Jimmy cheers and applause hits it donald, the gloves are cheers and applause donald, the gloves are off. Hey, speaking of gloves, i got you a pair for your birthday. Your childs medium, right . Stephen whooo donald, ive got a travel tip for you. When youre going through customs and they ask if you have anything to declare, try not to blurt out bankruptcy. Oh, that is a billionaire bitch slap. Hey, donald, donald. Your Companies Fail so often, you must have gone to Business School at Trump University oh, donald, he just dropped you like one of your first two wives. cheers and applause youre shiny, orange and empty inside. I would say you are a traffic cone but i would swerve to avoid a traffic cone. Oh stephen thats going to leave a mark, keushan. Cuban. Donald, you know that to be a billionaire, you have to have the billion part in your bank account. Not just the air. Stephen you just fell in the shark tank. Donald, i know you have no shot with hispanics because theres no way in hell youre getting the cuban vote. Stephen whooo donald, the only way youre worth 10 billion is if i paid you nine and a half billion to wash my balls its the late show with stephen colbert. Tonight stephen welcomes tony goldwyn, mark cuban, and lewis black. Featuring jon batiste an stay human. And now live from the sullivan theater in new york city, its time for the 2016 captioning sponsored by cbs cheers and applause . Stephen whooo thank you very much. Whooo, whooo, whooo cheers and applause . Stephen thank you, everybody. Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen, stephen, Stephen Stephen welcome to the late show thanks so much. cheers and applause . Stephen thanks, everybody. Welcome to the late show, coming to you live from the ed sullivan theater here in new york city. Im your host, stephen colbert. cheers and applause folks, it is night three of the Republican National convention. Now i dont know if you you guys wamped last night the show, yeah. You really should have cheered more. Now last night i said the convention was going so smoothly, and i complained it was boring. Well, oopsa cabadra. Tonight the convention bus took an unexpected turn and plunged into excitement canyon. Let me take you through and see what happened. We started out today counting down till tomorrow when donald trump will finally speak for the fourth time. laughter and donald made a triumphant entrance into cleveland this afternoon, complete with his own theme song. laughter . Stephen you might recognize that actual song, that they were pumping out of the helicopter. It is the theme from the movie air force quun one i assume because like Harrison Ford donald trump is a famous person pretending to be the president. applause . Stephen get off of my airplane jon thats har ison. Stephen thats my Harrison Ford impression. Donald did not fly to cleveland on the helicopter, thats for losers. No, might as well take a bus. He through trump force one, his plane with his name on the side to cleveland to get on his helicopter to fly to a slightly different part of cleveland, slightly wasteful of fuel. It would be easier just to get out and stab a penguin in the heart. Meanwhile, meanwhile, ted cruz was getting ready for his big speech tonight by giving another speech, which got slightly upstaged. Our party now has a nominee. And i dont know all right. That was pretty well orchestrate ed jeff, did you email them to fly the plane right when i said that . Stephen yeah, yeah. You could almost see trump in the pilots window doing this. laughter yes, trumps plane flew right behind cruz in the middle of ted cruzs rally. It really makes you wonder why is ted cruz Still Holding rallies again . laughter okay. So it was a bit of a a bit of a screw you. A bit of a screw you but as they say in texas, revenge is a dish best served con queso because tonight in his prim time speech, ted cruz did not endorse donald trump. And the Trump Delegates were enfeugo. We must make the most of our moment. To fight for freedom, to protect our god given rights. Even if those with whom we dont agree. Stephen chaos. You could barely hear cruz talking. The cruz people were fighting the trump people. And i believe have we gotten it . Yes, weve gotten a reverse shot of what was happening on the convention floor. cheers and applause . Stephen from now on, from now on it will be known as the red convention. And again, keep in mind, how i cant impress upon you how crazy this is. He was the prime time speaker and he did not endorse the candidate. Thats like being the best man at a wedding and toasting the groom by saying, hey, buddy, youll find a good one eventually. Yeah, yeah. applause yeah. Maybe without such big kangels, okay, after that was the bestman, not me. I was in character. Now after the cruz missile hit its target we heard from eric trump seen here giving a speech in front of americas bright future. And i endorsed his fathers plans for this nation. Its time for a president who can make America Great again, ahead of budget and ahead of schedule too. Stephen yes. laughter ahead of schedule. Yes, ahead of schedule. Donald