Passionate i can barely hear myself talk. Oh, now the crowd has burst into song. Lets take a listen. laughter cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes Queen Latifah and Radhika Jones, 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 hi there welcome cheers and applause whoo thanks, everybody welcome one and all welcome to the late show. Ladies and gentlemen, im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause you know, americans rarely hear good news out of the middle east, but yesterday, we got some the president announced that u. S. Special forces killed isis leader and guy clearly rationing his just for men, abu bakr albaghdadi. laughter albaghdadi was a notorious terrorist responsible for the death of thousands. A true monster. So id like to congratulate all the brave Service Members in our special forces who risked their lives and got the job done. cheers and applause just take your time with that. No rush cheers and applause and heres the thing id also like to congratulate president donald j. Trump, but he just makes it so hard. laughter because when he broke the news yesterday, trumps entire press conference was about himself. Last night, the United States brought the worlds number one terrorist leader to justice. From the first day i came to office and now were getting close to three years i would say, wheres albaghdadi . I want albaghdadi. Theyd come in, sir, we have somebody under i said, i dont want somebody. I want albaghdadi. Thats the one i want. Stephen yeah, trump was obsessed. You might say he had al baghdadi issues. laughter applause then, trump started describing al baghdadis last moments, and things got pretty graphic. He reached the end of the tunnel, as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest. His body was mutilated by the blast. To get to his body, they had to remove a lot of debris because the tunnel had collapsed. There wasnt much left. The the vest blew up, but there are still substantial pieces that they brought back. laughter stephen do we really need to know that at 9 00 a. M. On a sunday . The best part of waking up is hearing how the guy blew up piano riff cheers and applause then trump bragged about how important this event was. This was the big one. This is the biggest one, perhaps, that weve ever captured, because this is the one that built isis. This is the biggest there is. This is the worst ever. Osama bin laden was very big, but Osama Bin Laden became big with the World Trade Center. Stephen i remember. Yeah. laughter pretty sure thats why they shot him. laughter you know how i know that killing bin laden was a big deal . Because obama never had to say killing bin laden was a big deal. laughter cheers and applause it was. A big deal. So is this. It was very big. This was very big, dont get me wrong. Killing baghdadi was a big deal. It was bigger than the bin laden announcement in one way length. Trump delivered a 50minute performance, compared to obamas nineminute speech. And, keep in mind, that was obama, so four minutes of it was ahhhh, look. laughter jon got the tone, got the tone stephen barack obama. Barack obama, there you go. cheers and applause barack obama. Then trump described al baghdadis death, using one of his favorite metaphors. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. He died like a dog, he died like a coward. Stephen ah, yes. I remember when i was a child, my dog mr. Fluffles got sick, so we did the humane thing gave him a suicide vest and chased him down a tunnel. laughter cheers and applause jon i remember that part. Stephen im afraid hes exploded a farm upstate. laughter i dont know whats wrong with this guy. It wouldnt be a Trump Press Conference or trump anything without some shameless selfpromotion. You know, if you read my book there was a book just before the World Trade Center came down. And i dont get any credit for this, but thats okay. I never do, but here we are. I wrote a book a, really, very successful book. And in that book, about a year before the World Trade Center was blown up, i said, there is somebody named Osama Bin Laden. You better kill him or take him out. Something to that effect. Hes big trouble. Stephen no, you didnt. laughter you didnt do that at all. You didnt say that at all. Not even close. We looked. We looked. We looked at your 2000 book, the america we deserve, and you make a passing mention of bin laden who, you say, bill clinton had already tried to kill. So you were predicting something that everyone already knew. as trump in my next book, i predict youll be hearing big things from this taylor swift. shes really going places. laughter time to take her out. No one listens, its okay. Shake it off. laughter piano riff cheers and applause jon come on cheers and applause haters gonna hate. Shake it off. Stephen trump did give i. S. I. S. Credit for their internet prowess, sort of they use the internet better than almost anybody in the world, perhaps other than donald trump. laughter stephen yes, true. Donald trumps a master of the internet. And he proved it on saturday when he tweeted simply, and im not making this up, dot, dot, dot, dot. cheers and applause botdot, dot, dot, dot. Now, that might seem stupid, but if you read between the lines, its idiotic. Dot, dot. Dot, dot. Trump also found time to talk about the operation. They did a lot of blasting even not going through the front door. You know, you would