your calendar, tattoo it on your forehead, and flip off your boss, because its here. This afternoon, the white house delivered on their previous obstruction of justice with an official letter telling the house of representatives that trump will not cooperate with their impeachment inquiry. Yes. booing dont get him wrong. Dont get him wrong. Trump would like to help with their inquiry into his conversation with ukraine but, tragically, he has phone spurs. laughter the white house cheers and applause the white house the white house made the announcement in an officially bitchy eightpage letter to congress, writing, given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it. Wait, wait, wait, wait. You cant just not participate in your own impeachment. as judge sir, you are charged with assault and battery. How do you plead . as defendent uh. Pass . laughter can i buy a vowel . I would like to. The letter is full of absolutely bonkers arguments, telling the democratic leadership, you have denied the president the right to crossexamine witnesses. The witness is trumps incriminating phone transcript, which he released. If he wanted to, he could crossexamine himself. Where was i on the night of the phone call . I was on the phone ahha well, let me ask you this, if thats the case, did you get any dirt on joe biden . laughter applause now, the letter same letter applause the letter whines on, the president cannot allow your constitutionally illegitimate proceedings to distract him and those in the executive branch from their work on behalf of the american people. The president has a country to lead. Yes. And its ukraine. Hes leading them straight into putins arms. Come to papa. This letter came to the house, just hours after the house was all set to hear testimony from ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland, seen here realizing, im going to jail for that guy . House democrats want to ask sondland about a series of texts he sent to the former ambassador to ukraine, which revealed that trump put pressure on the ukrainians to investigate joe biden. But sews lawyers learned the administration wouldnt let the ambassador testify, after the state Department Left a voice mail last night at telph 30 a. M. First off, state department, just text. Nobody wants to listen to voice mail. Also, anybody who calls that late only one one thing hi. Hey, gordon, its me. Its me, under secretary for trade negotiations. I was just calling because i was thinking how much i want you not to testify tomorrow. Gordon. Gordon. What are you not wearing . Notice, according to house intelligence chairman adam schiff, sondlands testimony is not the only thing the white house is blocking. We are also aware that the ambassador has Text Messages or emails on a personal device. The state department is withholding those messages as well. The failure to produce these documents we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress. Stephen and obstruction of an impeachment inquiry is itself grounds for impeachment. This whole thing is like that m. C. Escher print hands cuffing themselves. But trump, trump they love esher jokes. They love. But trump insists that he has nothing wrong, nothing to hide, tweeting i would love to send ambassador sondland, a really good man and great american, to testify. But, unfortunately, he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court. First,un this is congress and not a court, right . Second, you also know that there are no actual kangaroos. Theres also no koala bailiff, no dingo judge, the gavels not a boomarang, and the jury is not all crocodiles dundee. laughter i ask i ask because the whole kangaroo metaphor, this theme has been popular among republicans. Take florida representative and star of frat baby matt gaetz. What we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court, and chairman schiff is acting like a malicious captain kangaroo. Stephen as gaetz chairman schiff is a malicious captain kangaroo. Trumps being railroaded by the terrifying thomas the tank engine. laughter this whole thing is a load of howdy doody, and its brought to you by the letters f and u. laughter cheers and Applause Congress no, im mad no, im still in character as matt gaetz jon put it down stephen Congress Still wants to hear from the original whistleblower who started this whole thing. And theyre taking every precaution. In fact, House Democrats are considering masking the identity of the whistleblower from trumps g. O. P. Allies in congress. Hold on. The whistleblower is defending democracy and gets to wear a mask. Is it this guy . cheers and applause thank you, cap i dont know who it is. I dont know who it is. The democrats are also considering having the whistleblower alter his voice, possibly with modification technology. Possibly with modification technology. What other way would they possibly do it . President trump has betrayed our nations core ideals and turned his back on all that we stand for he must be removed from office before democracy erodes beneath our feet. I say this not just as a patriot but as a member of the Lollipop Guild the holly pop guild the Lollipop Guild i represent the Inspector General and wed like to go and drag your ass to jail oh, thats good. Thats a high. Thats a high. Jon get it all in. Loving you is easy because youre beautiful thank you. applause cheers lets turn now to trumps recent phone call with turkish president erdogan, in which trump sold out our kurdish allies. And a National Security official with direct knowledge of the call said trump got