trump will end america sooner than we thought. cheers and applause . Stephen but of course tonight was really all about Vice President ial candidate mike pence. laughter what year is it . laughter okay. Pence in his speech wasted no time praising donald. Hes a man known for a large personality, a colorful style and lots of charisma. And so i guess he was just looking for some balance on the ticket. Stephen yes. Yes, hes absolutely right. Hes absolutely right. applause adding pence really balances the trump ticket. Crazy boring 2016. applause but as a family values conservative, pence had one warning. History teaches us that weakness arouses evil. Stephen yes. Weakness arouses evil. And america must be strong or well be surrounded by evil boners. You know, and pence applause weakness, weakness is the vying ra of evil. And then pence laid out his credentials. Im a christian, a conservative and a republican, in that order. Stephen yes, in that order. Fourth im a list maker, fifth im a guy who looks like he fore got to be an astronaut. And sixth, sixth, im a tackling dumbee in a suit. Bring it out here. cheers and applause thank you for being here, sir. We learned a lot about pences background. His family, his accomplishments and beliefs. No question was left unanswered except for one. Whos mike pence again . laughter well, ill tell you, ill tell you, folks, governor mike pence was born in columbus, indiana one morning when i believe lightning struck a jar of mayonnaise. laughter applause im being upstaged by an inanimate object over there, i cant are that. As a child pence was an overachiever who was once even awarded a trophy for best denim jump suit. And pence will be a great Vice President because he always had big ideas. For instance, in 2001 he wrote an op ed saying despite the hysteria from the political clation and the media, smoking doesnt kill. Why . Because two out of every three smokers does not die from a smokingrelated illness. Its true. No, its true. Smoking doesnt kill you if you dont count the people who died from smoking. Just 33 . But its not just smoking. It is not just smoking, folks. Pence had his eye on another issue of national importance. The movie mulan. In 1999 he penned another op ed claiming the film was too political, saying quote, some miss chiefous liberal at disney assumes that mulans story will cause a quiet chng in the next generations attitude about women in combat. Oh, hes right, no, its subtle brain washing. The same way disney is known for promoting human animal hybrids, plural marriage and bestiality. applause be our guest, be our guest. applause laughter in 2015 pence ignited a furor when he signed indianas religious freedom restoration act which allowed businesses to discriminate against lgbt patron patrons but he was just following the old saying, the customers always straight. Now a lot of people are out there saying, i dont care about mike pence. Including donald trump. But if trump and pence win, you will care about pence because there is huge Vice President ial news just out today. You see, when trump was vetting Ohio Governor john kasich as a possible running mate, his son, donald trump, jr. , asked governor kasich, did he have any interest in being the most powerful Vice President in history. Which is saying something since we have already had a Vice President who was half machine and got away with shooting people in the face. applause and apparently when kasichs advisor asked how this would be the case, donald, jr. Explained that his fathers Vice President would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy. Then what, the advisor asked, would trump be in charge of. Making America Great again. Now i know a lot of people, a lot of you out there think trump isnt qualified to be president. Well, isnt it comforting to know that donald trump agrees with you. Weve got a huge show for you tonight. When we come back, i will take you to a Republican Party i went to in cleveland. Met some great people. Then tony goldwyn, mark cuban and lewis black. Stick around. 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Because sale prices as low as these dont happen every day book your low fare now at southwest. Com low fares. Nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. Sfx clap, clap, ding everybody. Now jon, jon, for the people at home who have not been enjoying it so far, you have a very special guest with the band, tell the people at home who we have here. Jon yes, indeed. We have the legendary wyclef jean. cheers and applause . Stephen thank you for being here. Jon yall got to come check him out. Hes playing at the ozzy fution fest this weekend. Thats right, going to be in new york city this saturday, come check me out, baby. cheers and applause . Stephen now now if most people, the closest you will get to one of these political conventions is to watch them on tv. But i had the chance to go down to cleveland this week and actually meet the delegates who nominated donald trump. I got to say, the good people who deserve a better candidate. And we had a blast. Take a look. This week i attended