think you go through the door. If youre a normal person, you say, knock, knock. May i come in . The fact is that they blasted their way into the house and a very heavy wall, and it took them literally seconds. Stephen good point, if you were a normal person, you would think that special forces hunting the worlds most wanted terrorist would go up to the front door and say, knock, knock, may i come in . laughter applause weve seen it in all the best, in every movie. Jon all the movies. Stephen all the movies, they do this. Jon thats what they do every time. Stephen weve seen it in all the war movies as general alright, men, move out you know the plan. Brooklyn, kowalski, mickey, surround the house and lay down suppression fire power. And then, jackson, you haul ass to that front door, and you say knock, knock. May i come in . laughter if no one answers, leave one of those sticky notes that say we tried to make a delivery of bullets to your body, sorry we missed you, we will be back tomorrow between 10 00 and 4 00 move out lets go piano riff cheers and applause come on piano riff cheers and applause see how trump makes it so hard to congratulate him . He could just come out and say, we got him. Thank you to our brave troops for bringing this man to justice, but the fights not over. Vigilance and leave. Easy peasy, no impeachy cheers and applause he ruins the moment. Instead, he basically says, let me drop trow, to give everybody in late night plenty of flank to spank. laughter sorry about that image. I apologize for the image. Trump also made sure to thank one of americas strongest allies in the region i also want to thank the syrian kurds for certain support they were able to give us. Stephen and remember they did this even after trumps decision to withdraw american troops left the syrian kurds to confront a turkish offensive alone. Thats truly going above and beyond. Its like your ex volunteering to help you move your waterbed, after you cheated on her and forced her to fight the turkish army alone. laughter then trump defended his pullout of troops from syria with one exception were out. But we are leaving soldiers to secure the oil. And we may have to fight for the oil. We should be able to take some also. And what i intend to do, perhaps, is make a deal with an exxon mobil or one of our Great Companies to go in there and do it properly. Stephen shhhshhh youre not supposed to say that out loud. Ixnay on the oodblay for oilmay. Thats why we call these missions things, operation desert storm, or Operation Iraqi freedom, not, operation i drink your milk shake. Money, money, money, kaching laughter cheers and applause weve got a great show for you tonight. 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The holidays begin here at the disneyland resort. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, welcome back give it up for the band, everybody jon batiste and stay human cheers and applause jon, just moments from now, jon, we have royalty joining us jon thats right. Stephen Queen Latifah is going to be here cheers and applause jon come on stephen i cant believe this at this stage of my vaunted career, i have never met Queen Latifah. This is going to be a big night for me. Have you met her . No, we did a show together. The louis gates show. Now i get to see her in person stephen im looking forward to tomorrow night our friend Jennifer Aniston is going to be here. cheers and applause and i saw our friend, though i have never met her. Seems like we might be friends. Jon yeah, i get the reference. I get it. Stephen yeah, yeah. laughter you know, before john and i were talking, there was a commercial break, and before the commercial break, i was there standing right over there, telling jokes, and i was telling you jokes about how trump announced the raid that killed al baghdadi. The president was feeling so good that, last night, he attended game five of the world series between the Washington Nationals and houston astros. One of those teams will soon have the greatest honor in sports trumps pile of cold filet o fishes. cheers and applause this is rare for him to go out like this. Its been a long time since trump faced anything other than a crowd of handpicked supporters. And i have a feeling its going to be a while until he does it again, because it didnt go that well. The crowd starts off cheering our troops and then trump gets introduced cheers and applause booing stephen the president of the United States got booed while watching the national pastime. cheers and applause that is like getting kicked in the nuts by an apple pie. laughter a Great American moment. A Great American moment. Made me proud. And the crowd add more for trump than just boos. They also had their own twist on one of his favorite chants. Lock him up lock him up audience chanting look him up stephen wow, yes yes yes yes, they agreed with you they want to lock him up put him away for life, or one baseball game, whichever feels longer. laughter but there was one person the crowd was delighted to see throw out the first pitch superstar chef, friend of the show, and baseball santa claus, chef jose andres. Andres was recently nominated for a nobel peace prize, and was honored by the invite, tweeting thank you nationals, m. L. B. , and astros for inviting an immigrant to throw first pitch in a game full of immigrants cheers and applause so the nationals invited an immigrant and vocal trump critic to a game where they knew our antiimmigrant president would be. Thats like going to a concert and hearing announcer ladies and gentlemen, were almost ready to begin our avengers movie marathon. But first, please welcome your host for the evening, Martin Scorsese laughter but jose nailed it. Look how happy he is. He even capped it off with a sweet pair of hot pink sunglasses. Those arent just for style. Right after the game, he threw out the first song at an elton john concert. laughter thats good. cheers and applause joses Organization World central kitchen feeds people in disaster stricken areas, and they just surpassed handing out 1. 