Wait, where are you going . What are you going to do about all the senseless violence . Im going to toledo. cheers and applause announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight video games. Plus stephen welcomes brian cox, Hannah Gadsby, and comedian shane torres, featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert n cheers and applause theme song playing stephen come on whoo hi there cheers and applause trilling have a seat, everybody. Thank you so much. Welcome one and all to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause piano riff you can feel it. Im glad you guys have got the energy because you can feel it ton street today. Tooth today is a very rough day, so lets start off with something from the smile file. Thanks to trumps trade war with china, the Dow Jones Industrial average lost more than 750 points today. And that was the smile file. laughter because its all downhill from here. laughter ive been watching this show on hbo chernobyl dont tell me how it ends. laughter and in the thing about the Nuclear Reactor blowing up, over and over again in it, a scientist or engineer will tell a politician, hey, weve got a real problem here. The nuclear core is going to meltdown and kill everyone. n but the politicians refuse to believe it because any acknowledgment of failure threatens their position of power, and their power is more important than saving lives. Whats that got to do with anything . Well laughter i think at this point its clear that americas gun culture is melting down, but the republicans in congress would rather maintain their power than save lives. cheers and applause the latest evidence is the two Mass Shootings in less than 24 hours one in el paso, texas, the other in dayton, ohio making four Mass Shootings in america last week alone. 255 in 2019 so far. Now, there are two bipartisan background check bills that havd passed the house but are being blocked by Senate Majority leader and this months centerfold of corruptionco monthly laughter applause mitcha laughter mconnells had the bills since february, but wont take any action. Im sure he has his reasons. Like the 1. 26 million in n. R. A. Contributions. He has received. booing you cant put a price on human life, but it doesnt stop mitch from trying. laughter after every one of these tragedies every time this happens, everybody wants sensible Gun Legislation and nothing happens. Maybe its time for senseless Gun Legislation. laughter maybe turn in your assault weapon and in exchange well give you a giant pork sausage. Okay . cheers and applause that makes no sense. That is senseless. applause give me your gun, you get a giant pork sausage. Its even more falk than your gun and its only going to hurt you. laughter applause piano riff this time its not just guns, its also overt racism. When a reporter asked el pasonative beto orourke if there was anything the president could do about the shootings, he did not hesitate to name the radioactive core of this meltdown. Is there anything in your mind that the president can do now to make this any better . What do you think . Umm, you know the bleep hes been saying. Hes been calling mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. I donk the press, what the bleep . Hold on a second. n you know, its these its these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what hes been doing in this country. Hes not tolerating racism, hes promoting racism. Hes not tolerating violence, hes inciting racism and violence in this country. So, you know, i dont know what kind of question that is. Stephen well said. cheers and applause well said. Refreshing candor. Refreshing candor. Its all well and good to offer thoughts and prayers, but sometimes you need shouts and swears. cheers and applause today, trump put on his president pants and addressed the tragedies in el paso and dayton or tried to may god bless the memory of those who perished in toledo. Stephen okay. All right. Wrong city, but dont worry, sir. Its not like ohios that important in president ial elections. laughter joe biden better hope its not, because last night, he offered sympathy for the tragic events in houston and also in michigan. audience reacts holy toledo. laughter later on in his address from the white house, trump took a strong stand nr in one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy. Stephen i try my best every night, but youre still in office. laughter piano riff cheers and applause so cheering so whos to blame for these shootings . Trump had a, lets say, thought we must stop the glorification of violence in our society. This includes the gruesomee and grisly video games that are now commonplace. Stephen first of all, theres no link between video games and shootings. Every country has video games. But these tragedies only happen here. Secondly, i would love to hear trump try to name a single video game. laughter as trump these violent video games tetrismunch, ghost mario, grand theft pong. laughter then, in his own way, trump tried to heal a nation. Now is the time to set destructive partisanship aside, so destructive, and find the courage to answer hatred with unity, devotion, and love. Stephen as trump yes, we must set aside partisan bickering over who fired up the white nationalists in our country, and come together as one singing to kumbaya send her back, my lord send her back someones different, lord send her back im not racist lord applause not everyone was heeding trumps call to unity. Like cory booker, who heard trumps speech and texted this to his campaign manager, who then tweeted it listening to the president. Such a bull bleep soup of ineffective words. cheers and applause okay,ening i see whats happening here. Okay. I see whats happening here. So beto swears, now everyone jumps on the curse wagon. The next debate is going to be fun. as booker yknow, mr. Vice president , they have a saying in my community youre dipping your spoon in the bull bleep soup and you dont even know the taste of ass croutons cheers and applause piano riff jon is that a saying . I havent heard that one. Stephen trump defended guns on camera, but on twitter, he was more open to compromise republicans and democrats must come together and get strong background checks, perhaps marrying dot, dot, dot, dot dot, dot, dot, dot this legislation with desperately needed Immigration Reform. We must have something good, if not great, come out of these two tragic events as trump and if i know anything about marrying, it is always a tragic event. laughter applause but listen to what hes doing applause listen to what hes trying to do here, gun control and Immigration Reform have