rolled. Thats not hard. Get him to the top of any hill and give him a little shove. The official also argued that abandoning the kurds sets a dangerous precedent, and hurts American Foreign policy in the long term, saying, we are telling the world we will use you and throw you away. Which, coincidentally, were also trumps wedding vows. Now, trump fired back based on a true story. That joke is based on a true story. Trump fired back at his critics on twitter, we may be in the process of leaving syria but in no way have we abandoned the kurds, who are special people and wonderful fighters. Doesnt being in the process of leaving mean the same thing as abaoning . Its like a father saying, im not abandoning you kids. Im just in the process of leaving for a pack of cigarettes and never coming back. Youll be fine. Youre wonderful fighters. laughter but he applause all right. But the president tweeted on, likewise, our relationship with turkey, a nato and trading partner, has been very good. Turkey already has a large kurdish population and fully dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot understands that while we only had 50 soldiers remaining in that section of syria, and they have been removed, any unforced or unnecessary fighting by turkey will be devastating to their economy and to their very fragile currency. We are helping the kurds financially weapons laughter applause as trump hey, kurds, id like to help you financially weapons le me give you a few bucks guns and a Little Pocket change bullets ill throw in some coupons nunchucks laughter trump also cheers and applause trump also wanted to remind everyone that turkey is our friend, tweeting, so many people conveniently forget that turkey is a big trading partner of the United States. Also remember, and importantly, that turkey is an important member in Good Standing of nato. He is coming to the u. S. As my guest on november 13. He . Laugh what the thats confusing. Is the he turkish president erdogan . So does that mean trump calls other World Leaders by their countrys name . as trump we are america. Nice to meet you, turkey, france, bleep hole. laughter now, trumps decision to abandon the kurds has upset even some of his most loyal supporters, like televangelist and Discount Halloween decoration, Pat Robertson. laughter robertson was on the 700 club and he said this i am absolutely appalled that the United States is going to betray those Democratic Forces in northern syria, that we possibly are going to allow the turkish to come in against the kurds. The president of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven if he permits this to happen. Stephen what the huh . The mandate of heaven. I wonder if he really has lost the mandate of heaven. Lets ask the main man of heaven himself. God, everybody god, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Hey, stephen hello, all of you made in my image. Looking good stephen hey, lord, its been a while. Yeah, sorry, ive been busy. Im a consulting producer on god friended me, sundays at 8 00, 7 00 central. Only cbs. laughter stephen yeah, i hear good things. But did you hear that statement from Pat Robertson claiming that trump is in danger of losing the mandate of heaven . Oh, he is. Im seriously considering not voting for him this time. Stephen wait, what . You voted for trump . Yeah. Im his core demographic angry, old white man living in a gated community. Also, hes been really good for my 401 k . laughter applause stephen well, why would you be turning on him . I dont think hes fit to be commander in chief. Last night during prayers he asked for dirt on joe biden. This time im voting for andrew yang. I really need that 1,000. Thats the sound of the lord voting for the yang gang stephen god, everybody. Weve got a great show for you tonight. 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You come into my house, and they love you more than me . You know, i was just backstage jealous you were getting all the love. I said i need some of that on my face. Stephen thank you for being here. Youre a busy man. I know, im doing a lot. Stephen besides the premiere of gemini man this weekend. Yup, absolutely. Stephen but you also and i love this. You were down in atlanta. Oh, yeah, down in hotlanta. Stephen tyler perry has created his own studio. His own studio. Stephen on 330 acres just outside of atlanta. Absolutely, yeah. applause . Stephen people are call. People are calling it black hollywood. Yeah, black hollywood. Already. He better make some movies to pay for it. Stephen i found out there are, like, 12 sound studios. It was spectacular. Stephen film studios. And one is named after you. Yeah. Stephen the will smith soundstage. Yeah, it was fantastic. Yup. applause . Stephen what did that mean to you . You know, it was so beautiful. It was, like, you know, everybody that showed up for him. The soundstages are set on what used to be a Confederate Army base, right . You know, so, its like, tyler was, you know, 20 years ago was homeless, you know. So for him to make that transition and to create this place, and everybody that showed up, you know there was me, and halle berry and denzelle, and oprah oh, yeah, there you go. Stephen oprah and steadman right there. applause you know, it was it was just really a spectacular evening. And oprah got oprah got the big stage at the end. Thats the one, the Oprah Winfrey sound studio. Shes open rarks you know. Because i was happy with mine, you know,. Stephen yes. laughter . And then i saw oprahs. laughter stephen you know what . Ive had that receipt