♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight demolition derby! plus stephen welcomes john oliver, and musical guest alex ebert, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: hey there! hello, my friends, all! welcome! welcome one and all to "the late show"! i'm your host stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) last night was the oscars. how did you do in your oscar pool, jon? >> jon: i didn't win my oscar pool. >> stephen: i think i won mine. we don't have all the votes in yet. i think i won. i tell you how i clinched it. i clinched it, thanks to "ford versus ferrari" for sound editing. ( cheers and applause ) daddy -- boom! >> jon: yeah, see? >> stephen: daddy knows his dad movies. ( laughter ) it was an historic night. bong joon ho's "parasite" became the first foreign language film ever to win best picture. ( cheers and applause ) unless you count 2018's "the shape of water," which was filmed in the universal language of fish sex. ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) never actually saw it. i don't know. ( laughter ) another big winner was taika waititi, who became the first person of indigenous descent to win an oscar for writing. he used his platform to highlight an issue that affects us all: >> apple needs to fix those keyboards. they are impossible to write on. they've gotten worse. it makes me want to go back to p.c.'s. >> stephen: yes, that's right. ( laughter ) that's right. apple keyboards have gone downhill. here's how bad taika waititi's keyboard is: when he started his career, his name was tony wilson. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: i don't want it no more! give me another keyboard, son! >> stephen: the mes memorable speech was from best actor winner and noted vegan joaquin phoenix, who said this about working in movies: >> i think the greatest gift that it has given me, and many of us in this room, is the opportunity to use our voice for the voiceless. whether we're talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights. >> stephen: well said. anything else? >> we feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow. ( laughter ) >> stephen: okay, joaquin, that sounds horrible, but i never went to any of harvey's parties and i don't want to know. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) okay? that's not my scene. >> jon: wow. >> stephen: thank you. the person who stole the show was 18-year-old grammy-winner, billie eilish. the camera kept cutting to her in the audience for reaction shots to whatever the older people were doing. like her reaction to a comedy bit from kristen wiig and maya rudolph: ♪ lady in red >> stephen: wow! ow! ow! >> jon: that's cold. >> stephen: come on, billie! they're comedy giants! if a cool 18-year-old doesn't know who maya rudolph and kristen wiig are, then-- oh. ( laughter ) but i'm on tv every night. surely billie eilish knows who i am. right, billie? ( laughter ) why would you even come to my show, then? why stand in line? why stand in line to come to my show if you can't -- i don't -- makes no sense. anyway, i'm a fan. i'm a fan. >> stephen: the oscars weren't the only big results announced over the weekend. we finally have the results of the iowa caucus... kinda. they say the winner was former south bend mayor pete buttigeig, but there are still some irregularities being worked out. so iowa democratic party chairman troy price called a press conference to reassure everybody that they've got this. >> if there are mathematical rounding errors, why can't those be adjusted? >> these sheets are signed not only by the precinct chair and precint secretary-- ( audience reacts ) ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: after that, price got his head stuck in a five gallon can of van camp's pork and beans and then stumbled into a wheat thresher. ( laughter ) now, iowa is a caucus. tomorrow's vote in new hampshire is the first actual primary of the 2020 election. to make sure there's not a repeat of iowa, democrats have hired a new election consultant to tabulate votes: >> one, two, three. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: yeah. popular. very popular. billie, do you know who that was? ( laughter ) i'll catch you up on the new hampshire new hamp-enings in tonight's edition of: ♪ ♪ >> i have a plan for that. ( honking ) >> a progressive agenda. i think they will end up being the losers >> "fury road to the white house." ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: people love fury road! it's exciting, fury road! boom! ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: get into it! >> stephen: the latest polls in new hampshire are all over the map. most show bernie sanders in first, followed by pete buttigieg. there was one surprising result, a poll that new hampshire democrats would prefer an extinction-causing meteor over trump reelection. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: oh! >> stephen: hey, new hampshire democrats, you okay? ( laughter ) it explains why they've changed their state motto from "live free of die" to "please let us die." ( laughter ) with the polls relatively tight, the candidates are getting nasty with each other, especially joe biden and pete buttigieg, seen here cosplaying as father time and baby new year. ( laughter ) on saturday, biden said this about buttigieg: >> is this a act of desperation on your campaign to be making this assertion right now on mayor buttigieg? >> oh, come on, man, this guy is not a barack obama. >> stephen: is "barack obama" the only measure of things that are good? (as biden) "oh man. this turkey reuben is a real barack obama. but when i'm done, let's hit the road. because the bathroom here is no barack obama." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) but the strangest moment in biden's campaign resurrection tour came on sunday, when a voter asked him this: >> how do you explain the performance in iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win the national election? >> that's a good question. number one -- iowa was a democratic caucus. you ever been to a caucus? >> yes. >> no, you haven't. you're a lying, dog-faced pony soldier. ( audience reacts ) >> stephen: what's going on inside biden's head when he comes up with these insults? (as biden) "hmmm. let's see. what should i call her? devious squirrel-kneed kangaroo mailman? no. tricky cat-fingered panther chef? no. lying dog faced pony soldier? good one, joe. that insult was a real barack obama." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) believe it or not, this wasn't the first time biden has used this weird insult. he had to explain it a couple years ago at a rally: >> as my brother who loves to use lines from movies, a john wayne movie, there's a line in a movie, a john wayne movie where an indian chief turns to john wayne and says, "this is a lying, dog-faced pony soldier." >> stephen: see? there's a perfectly reasonable rambling explanation: john wayne and "indian chief." the only problem you could possibly have with his playful dog-faced pony language, is that john wayne's westerns don't include that quote. ( laughter ) doesn't matter. doesn't matter, sir. if someone challenges you over this quote, just remember what brando said in "the godfather." "i'm gonna make him an offer with a box of chocolates, you damn dirty ape." ( laughter ) billie, you ever see the godfather? ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) take some wrapper off this. there you go. so you brushed your teeth before you ate the hoagie! yeah. ( laughter ) of course, we still have a president, since trump got acquitted in his impeachment trial, and now he's ready for revenge on anyone he believes -- ( booing ) >> stephen: sorry -- too late! ( laughter ) he's ready for revenge on anyone he believes wronged him. i'll tell you about it in our new segment "the trump ire strikes back." ♪ ( cheers and applause ) on friday, trump proved that he's more spite than man when he fired impeachment witnesses gordon sondland and alexander vindman in a post-acquittal purge. yes, trump has gone full strongman. he's making a list of enemies and changed the name of his resort to "mar-a-gulago." ( laughter ) then trump proved that revenge is a dish best served stupid, because he also fired vindman's twin brother, an army lieutenant colonel who worked as a lawyer on the national security council staff. (as trump) "it's always been my fantasy to fire twins... but then you get -- ( laughter ) ( applause ) you know, everybody fantasizes about firing twins, but then you get in there and they're just firing each other. then what am i supposed to do? sit in the corner and furiously fire myself?" ( laughter ) you're welcome for that image. >> jon: i don't want that. >> stephen: trump also fired ambassador to the e.u. gordon sondland, despite being asked not to by a handful of republican senators. how dumb are these senators? you voted not to do the one thing that could have taken him down! that's like saying "now that we've gotten rid of all of the town's silver bullets, that werewolf will really listen to us. sit, werewolf, sit. aaaaaaaah!" aaaaaaaah!" kill me! kill me! ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) okay. i'm okay. in times like this, some people might get depressed. but not me. 'cause this weekend, there was one bright orange spot. this actual photo of donald trump's face, seen here, i'm going to guess, after bobbing for french fries? ( laughter ) the photo shows a clear border between trump's bronzer and the stolen cadaver skin that enshrouds the remainder of his head. ( laughter ) he looks like hannibal lecter when he stole a different person's face to escape from prison. (as lecter) "hello, clarise. i'm a very stable genius." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) but, hey, i'm in entertainment, i know what it's like to take a bad head shot. maybe it's better in black and white? oh, god! ( laughter ) it's like he motor boated a freshly printed newspaper. ( laughter ) (as trump) "come here, marmaduke." ( laughter ) >> jon: whoa. >> stephen: now, for some reason trump was upset about this photo. so he tweeted, "more fake news. this was photoshopped, obviously, but the wind was strong and the hair looks good? anything to demean!" you know things are bad when trump is thanking the wind. ( laughter ) his hair and the wind don't have great history. and what does that mean? and "hair looks good?" that's the definition of narcissism. (as trump) "my face looks like i got a chemical peel at jiffy lube, but hair looks good." ( laughter ) as usual, trump's lying. that's what he looks like. i've met him. some nights i wake up screaming. ( laughter ) earlier today, the president met with governors from across the country. and he previewed the event with this tweet: "meeting with u.s. governors in a short while. all states are doing well. 