5 million meals just in the bahamas, which is still recovering from hurricane dorian. cheers and applause and to that end, remember our book . Whose boat is this boat . cheers and applause comments that dont help in the aftermath of a hurricane. Its made up exclusively of superdumb things donald trump actually said right after a hurricane. Proceeds from the book go toward hurricane relief, and with the help of our friends at simon and schuster, it has raised a ton of money. The latest round of proceeds come to over 76,000. And were giving all of that to joses relief efforts in the bahamas. cheers and applause things are still incredibly hard for people in the abacos. If you want to help too, go to wck. Org and give generously. Or buy the book. Christmas is coming up. Its a great stocking stuffer, provided your stockings are really wide and flat. When we come back, i preview this years new holiday movies. Stick around. cheers and applause band playing heres a good halloween trick. Buy a bunch of reeses. uh huh, there you go turn off all the lights in your house. yeah yeah trick or treat and then just dont answer the door. 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No on prop c. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, everybody welcome back, folks its three days til halloween, and you know what that means its time to start celebrating christmas laughter at least it is over at the Hallmark Channel because, this past weekend, they already kicked off their countdown to christmas. Its a nonstop marathon of hallmark Christmas Movies like marry me at christmas, finding santa, the christmas cottage, and christmas at holly lodge, which was originally titled, look we photoshopped in a black woman laughter and this year, hallmark is cranking out no less than 40 new Christmas Movies. But they have a challenger, because this weekend, the Lifetime Network began airing 30 of their own original holiday movies in order to go toetotoe with hallmark. Thats right, its a fullblown christmas war. Which, tragically, is not the title of any of their 70 new movies. laughter Christmas Movies. Christmas. There you go. Well get it out. applause clearly, theres a huge market for new Christmas Movies and im not going to let these networks hog all the nog. So, this year, the late show is also producing its own suretobe christmas classics. Take a look. This holiday season, get ready to fall in love oh, gosh im so sorry. Im in a rush. I have to get these candy canes to the afternoonage before christmas. Because miracles happen when you least expect them. Shes not like other girls. She loves christmas. And you cant spell love without christmas. You made it. Candy canes for everyone. Also, were adopting all of you. Merry christmas a candy cane family. But the late show is not stopping there. Get ready for a gingerbread wedding. I to. laughter mittens for a prince. San ata goes hawaiian. A hula dancer, on surf board, on you get the idea. And, of course honey, whats that smell . The christmas gas leak. Those other networks think they have a lot of Christmas Movies . Pitch, please. Weve also got the crimes time, a stocking for judah. Dr. Christmas. Rudolphs bad day. A very puppy christmas. An even puppier christmas. An extremely puppy christmas. The eggnog mystery. The mighty wreath, a christmas delivery, and family favorite ornament the holiday elf. Want us to stop . Too bad. Todd christmas esquire. The last snow angel. Eggnog mysteries two. The eggnog mysteries strike back. The reindeer brigade. Bells, bells, bells, bells. The eggnog mysteries 5 through 1. A very christmas. Fog dog saves christmas. Happy holidays. Very good. Weekend at santas mistletoe junction, the eggnog mysteries four, oops, we forgot that one. Miracle on 34th avenue about j. C. Penney. The eggnog mysteries after dark. White christmas, ready to kringle. The christmas barista. And over 900 more, plus the two holiday classic shes not like other girls. She loves christmas. Uhhuh. A Christmas Movie for christmas. The movie. This is pretty good. The late show christmas collection. 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Jon and i were talking before, i cant believe ive never met you before. I cant either. I dont feel like thats ever happened. Weve had to at least been in the same place somewhere. Stephen no, i would remember meeting the queen. I cant remember but i feel like i know you, i have been watching you for so long, right you just feel like stephen we have been watching you for a long time, too. You have been the queen for 30 years because this year is the 30th anniversary. cheers and applause stephen so all hail the queen you still got it thats right. Stephen that looks like youre waiting for an eagle to land on your arm or a falcon or Something Like that. I was. A couple of fourth of julys ago i actually did land there. Stephen november 28th, 1989 is when that album came out. What are you doing to celebrate . 