the rncs official Welcome Party it was a very exclusive affair, only 12,000 people were invited. You originally support donald trump. Im a gel delegate for donald rump. Was he your first choice. No. Did you support him from the beginning. No which choice was done ald trump for you . Okay, there were way too many candidates in the field. Stephen tell me. Okay. About there. Stephen okay. Seven. Anyone around here who was an original trump supporter . What if somehow Ronald Reagan just showed up on the floor of the convention right now . Would you still go with trump . Or would you go with reanimated reagan . No, because hes kind of similar in ways. Stephen so youd still go with trump . I would. Stephen if reagan came back and i love reagan. Stephen from the afterlife i understand. Came back from the afterlife and he said, i am here to save america, youd still say, thank you very much, but im going with donald . Today, we need a change in this country. Stephen even if it was reagan. You understand hes come back from heaven. No, no. God bless stephen hes come back from heaven. Him. I love r i love Ronald Reagan stephen and hes made the sacrifice of coming back here after being no, i got to go with stephen with the lord. Ive got to go with the donald. Stephen youre still going to go with donald trump . Got to go with him stephen how do you think he would feel . How do you think reagan would feel if he said i think hed understand stephen if he said, i came really . Hed say yeah. Stephen i came all the way back from heaven here. Do you stephen and and you still want to go with donald trump . I do. But i do. Stephen wow. Then it was time to play the game show sweeping the nation. Stephen alright, here we go. Whats your name, sir . Paul. Stephen paul . Where are you from . Manitowoc, wisconsin. Stephen aw, its a beautiful town. Ive been there many times. All right, here we go. Ready . Paul, are you a delegate . Yes, i am. Stephen are you supporting mr. Trump . I am. Stephen all right. You didnt seem that confident about it. You had to think for a second. He wasnt my first choice. Stephen he wasnt your first choice. He was not . Scott walker was. Stephen scott walker was your first choice. He dropped out i think back in the carter administration. laughter all right, here we go, ready . Here we go. This is question number one. Did or did not the nominee of your party say the following my fingers are long and beautiful; it has been well documented are various other parts of my body. False. Stephen it is trump. Im sorry. You youve been eliminated from trump or false. Thank you so much for playing, your candidate did talk about his penis. Are you nervous . No. No, im always like this stephen youre on national television, millions of people are watching you oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephen to find out whether you know what your candidate did or did not say. Are i im ready stephen you nervous at all . Man. No, no. Stephen youre not nervous . Okay. You good man. All right, lets do it, all right. Youre going to play, youre going to play. Trump or false we gave 140 million to guatemala last year. If guatemala is so poor, why are there fat ones . Trump. laughter stephen false. laughter im sorry, you do not win trump or false, but you can have your hat back. Thank you for playing. Thanks. Stephen did donald trump say or not say, i went to an ivy league school. Im very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words . Trump or false . False. Stephen it is trump. laughter oh stephen sorry. I waitin for the end stephen thank you so much stephen for playing. Have you been a trump delegate from the very beginning . No. Stephen i want somebody to win, i got prizes here. We got prizes. Trump or false, i have great kids. Theyre super people. Smart, attractive, smell good. I won the kid lottery . Trump or false . False. Stephen false, he did not say it. Yeah stephen what do we have . We have baby shoes. Stephen trump or false it doesnt really matter what the media write as long as youve got a young and beautiful piece of ass . I dont think he said that. Stephen trump. He said it . Oh no. Stephen come on. Stephen he did. He said it. Im not making this stuff up, legally i cant. Im on television. Hey man trump or false okay. I can dunk a basketball. Very few people know that, but it is absolutely true . Ill say true. Stephen false. He cannot dunk a basketball, im so sorry but you know what i know the feeling because it seems like he can do anything. And i really believe that he can dunk a basketball. He may not be black, he may but he can dunk stephen hes d stephen hes deeply tan though. The g. O. P. Is going to make you . Trump, trump. Mike pence is going to make you . Trump, trump. Trump or false, okay. I named my dog megyn kelly cause shes stupid and bad at her job. Thats has to be false. Stephen it is false. Congratulations. Thank you stephen congratulations. All right, what do we got here . A box oh, ho, ho. Stephen i got you a box of trojans. laughter there you go. Have a have a great week. Thank you for playing. Trump or false cheers and applause . Stephen well be right back with a president of the unitied states. Stick around. Yeah, yeah. Back with a president of the unitied states. Stick around. Yeah, yeah. Unitied states. Plants need planting eaves arent going to rake themselves vo nationwide is different. Hon, did you call nationwide to check on our claim . vo we put members first. Actually, they called me. Nationwide is the exclusive Insurance Partner of plenti. And who doesntb then seize the day already. Crabfest is back at red lobster with so many kinds of crab and the most crab dishes of the year. So dive into whatever floats your crabloving boat. Like crab lovers dream. Crack open tender snow and king crab legs, and twirl creamy crab alfredo. Or try the new alaska bairdi crab dinner. 