experience very similar. Im very happy with my house. Yeah. Stephen then i saw oprahs. Yeah, you know. laughter yeah, oprah just got and you know whats interesting about oprah. Like, oprah has been famous so long, that whoevers there, when oprahs there, youre her assistant, right . laughter you just have to help oprah. Stephen sure. Like, oprah will just start walking, and, hey, miss winfrey. You just feel like you have to assist. Stephen yeah, happily though. Yeah, very happy, you know. Ive seen barack get oprah something to eat, yeah. laughter applause yeah. Stephen wow. Okay, lets talk about your new film gemini man. I saw it last week in, i think, ang lees in his screening room. Yes. Stephen here in manhattan, which is, like, best possible situation to watch it. 120 frames. Per second. Stephen 4k. 3d. Stephen 3d, unbelievable. Ang lee what, he did with this film is really spectacular. Hes trying to he realized that home systems are you know, your Television Sound and screen at home are spectacular now. So hes trying to create a new reason for people to go to a movie theater. So with the 120 frames per second meaning its super clear. The cameras are so crystal clear, and he wants it to respond like you see real life. And youre being immersed into the 3d. You have to see it in 3d. I know you can see it on the regular screens, but you have to see it in 3d, because it is really its not old school. Its not your daddys 3d. Stephen i kind of want to see it twice. Ive seen it once now in the maxed out everything, and now i want to see it, like, in 2d, like 24 frames per second, just to see the experience. It really felt like i was in the film. It was like i was young will smith. laughter . That seems that seems that seems strange, mr. Colbert. So this character this is the first time im sorry, i didnt mean to cut you off on your own show. Stephen no, no, no, youre the guest. You actually can cut me off. I can only cut you off you always get to talk first. Good, because i come in and im stealing all your love. Stephen no, no, i dont want to interrupt you ever. Please go, please go. One more thing though laughter okay. Sorry, go ahead. Oh, man. No, so this character is the first ever 100 digital human. The young will smith so when you see it it isnt deaging. So its not me playing the character and they just stretch out my face and make me look younger. It actually is a 100 digital character, right. Its the first time ever. Stephen right. So ang you know, the technology that he created stephen but you fight yourself. I fight gliez how do you fight a purely digital like facetoface press and slamming each other into walls. How do you fight purely digital there has to be something there. There are stunt people. So do you it with stunt people. Stephen okay. And then they totally replace the stephen person. The person there, and then they put in the young will. Stephen how did you how did you pick the young will actually, before we do that, lets see a little clip of you and young will. So they can know what were talking about. Thats why youre you. You saw that the audience, we were getting above their head, right . And you said you decided in the moment. I saw it happen in your eyes. Stephen right. You said, lets show them a clip. Stephen yeah. You know what i said to myself . I said, i think our wheels are hydroplaning here. Lets get back on the road. Lets get our skiff back in the water we have a clip. You can explain what were seeing . Theres a motorcycle race. Theres a motorcycle chase where the young people is chasing the old me. And the old me is trying to defend against the young people whooping my ass. laughter . Stephen jim. Stop stop stop stephen wow. Yeah. applause stephen you yeah. Stephen you are not you are note nice to you in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Im upset with myself. Im upset with myself. Stephen we have to take a break. Please dont go anywhere because were going to be right back with more will smith, everybody. Stick around. applause get everything cle. I tell them, it may be your detergent. 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Yeah, ang lee he did a really brilliant job of how hes using the technology, how ease using the 3d. When we were growing up you were growing up a little bit before i was growing up. laughter stephen interesting, interesting. No, but stephen interesting. Im afraid thats all we have time for, will. laughter applause no stephen it is different. Its not like the redgreen situation. Its not like when they were trying to throw things at you and things. Ang was really he just wanted to submerge you into the world. Stephen right. Right . So theres not a lot of movement with it. You sit and you feel stephen im not lying when i say it is so clear and so real when youre watching it, that it feels like like, when im talking to you right now, its a very similar experience. Im, like, sitting here going, how did they make will smith look so old . This is a this is all digital. applause will smith, everybody howy understanding is tell me if im wrong theyre actually taking some of your performances or your face from when you were younger in different movies. I swear theres a moment in this when i go, i think thats from six degrees of operation. What ang lee did that was really great, he took six degrees of separation. We looked at bad boys, independence day, fresh prince, and men in the black, and he looked at that period and our first meeting i walk in and he has this full will room. Stephen its you on every screen . Its me on all the