1989 another summer sorry, i went into some public enemy. Had a flashback. Stephen are you going to have any parties . Thirty years, somebody needs to be throwing me a Party Stephen lets do it right now. Hey cheers and applause stephen there you go. Man, i mean, come on, i have been representing the women for 30 years stephen there we go. cheers and applause you seem pretty good at this. Stephen oh, i was a waiter. Look at that stephen i was a waiter for a long time, man. Did you ever wait tables . What was your toughest job you ever had . Wait tables, you mean when i worked at burger king . Stephen did you work the counter or the fry station . What did you do . They never let me get to the counter. I would probably come home with 500 a week, easily. Stephen in tips . Yep and the wrong kind of tips. No, i was making burgers. Stephen mmm. I thought you was cool, man. Stephen what did i do . I know you aint whipping out no beniets on me. What is that . Stephen its what do they call them . Zepolis. You dont like these . You just dont do that. You just dont whip out zepolis are like beniets. You dont come out your back pocket with a beniet on somebody with a hot beniet or zepoli funnel cake and champagne. Stephen why . Becausely eat that whole plate you know what mean . And well have to work it off. Stephen and powdered sugar all over. Which would be kind of then you. Stephen it will be. Well save it for the end. Lets earn it. It is the late show. Stephen when you were 19 years old, how did you foresee your career . Because youve had extraordinary you are in the middle of an extraordinary career. I mean, youve got an emmy, youve got a grammy, you have been nominated for an oscar, youre about to do th the live e mermaid live. What do you plan to be doing . I plan to be doing stuff. I plan to be doing stuff for a long time. The world was my oyster at 19. It was like the record dropped, people were receiving it well, i was touring and performing all over the country, around the world, opening up for people. I was still a baby act, so. Stephen did you ever imagine you would be getting the web dubois medal . Thats extraordinaire. cheers and applause yeah, see that right there is worth toasting to. Stephen in the past to mia an looks, mohamed ali, oprah. My favorite athlete, mohamed ali. Stephen maya angelou, her favorite athlete. Yeah, i know. She would have laughed at that. Stephen i hope so. I think she would have. I loved her, too. She was amazing. I would just talk to her sometimes on the phone. Stephen did you really just call up maya angelou and talk . Yeah, she used to have a radio show. So i called in one time so i had her number. She would do it from her house down south. So every once in a while i would talk to her on the phone. It was the most lovely thing in the world. Stephen what sort of things would you talk about because shes a giant . Just normal things. Just she would always be very proud of you. I could see why oprah looked at her like a mother figure because she was very loving, very kind, generous and, you know, she always had see, me at 19 at that age, that year, people doubted hiphop. They doubted us. They didnt think we could accomplish the things we were trying to do. Somebody like maya angelou would have been, like, yeah, you keep doing that, thats great, go for it so there are people like that that supported us back then and i just think she is always tbhant kind of person. And she would be that for any kid now. You would be, like, what are they doing and saying . She would be you just let them say what they say. Thats our job. Weve got to let the youth do what they do. Stephen weve got a lot of visual aids tonight. Theyre all good. Stephen this is pretty exciting. Thats amazing. You are playing ursula in ursula. Stephen the Little Mermaid live over on abc. First of all, does the live make you nervous at all . Well, this is live, you know. Theyre live. You know the feeling when its live cheers and applause i didnt get into this game not to do live. Stephen were not broadcasting right now. If for some reason and it would never happen if i would make a mistake in the monologue, i could restart and do it again, but its never happened, ive never made a mistake, but we could fix it. You cant fix a mistake when youre really live. Thats true, because i could literally say im not going to say it. But you could edit that. laughter you know what, its terrifying, its exhilarating, its exciting. Stephen and an incredible part, too. But theres a part thats missing when youre not live. See, when youre live, were all in this together. Its not just me. Im feeding off of them, theyre giving me energy. Stephen oh, no, theyre a big part of the show. Were going to have 500 people in the audience. Stephen oh, you have live audiences, too. This is being shot completely differently, yes. Thank you. Its all of us. They know the feeling. Youre going to have 500 people in the audience as the movie plays, and every time it goes to a live song, a song in the movie, it would be performed live. So thats the different thing thats happening with this that weve never done at anything else ive done before. Stephen no understudy . No understudy to my knowledge. I might have to kind of nip her in the pinky toe if i find out because shes not getting my job. Youre not getting my job. Im going to come in there and im going to shut ursula down. cheers and applause maniacal laughing youve got to watch it on tuesday stephen cheers. Cheers. Stephen to the queen, everybody to the queen the Little Mermaid live airs tuesday move 5 on abc. Queen latifah, everybody well be right back with vanity fairs editorinchief Radhika Jones cheers and applause band playing dramatic orchestra performance comes in lots of flavors. Theres the ampedup, overtuned, feedingfrenzyof sheetmetalkind. 