'thank you mr. president.'" wait, if you are meeting with them in a short while, how can you already quote them? (as trump) "'thank you, mr president' is what the governors will say, and then go on to 'you look so fit, have you been working out? also, i totally believe that's your face.'" ( laughter ) when he finally did talk to the governors, he went after nato. >> with nato, as you know, i've gotten, $130 billion more, they will pay. because nato was going down like a rocket ship. >> stephen: oh, yeah, that thing that famously goes down, a rocketship. this is the man who wants to start "space force." before we launch any of those rockets into space, let's make sure they're pointed the right way. ( laughter ) space force! ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) even a lying clock tells the truth twice a day. >> we're doing a lot of things that are good including waste and fraud. tremendous waste and tremendous fraud. ( audience reacts ) ( laughter ) >> stephen: true, true. that is happening. coincidentally, "tremendous waste" and "tremendous fraud" are trump's nicknames for eric and don jr. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) tremendous, what a waste. tremendous waste, tremendous fraud. trump and the governors had an event last night where the military band performed. and of course, trump turned a compliment about them into a brag about himself. >> i don't know if anybody here has an ear for music. believe it or not, a long time ago i was told i have a great ear for music by somebody. i took a test. they said, "he has a wonderful aptitude for music." >> stephen: oh, let's see some of his aptitude for music. >> green acres is the place to be. farm livin' is the life for me. land spreadin' out so far and wide. keep manhattan, just give me that countryside. >> stephen: yeah, he really got an ear. he really captured that farm feeling. he sounded just like a cow being artificially inseminated. ( laughter ) billie, you like that joke? ( piano riff ) ( cheers and applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. john oliver is here. stick around! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) obama: he's been a leader throughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. michael bloomberg is here. vo: leadership in action. mayor bloomberg and president obama worked together in the fight for gun safety laws, to improve education, and to develop innovative ways to help teens gain the skills needed to find good jobs. obama: at a time when washington is divided in old ideological battles he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions. bloomberg: i'm mike bloomberg and i approve this message. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: welcome back. ( cheers and applause ) welcome back, and give it up for the band jon batiste and "stay human," right over there! ( cheers and applause ) everybody's looking so good tonight! looking so good! ( cheers and applause ) jon, in just a moment -- in just a moment, our dear friend john oliver is going to be out here. ( cheers and applause ) he's a national treasure, and he's an american citizen now. >> jon: oh, wow. >> stephen: yeah, i have been hunding him about it for years, he finally took my advice and became an american citizen. we're lucky to have him. one of the greats of all time julia louise dreyfus will be our guest tomorrow night. will ferrell the next night. folks, let's get straight to our marquee guest. i've had the pleasure of interviewing my first guest many times, but this is his first late show interview as a u.s. citizen. please welcome brit-turned-yank, john oliver! ( cheers and applause ) ( yank doodle dandy playing ) ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen( cheers and applause) >> stephen: good to see you. good to see you. >> good evening. good evening. ( cheers and applause ) thank you. >> stephen: delightful. thank you. thank you. >> stephen: welcome fellow american. >> thank you! >> stephen: now, was this a long time coming? how long -- how long -- >> this was a long time coming. >> stephen: yeah? i came to america, much like eddy murphy -- ( laughter ) i, too, am a fictional african prince. i came here in 2006 and, so, i have been kind of wanting this to happen pretty soon after that. >> stephen: okay. o it's been over a decade. >> stephen: that's par for the course. it takes a long time to become an american citizen. >> definitely right. i had to go through a number of visas, green card, i started applying for citizenship and it takes longer because there are sand in the gears, and i had to get a second green campletd it was unbelievably tense. i'm incredibly relieved. >> stephen: i understand there's a test you have to take. >> i'm slightly out of breath, and that is alarming considering i've literally just been carried out. >> stephen: that's not a good sign. >> i mean -- >> stephen: have a drink. i don't know what a medical warning sign is. i bet you all saw that. >> stephen: yeah, sure. i don't think that sounds as cardio. >> stephen: yeah. ( laughter ) yeah, right. well, you're an american now. >> that's true. >> stephen: you don't have to exercise anymore. ( cheers and applause ) sure. yeah. >> cheers. >> stephen: cheers to you, too. >> pinky finger down. >> stephen: sure. as a prospective american citizen, do you have to take a test? >> of course. >> stephen: i didn't have to. i was born. >> oh, that's right. >> stephen: i navigated the birth canal and they handed me the little thing when i came out. >> there are 100 different questions. they select ten to fire them at you. >> stephen: what happened at appomattox. >> it's not exactly that, but it's what's the state capitol, what's the president. it becomes real every time you say it. >> stephen: exactly. the first question is what is your phone number. i was so scared, i blanked. she said, let me just check your social security number. i said i don't know that either. this isn't going well! >> stephen: did they imagine john oliver was impersonating someone else? >> i was trying to explain to them why i was so frightened. i was trying to explain to my wife, i have been anxious about this for a decade, so it's been ever present hung in the back of my mind. there was part of me even the at a of the ceremony, i thought there was going to be a trap. there was a part of me that literally thought they would open the door and there would be plastic sheeting on the ground and jared kushner would be sitting there stroking a hairless cat, saying, oh -- that would have made more sense to me than the thing that was happening. >> stephen: did you have to renounce the queen and her empire and all that stuff? >> i did that years ago. so -- ( laughter ) >> stephen: we're americans! i'm a dual citizen so i have two passports like jason bourne. >> stephen: wow! yeah, i can go anywhere, kill anyone. >> stephen: i believe that's what it is, dual citizenship. >> i think his confidence in getting strong and hurting people really came from his ability to live and work anywhere on earth. ( laughter ) >> stephen: you get to vote as an american. are you excited about that? >> yes, they gave us the oath. >> stephen: it must be moving. it's incredibly moving. it was 150 people from 49 different countries, all of us had been wait ago long time for this. i had been waiting over a deca decade, the people have been waiting 30 years. so it was a big deal. there's something very inspiring about the idea of these people choosing america, not just choosing america but choosing america now -- ( laughter ) -- when the country is not at its best. ( applause ) so that's the point, like choosing -- >> stephen: that's really hopeful. >> choosing america now is like falling in love with someone who's vomiting all over themselves. i'm taking a flier there's a great human being under here. ( laughter ) it was very inspiring to watch people buy into the idea of america which obviously outlasts any president. >> stephen: america is just an idea. the land doesn't mean anything, really. >> well, don't say that to someone who's still half british too hard, the land doesn't mean anything. well, we'll take that, then. just ask india. ( laughter ) >> stephen: i've seen a lot of brexit rah-rah patriotism. there's no uncle sam to carry you out in england. >> i guess that's true. it comes out normally at sporting events. that's where you get the land of glory and flags waved around. >> stephen: what's your team? liverpool. >> stephen: liverpool. my family's in liverpool. >> stephen: okay. i love liverpool so much that the first game my dad ever took me to i was eight years old and i made him let me wear my full liverpool kit and socks and shin pads and cleats under my regular clothes because my rationale at that age is someone got hurt and ran out of players, they might have turn to the crowd and say does anyone have the necessary equipment to participate? and i would say, i do! i've come prepared! i can do it! yes! ( applause ) i have a little enough sense of consequences to think this might go well for me! >> stephen: we have to take a break. >> yeah. >> stephen: because, you know, commercials. >> sure. >> stephen: we'll be back more with john oliver, everybody. please stick around. 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( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: hey, everybody! we're back here with mr. john oliver. >> yeah, we're back. >> stephen: jonathan aloysius oliver. >> yep. >> stephen: i don't know a lot about english football -- as an american you legally have to say soccer. >> it's not what a ( bleep ) melting pot is. >> stephen: the canadian mosaic, this is a melting pot, you melt into our shape. ( laughter ) you know that? you know the canadians say that? we're not a melting pot, we're a mosaic, ( bleep ) you. ( laughter ) melt, melt! >> wow! wow! >> stephen: yeah. i've never seen this side of you. and holy ( bleep ), it's dangerous. even in small doses, i don't really like it. ( laughter ) oh, man! >> stephen: sorry. the south carolina is stronger. >> stephen: sometimes. when i'm meeting someone who hasn't been american for long i don't want them to get on the wrong path and think there's no difference than canada. >> a melting pot is where you throw ingredients in and see how it taste as decade later. >> stephen: i'm never having fondue with you. ( laughter ) okay. so soccer, football. >> yes. >> stephen: oh, liverpool! yes. >> stephen: i don't really follow u.k. football, but i understand liverpool is having a once in a lifetime season, like everyone should be watching them right now. >> it's amazing. they haven't lost a premier game. they have an incredible manager who's a charismatic german. >> stephen: there's a german here tonight. ( applause ) >> historically charismatic