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Maybe he could actually just have your job because if we put him on tv as president , he might not know the difference. You know, i think maybe we could pull that off, except im not willing to give up my job. My job is too much have. Donald cannot have it. Stephen you do have a good job. The cast would not be happy about that. Stephen also, you take off your shirt a lot on scandal. And im not sure while were at it, there you go. Is there a rule in shonda rhymes created this show, is there a rule in shondaland that the men take off their clothes and the the women dont. The rule exactly as quoted to me is in shondaland the women can do whatever they want and the boys have to take off their clothes when shonda tells them too to. cheers and applause . Stephen looking at this picture right here, how old are you . How old am i . Jon how old are you. 56. Stephen you go to hell. Im 52 and i wont take off my shoes in public. If you feel an urge ta take off your shirt at any point during this interview, please dont let us stop you. cheers and applause i will let you know. Stephen okay. You act on this show, but you also direct on this show. And again, there is a fair amount of steamy stuff on the show. Have i actually directed my own steamy stuff which is really weird. Stephen you directed yourself in a love scene. Yeah, actually i think it was the First Episode i ever directed. I had this big love scene with kerry washington, this really important reunion between the two characters. And it was it was really awkward to talk kerry through how we were going to have sex. I mean just imagine imagine that in real life. Like okay, heres how its going to go, you okay with that, you comfortable. Here is what i will do and sometimes you have to say im sorry, we have to do that again. Stephen well, not everybody can do it again, tony. Well laughter thats true, stephen. Stephen especially at your age, tony. Thats very impressive. I mean i mean do you ever like in the middle go lets mix it up a little bit. Maybe its the guys birthday. Lets make it a little crazier. How does she take that . Because then youre both in the scene and out of the scene at the same time. Yeah. She generally takes it well. Shes very laughter move on. Stephen okay, all right. I got one other, one other picture here. This is not quite as this you and Hillary Clinton. Thats right, uhhuh, right. applause . Stephen you are officially, are you known, have i been told that you are a surrogate for Hillary Clinton. Right. Stephen what does that mean and is it painful . How do you become a surrogate. It means im a fake Hillary Clinton. Stephen so you Say Something and people go oh, tony goldwyn said it, he is the surrogate of Hillary Clinton, if you Say Something bad, shes in trouble. But i dont say bad things. I say nice things. Stephen are you sur gating right now. I will surrogate right now. Stephen surrogate. I am going to surrogated. I go and i talk about Hillary Clinton and why i support her. And why i think feel very strngly that she should be the next president of the united states. Stephen okay. cheers and applause honestly what i do is i just talk to people about why i feel that way. And tell her story because she gets kind of a bad rap from the Republican Party, if you have been listening. And i know you have. Stephen sure. The venom has been speuing. I kind of am telling the real story, if you actually do your homework and look at what the woman has accomplished in the past 40 years. Stephen but because you are a surrogate, can i trust what you are saying, because youre now in your surrogate mode, not your tony goldwyn mode. You know what i mean, because when i see a surrogate on a news show i go that is a surrogate for hillary. Of course hes going to say that. Yeah, well. Stephen do you say anything negative about Hillary Clinton to prove that you are your own man. Im not my own man. What can i tell you. Stephen let me ask you one other question. This photo, did it in the next frame was it anything like this photo right here . laughter i know this is shondaland, this is shondaland, what are the rules in hillary cland . In hillaryland tony must keep his clothes on is. Stephen okay, that is what surrogates do. We do it would not go well if i did that. I probably wouldnt well just leave