screens. And im like, yo, this dude is a real fan, right . Stephen thats like you walk into a Doctors Office and seeing a bunch of xrays, and going, this guy is really into me. laughter i go to ang, and he pulls up six degrees, and hes looking and hes sitting really close to the screen and hes like, i notice how your face notice how your cheeks, how firm and confident you are, and then theres a little wiggle. And hes sitting and looking and pointing. And fresh prince come up and hes looking at me character, i dont want any of that in my movie. laughter i was like oh, man. But to go back and look at all of that stuff was really it was stephen looking at young young you in this and looking at young you on all those screens, do you think, will smith, that you could take younger you in a fight . I would whoop my young ass. No, no. No, listen, no. I would seriously seriously. Because theres a like, this is man meat that i have now. You know, this is, like thats like old man strong, right . Stephen damn thats starting to calcify. laughter its like when you stephen its hard. When you get older and youre fighting a young person, you know youre fighting for your life. Stephen you can fight dirty. Yeah. Like, at this age, i just feel like i would really i would take it to my young self gli would imagine if i was fighting my younger self and i would never fight me in either age but both of us would lose, i think, if i fought myself. But i would definitely throw the first punch. When was the last time you were in, like, a good fight. Stephen i think i was in sixth grade. Sixth grade. Stephen that was the last time. And i think i was just a punching bag. Oh stephen thats why im a comedian, will. Stephen unfortunately, we have to take another break. But well be right back with yet more mr. Will smith, everybody. Its only going to get better. applause hello, are you the locksmith . Yes i am. Come on in. I think we were able to salvage the lock. [ shouting ] muchas gracias. 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I feel like that younger version of me and theres a certain naivete to youth that is powerful, right. When you dont know something, like, not knowing can be a real power because youll be youre aggressive, you know. So i feel like i would ask my young self for advice, you know. I would want to know, you know probably the last two years, ive really in my life been trying to recapture that youthful fearlessness. Stephen well, youve done some crazy stuff. We have a clip here im not sure if this is what youre talking about. We have this clip jim, do you have this clip its you bungee jumping out of a helicopter. Thats sort of what i was talking about. Stephen for your 50th birthday jim show him doing this. Three, two, one yeah, yeah. Stephen no, no. Yeah. Stephen no. No. Yeah. Stephen why . Yeah. Stephen why . Whose idea was that . Was that your idea . These guys are called yes theory. Ive been on social media, and im really loving social media, and i got challenged. They say, will smith, we challenge you to bungee jumping. Me, i got challenged. Im like, i aint scared. I aint scared. I not only ill call your bungee jump and well do it over the grand canyon and i was like, yeah. I towed them. And then, like, the date came. laughter i was like, oh, no. I was like it actually was was probably the scariest thing ive done in, like, 25 years. The i wanted to not know anything, right. I wanted to do it and i wanted to do it live. So i didnt do rehearsals, anything like that. Stephen you had never bungee jumped before . I had never bungee jumped. I wanted to go and let it happen. And i walked out there and got on the helicopter and i thought i was gog get in. And they said, no, no, you cant get in. You have to stand on the outside when it takes off. That was the first thing. I should have called it then. We got up and the guy looks at me and says, hey, listen, the only way you can get hurt, you see this bungee cord . And all the guys were holding the bungee cord, and the bungee cord weighed over 200 pounds. And he said, im going to count backwards from five, and the only way you will get hurt if you dont get away from the chopper. Theyre letting that bungee cord go, and youre going down, and the only way you dont get hurt is if you dont get away. And i was like oh, no. And i was like oh, no. And i see them go. laughter aaarrrgghhh cheers and applause stephen youre a better man than i. A better man than i. I just thought of something i would tell my younger self. Stephen what . I would go back and say hey, man, dont do wild, wild west. cheers and applause stephen why why i would say, dude, do neo. I got offered stephen the matrix. Audience ooh relax relax. How do you think i feel is this what this is . They sent me this. Oh, yes. Stephen is this from instagram. Thats from my instagram. Stephen this is you. Who did this . There are young creators who send me a lot of stuff stephen this is you mixed with keanu. As neo. As neo, yeah. Stephen you kind of look like you would also make a very good jim, i can see this again a very good young eddie murphy, i think. laughter very interesting there. Yeah. Yeah, they did the blend of ive told that story a couple of times. I think i would definitely say that to my younger self. Stephen i dont think you need to be neo, because, will, you are the one. Oooo you just penetrated my soul. laughter stephen its what i do. Will, so good to see you. Appreciate it. Stephen gemini man is in theaters this friday. Will smith, everybody well be right back. band playing cheers and applause [screams] ever since you brought me home, that day. Ive been plotting to destroy you. Sizing you up. Calculating your every move. You think this is love . This is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. 