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Must be a draft in here. But he did save a bunch of money bundling our home and auto with progressive. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. Hello . Sorry, honey. [ telephone beeps ] butt dial. cheers and applause band playing cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, everybody welcome back ladies and gentlemen, my next guest is the editorinchief of vanity fair. Please welcome, Radhika Jones cheers and applause band playing stephen nice to see you again. How you been is this. Im good. No champagne i see. Stephen no. We have cocktails. We have a full bar back here if you want a drink. Weve got it all. Fantastic. Anytime. Stephen im not joking. laughter i got Jennifer Lawrence cronked right there in that seat. I have a bone to pick with you. Heres the bone pick. Youre constantly making lists. New establish meant, hot hollywood, best dresseds. I am notal on any of these lists. I work very hard at being hot and establishing myself as new and the suits arent cheap. What have i got to do . These lists are put together by science. laughter stephen the science of listmaking. Theyre very scientific, so i cant really put my thumb on the scale. We put all the names in the machine and they come out. Stephen a computer, garbage in, garbage out, as they say. Big data. Stephen yes. Ouch. So stephen is this quantum supremacy . Is this what google recently achieved to figure out whos hot and not . Such a fancy name, we have been doing it longer than they have. So ill give you tips. Were in the news business, so we need things to be new, right . You just reupped your contract, you got the same job for years and years. Thats not new, so you cant really laughter applause stephen i have a new guest. All right. applause laughter stephen all right, okay, ill do my best. Ive got to quit cbs. Keep going. I havent signed yet. I think where you can break through is best dressed. Stephen okay. cheers and applause piano riff stephen all right right . So, you know, youre nailing the classic look, right. Stephen thank you. But these are adventurous and experimental time in mens fashion and, you know, you might pick a new role model for the year like billy porter, change it up. Stephen billy porter and i have gone over there and vogued with each other. You wouldnt know it because its not on your list. laughter all right. Stephen you have a new book youve edited women on women and whats in this book . This is a collection from the vanity fair archive, pieces and profiles about women by women. cheers and applause yes, thank you. Stephen how far back does this go . It goes back to the 80s. What happened is i thought of this idea my first week on the job. It was december of 2017, and it was, like, two and a half months after the Harvey Weinstein story had broken. You remember that time, it was relentless, we were hearing day after day stories of women coming out of the woodwork saying my workplace was toxic or this guy derailed my career but it was harvey and it was a lot of others things. I started to think, wow, its becoming apparent whether youre an actor or working in a factory, how often womens careers and womens identities are framed by men and presented in a male perspective. I thought im at this magazine that actually has an incredible legacy of putting female journalists and female writers on female subjects, and why not champion that and put some of them together in a collection . cheers and applause stephen im also not on this list right here. I know. I can explain that. Stephen i can understand that one. Also one other thing youre quite famous for is the vanity fair is famous for their oscar party, a big responsibility every year, the editor takes that over. How is the planning going so far this year . So we actually just shot our cover this past weekend in los angeles which is exciting, so we are now in, like, full gear planning mode and, on that note, actually, stephen, the last time i was here, we had a talk about the oscar party, and you said you hadnt been invited. Stephen this is true. Which was not true. laughter stephen i have never received an invitation. How about that . So, in front of america, right here, i would like to invite you and your wife to the oscar party. You are the first person to be invited to the 2020 cheers and applause piano riff stephen very nice. Radhika jones invites mr. And mrs. Stephen colbert for dinner to celebrate the 92nd Academy Awards sunday february 9, 2020. Black tie. I own one of those. I accept. Thank you, stephen. Stephen vanity you know when youre at ross and you find a deal on cookware that makes you say. Yes . Oh, yeah bring on the holidays thats yes for less. Everything you need to prep, cook and serve up the season. 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