that one right there, okay . Stephen well, thank you so much for being here, good luck surrogating for Hillary Clinton. Good luck with the whole clothes thing. I will try to keep them on suz good luck with all the crazy things that happen in shondaland. Well be watching. Thank you. Well be right back with mark cuban. applause . applause . The new 2017 ford fusion is here. Its the beauty of a wellmade choice. Wejust how wet and sticky your current gel antiperspirant is. Now, were going to show you how degree dry spray is different. Degree dry spray. Degree. It wont let you down. Stephen welcome back, everybody. Thank you wyclef. Thank you, jon. My next guest tonight is a billionaire with a b, who owns the Dallas Mavericks and stars on shark tank. Please welcome mark cuban. applause good to see you. Good to be back. Stephen you have already expressed some of your opinions about donald trump here tonight. But i want to point something out to you, my friend. In july of 2015 you said quote, trump is probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long time. I dont care what his actual positions are, but last night on twitter you officially joined the never trump club. What changed for you . What changed for you . Why was it the best thing to happen to politics and now hes the never trump. At the beginning he was a business person and i wanted to see a change from the traditional politician. But then he went and opened his mouth. You know. I mean he had a really good chance to be different and really have a chance to change things am but he doesnt do the work. Hes lazy. Stephen now youre a billionaire. Youre a billionaire, hes a billionaire. In the billionaire world, whats the take on donald trump . Like when you guys all get together to be billionaires together, like how do you guys treat him . Well, in the meeting we voted him out. Stephen he doesnt get to come to the meetings any more . No meetings. We literally changed the secret handshake. Stephen can you teach it to me a little later . laughter i dont like sounds like were not shaking hands. laughter where do the billionaires meet, by the way . Is it like at the private jet, like, hangar, is that where you guys hang . Whoever has the biggest jet at the time or gets a new jet, we will just fly around. Stephen and show it to people. You got to whip it out and show your jet. Stephen hes a billionaire. You know, people say and not really a billionaire. What do you think . Do you think hes really a billionaire or not a billionaire . Who knows how much debt he has. But i will give himmed credit. Hes a billionaire, fine. More power to him, you know. Stephen hes a billionaire, fine. Who cares, right . Who cares. Stephen that seems like a lot of money to you, you are a billionaire. More power to you. Stephen you are a billionaire. You have got opinions. Why dont you run for president . What do you think . cheers and applause . Stephen have you ever thought about it. Yeah, absolutely. Have i thought about it. Stephen any other office like senator. No, no,. Stephen straight to the top. Straight to the top. But i just dont want to put my family through it my sixier old, i talk about it with my family, my six year old jake loves the idea but its a lot of scrutiny and my kids are young. I want to spend time with them. Typically i just dislike politics. But this year its such a mess and with trump getting so involved, i was asked. I was asked by a couple of senators to start a third party run. But if i had done that, then the way the Electoral College works, if i would have won any states, it would have gone to the Republican Congress and then they would have voted for trump. So it would have been a mistake. Stephen okay. So you went to the university of indiana. Yup. Stephen do you still have friends back in indiana. Absolutely. Stephen what do they say about pence . Any good things to say about him . About pence . laughter . Stephen a reasonable question . Its a reasonable question. The next time im drinking in bloomington, indiana, i will ask them about mike pence. But the next time will be the first time. Stephen all right, so now on shark tank you guys grill pretty hard the people who are proposing their ideas. Yeah, we do. Stephen you do a lot of research and everything. If someone was coming to you and you are deciding who gets to run for president , what questions would you ask candidates. Like how would you vet them . One, i would want to talk to people hes done business with. So if you notice with trump, in the whole convention thing, none of his Business Partners are coming forward. Theyre not coming forward to speak. Theyre not coming forward in the media to say good things about him. Theyre not coming forward to give him money. So that is one red check mark. So i would find out about that. I would talk to different people hes done hes done projects for, right . To find out what was their experience. Stephen have you ever done business with him . One time. I had give and take with him. But we did an mma project about 2009, i think, just a little deal. But nothing of any consequence. Stephen would you do business with him again, billionaire to billionaire. Yeah, i mean, as long as he does what i tell him to do, im fine with it. Stephen mark, thank you so much for being here. Mark cuban, everybody. Well be right back with our friends lewis black. 