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For the character to be hot stephen i heard about hot priest, and i thought, hes good, but im not sure i will buy him as hot. I totally agree. Stephen i knew you from sherlock. And i found you so murderous and terfietion i cant find that attractive. Whatever floats your boat. Stephen ely i have done a lot of vilnius characters before so i was looking to do something a little more similar to myself. Stephen youre not villainous at all in this. I have a little dark side. In thine, no, w we wanted to have a Catholic Priest who is represented as a good person. I think sometimes the Catholic Church is represented. laughter stephen well, they only have themselves to blame. Well, they do, a little. But, yeah stephen hes catholic. I was brought up catholic myself. So when we first started talking about this character, we wanted him to be a good man who has a genuine dilemma, you know, between his love of this woman and his love of the church. And, you know, thats a thats a real dilemma for a lot of a lot of people. And so we wanted it to be a real not just a gimmicky love story. So the fact that the world has embraced it is really genuinely cool. And, you know, the pope has just come out this week talking about opening up the discussion again about allowing priests to to get married, which i really i really welcome. I mean, even just applause yeah. Stephen sure. I think that would be lovely. If priests could have gotten married, if priests were you an altar boy or anything like that . I wasnt an altar boy. But i was brought up in catholic ireland. And there are dwindling numbers when i was going to school there were hardly any priests. They were dying for priest s. Stephen same thing here. I feel the dwindling numbers, we could do something about them if people were allowed to be married. If i could be married, i think i would have considered it. Exactly. I love an audience. Absolutely. Stephen even an audience of one would be nice. Right, right. Stephen to make him laugh. I think its really true. And this, you know, mindfulness and spirituality is something that people of my generation are really into. Because theres a sort of gap in the market because i think people feel a little let down by so, so, so the whole priest thing has been cranberry. Stephen now, very quickly, here, youre in an upcoming series called modern love. Yeah. Stephen which is based on the New York Times column of the same name. Articles, yes. Stephen its eight episodes. And theyre little halfhour films. Great actors, anne hathaway, tina fey, and dev patel. And each story is different different. Stephen theyre all different types of love stories. Each forms of love. Stephen do you have a favorite love story . Well, i feel like all drama is sort of love in some way. But the one for me, i played hamlett a couple of years ago, and hamlett to me is the greatest play ever written, and weirdly to my mind, the greatest love story. Its about familial love, love of your country, love of your parents. Romantic love. Stephen hes not a good boyfriend. Hes a bit of a downer. Stephen he is. At least fleabag didnt end up in a pond. Theres a huge amount of comedy in hamlett as well. And thats the greatest love story ever. And its about a young man whos got Mental Health issues. And its incredibly stephen depressed. Yeah, he is. And that story, which always just blew my mind, a 400yearold story, and the idea about its about a young man who has Mental Health issues who has been told by his family, dont feel, be a man, be a man. We did it 150 times, and its nearly a fourhourlong play. And we had incredible audiences. Im a bit of a shakespeare nerd, andient to bore you. But what i find fascinating about it, in order for shakespeare to stay relevant, i dont think you need to cut it down. I think you need to make it as exciting and as thrilling for an audience of today that it would be 400 years ago. Because, you know, we binge watch tv. You know, we watch five hours of television, if its exciting. The idea is dont cut it down. Just make it four hours of really exciting plays. Anyway, ill stop talkin talkint shakespeare. Stephen no, not at all. Thats amazing. I could talk about hamlett all night. Theyll turn the cameras off. Andrew, thank you so much. Thank you. Stephen modern love premieres october 18 on amazon. Andrew scott, everybody well be right back. Hey. Hey. You must be stevens phone. Now you can take control of your home wifi and get a notification the instant someone new joins your network. Only with xfinity xfi. Download the xfi app today. Blow a kiss, into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss, into the sun all we need is somebody to lean on tto harrison, the wine tcollection. To craig, this rock. I leave these things to my heirs, all 39 million of you, on one condition. That you do everything to preserve and protect them. With love, california. Stephen thats it for the late show. Tune in tomorrow when my guests will be jonathan van nes and brett gelman. Now stick around for james corden. Good night captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by Media Access Group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org are you ready yall to have some fun feel the love tonight dont you worry where it is you come from itll be all right its the late, late show