germans need to be treated with care, but this one is amazing. there was this incredible game last season when liverpool lost the game to barcelona and they aggregate the schools together. they had no chance, liverpool, and he said to the press, he just said i think it's most likely we will lose this game, we will try to win, but if we don't try to win, we will try and fail in the most beautiful way, and that concept just hits me where i live, fail in the most beautiful way is a poetic thing to come from a sporting coach. he's an amazing man. >> stephen: is that liverpoolian, failing in a beautiful way? >> the shipping industry died, so, yeah, i would say so. ( laughter ) >> stephen: now, harry and meghan -- >> yes. >> stephen: the megzit happened. >> yes. >> stephen: you must be transfixed by the story because you're such a royal watcher. >> you know me. ( laughter ) >> stephen: you just hang on every -- i mean, give me that -- >> i respect the throne. ( laughter ) i don't know if anyone cares as much as they likely think they do, but i will say -- >> stephen: i don't. you don't. >> stephen: i don't care at all. americans generally care more than y'all do. >> even though basically it was a piece of cultural annexation. you sent an american over there and you took a prince. >> stephen: yeah, it was a long con. it's a long con. ( laughter ) >> i think they've absolutely done the right thing. i think it was a horrible situation for them to be in. i think last time one of the more recent times i was on the show before the wedding is this is going to be rough, the british tabloid press is rough on royalty so i fully understand why they wanted to get out of there. >> stephen: do you understand americans' obsession about this? the royal family seems like a tourist trap to me. >> i understand being fascinated by someone else's pageantry the same way i'm fascinated by the super bowl halftime show. planes going over and j. lo going boink? ( cheers and applause ) i just think a royal wedding is just the american version of that. >> stephen: okay, i can buy that. we have to take a brief break again. please don't go away, there's more john oliver. there can never be too much john oliver. he's like jell-o. >> that's not true. 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( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome back! we were having fun in the commercial break. i hope you enjoyed it, too. we're here with john oliver. john, season 7 sunday, you have a fantastic ad campaign coming out. >> yes. >> stephen: if there's hope for him, there's hope for all of us. >> yes. that's our post-it. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> i love this. i love this so much. >> me, too! >> stephen: this is the most honest ad i've ever seen. >> it's the most hope i think we can plausibly offer. i forgot it was coming out last week and i saw a bus pulled up in front of me and there was a guy standing next to me and he looked at me and said why would you do that to yourself? ( applause ) >> stephen: and in times square! >> in times square! >> stephen: there you go. ( cheers and applause ) ( piano riff ) everyone tries to look as sexy as they can. >> we've done the impossible. we've made times square a genuinely worse place to be. if i was walgreen's there, i would be so mad. we've got no control overt it. it's amazing. >> stephen: people going into this walgreen's right here to buy birth control look at that and go, never mind. we're good. >> we're good. we're good. >> stephen: no need. not a problem. money back in the pocket. >> stephen: who is this kid's crush? how old are you here? >> i was there probably 15, 14. >> stephen: 14, 15? yes. >> stephen: who was this kid's first crush? >> my first crush? i was asked this the other day. i never thought what your first crush ever was as a human being, and i think mine was eeyore from winnie the pooh. >> stephen: really? yeah. >> stephen: he was lonely and you wanted to make him feel better? >> i liked his general aura of negativity plus dumped like a truck. ( laughter ) >> stephen: sure. but, yeah, i think what i really responded to was this kind of -- this manageable sadness that he had. so i think the first thing i felt really drawn to was probably eeyore from win any the pooh. >> stephen: okay. 90% unsexual way. >> stephen: sure. season 7 is about to launch right now. >> yes. >> stephen: congratulations. thank you very much. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: how long ago was -- how many years ago was season 1? seven years? >> six years. it was 2014. >> stephen: d you remember what that was like? when you start off a new show, a million things going on. >> we didn't know what we were doing. we had no idea. i stood in for jon stewart that summer ""the dail "the daily sh" i hope he wasn't looking. ( piano riff ) that was a valid attempt. yeah, so that summer i ran in jon's place with carvelle. we wanted to so 'do something different but we didn't know what it would be. we didn't know people's attention span for things we would be doing. we have been pleasantly surprised. people seem willing to sit for a while and listen to the dryest of subjects. >> stephen: thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. >> stephen: season 7 of "last week tonight with john oliver" starts sunday on hbo. john oliver, everybody! we'll be right back! 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