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But also here, with a rewards credit card, to help life go right. State farm. Stephen welcome back. Everybody. My next guest tonight has been complain being political conventions since 19 the 6. Please welcome back our beautiful friend lewis black. applause . Good to see you again, my friend. Good to be here. Stephen first question, i have to ask, are you scrubbing up for surgery or what is going on here, my friend. Well, i live in the neighborhood. Stephen yeah. You said watch the convention and then come on down and talk about it. Stephen sure. I dont wear a suit when im at home. I dont dress up to watch those idiots i i put on my pajamas. Stephen yes. Normally, but since ive got to work, normally, especially when im watching the conventions, i like to get a more feen drip. I go to my couch and let it drip over me. Sometimes when i get really angry i like to tear off my clothes, run around naked and scream like a banshee. Stephen you might fit in at the convention tonight. Because it was a little crazy. It was crazy, not crazy enough, but it was crazy. Stephen are you a fan, people got very angry, and you are an angry man. Would it appeal to you all. Would you have liked to be in the mosh pit of the convention tontd . I would rather be in a latwrittene. Stephen okay. You know, actually, seriously, pick picking up those bars that make it smell nice. Oh, stop whining stephen okay, lewis, are you excited . Were you excited about any of the candidate this year . Did you see any of ted cruzs speech because he wouldnt endorse trump. Ted cruz, i stopped listening to ted. In was but i listened tonight because of you but i stopped listening. Stephen youre welcome. I stopped listening to him during the de the phil buster he said, you know, he started quoting from reading green eggs and ham. Stephen sure, yeah. And that was when i made the decision i would not listen to him again unless he was wearing aluminum foil on his head. Stephen would you listen to him in a boat . Would you listen to him with a goat . Now these two candidates right now, you get angry at politicians. But everybody is angry at the candidate this year. Its kind of been a bonus round here because these are statisticically the two least popular candidates we have ever had for president of the united states. How did we get here, my friend . Its a social experiment. We are making the attempt, you know, weve done it with people that we like. And it hasnt worked out. So lets just, if we pick people that we really dont like, maybe it will work that way. Stephen uhhuh. Cuz thats so far, democracy is great but show it is just not working. Stephen well, maybe this. Maybe this. Maybe they both get to be president , but like the people without dont like hillary, she has to be their president and the people without dont like donald, he has to be their president and it makes us behave. Because weve been punished by getting the people we dont want. Thats an interesting concept. I think what we should do is tie them together. Stephen like into one person. Thats it. Just tied up all day. And thats the way they got to function and deal with the presidency. Because they dont what we have now is donald, crank, hes a crank versus hillary who is cranky. Its crank versus cranky. Its not good. I cant we have to stop these conventions. They have to stop. Four days of a what is a pep rally i never liked pep rallies. Did you ever like pep rally sms. Stephen i wasnt on the pep squad. Well, no one should be on the pep squad. You dont yell before they play. You yell when they play. Thats what you do. Yelling for politicians, what, what is the matter with you you yell, thats like a pep rally for a bowling team. laughter . Stephen i will stay over here for awhile. Im sorry. Stephen no, its all right, its all right. Just im getting slightly singed by the radiation youre giving off right now. Now you have a show coming up this fall called black to the future on broadway on mondays at the marquee theater. What are you doing with it. Starting september 12th. And im going to basically go through the entire election cycle. Stephen youre going to live it again . I want to show exactly how we got to here. Stephen are you go totion wear this . I will wear something more i will wear a suit with a tie. And you know why . The same reason those schmuks do. In order to present the idea, if you wear a tie as you well know, people think wow, this person knows what theyre doing. Stephen and youre ready at a moments notice to standing el yourself to death. Exactly. Stephen lewis, thank you so much for being here. Black to the future is coming to broadway this fall. Lewis black, everybody. Hes going to be all right. Well be right back. ,,,,,, stephen tasks it for the late show. 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