nothing to do with each other, and theyre the two hardest things to do in washington, so naturally he wants to combine them. as Trump Congress has not been able to eat fire or levitate. laughter so, they should try to do them both at the same time. laughter might make it easier to levitate with flames shooting out their butts. Trump was able to find at least one person to defend him, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, seen here explaining how tall a pile of lies hes about to spew. laughter mulvaney went on the sunday shows and he pointed out that gun violence has nothing to do with guns. Weve had guns in this country for for hundreds of years. We havent had this until recently and we need to figure out why. Stephen oh, i know why. Its because those guns we had hundreds of years ago were slower and less powerful. Its why, during the revolutionary war, the british soldiers volunteered to wear bright red coats and stand in a Straight Line as colonial british soldier would you mind killing us more quickly . Its nearly tea time and we have to do this all over again in the crimea. laughter jon wow stephen the crimea cheers and applause mulvaneys main argument everyone is to blame except his boss. This is a serious problem. Theres no question about it. But they are sick, sick people. And the president knows that. Again, jon, i dont think its fair to try and lay this at the feet of the president. Stephen its true. You cant lay this at the feet of the president , cause thats where Mick Mulvaney sleeps. laughter piano riff weve got a great show for you tonight. 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We have two wonderful guests tonight. You ever see nanette, Hannah Gadsby . Yeah stephen our first guest tonight, you ever see succession on h. B. O. . Brian cox plays log logan roy ws the father of a murdoch red stone family who has a big media empire. Great show. Its the show on h. B. O. Where there isnt a nuclear meltdown. Its the other one. laughter now, weve all grownni accustomd to the huge turnover in the trump administration. At this point, if the white house was a family, wed all have given up trying to learn moms boyfriends names. Look, youre motorcycle guy number three in my book. If you last longer than two weeks, well talk. laughter 63 of trumps nominees have either had to drop out or had their nominations yanked. A name to the ash heap, trumps pick for director of National Intelligence, texas representative and Steve Carells twin who didnt get enough oxygen coming out, john ratcliffe. laughter on friday, trump abruptly dropped his plan to nominate ratcliffe, after questions about his qualifications and concern over whether he exaggerated his resume. Oh, johnny john, johnny. Oh, johnny, we hardly knew ye because ye lied about who ye were and what ye did. laughter the administration probably learned about ratcliffes lies the same time we did, because as axios put it, the white house appeared to have done no vetting of ratcliffes resume, assuming, perhaps, that if hed been elected to congress, hed been vetted. laughter pro tip voted does not mean vetted. laughter just because people pick something doesnt mean it was good. laughter the movie venom got 29 from critics on rotten tomatoes, but 81 from the audience. You cant trust people to make good decisions. I think that was actually the subtitle of the movie venom. laughter so, just why the hell did trump pick this guy . D apparently, it was ratcliffes defense of trump during the muller hearing. Jim, roll the audition tape nb donald trump is not above the law, hes not. But he damn sure shouldnt be below the law. Which is where volume two of this report puts him. G stephen and the emmy for Outstanding Achievement in shameless president ial butt kissing goes to. Jon oliver he wins everything he wins everything i dont think he deserves this one. He normally deserves it. He didnt deserve this one at all. laughter ÷u but trump wants everyone to know this Dumpster Fire of a nomination is the fault of the press, and this was the plan the whole time. You vet for me. I like when you vet. No, no, you vet. I give a name, i give it out to the press, and you vet for me. A lot of times, you do a very good job. I give out a name to the press and they vet for me. We save a lot of money that way. Stephen as trump the press is supposed to stop my bad decisions. Youre like the nanny to my two yearold. I put everything i find in my mouth, and your job is to make sure i dont choke on an unqualified lego. laughter jon oh, my goodness. piano riff stephen so ratcliffe beautifullp name ratcliffe is out and the white house proudly doesnt vet anyone. So whos next on deck for director of National Intelligence . Aaand im being told trump Just Announced a new nominee. Well be right back with brian cox. T cheers and applause band playing guys, i want you to meet someone. This is jamie. Youre going to be seeing a lot more of him now. Im not calling him dad. Oh, nno. Look, [sighs] i get it. Some new guy comes in helping your mom bundle and save with progressive, but hey, were all in this together. Right, champ . Im getting more nuggets. How about some carrots . You dont want to ruin your dinner. Youre not my dad thats fair. Overstepped. Thats fair. What shes zip lining with little jon . 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Oss oh, yeah. Yep. Yes . To feel like a boss . Thats yes for less. 20 to 60 percent off Specialty Store prices for every room and every budget. At ross. Yes for less. cheers and applause band playing stephen hey, everybody welcome back welcome back to the late show, everybody. My first guest is an Emmy Awardwinner you know from films like manhunter, x2 and zodiac. He currently stars as patriarch logan roy in succession. Please welcome, brian cox now you step up on to the rack. Im going to pull you limb from limb like a pinata and see what falls out. Okay. So you want what . I want the game plan, what the timetable is. Capital structure, end game, what they might accept, what their weak points are. But well start at the start. When did they approach you . Um, when did they approach me . Stephen mmhmm. Did it take long or did you open your legs on the first date . Stephen please welcome brian cox rse band playing stephen nice to have you on. Nice to be on. Stephen thank you for bringing i think you bring a certain dignity, a certain gravidas to every role that you play. Yeah, its all fake. laughter stephen you played some real heavies in your time. You played the guy who made jason bourne in the jason bourne. You played the guy who made wolverine into wolverine. Then you played rupert murdoch. So do you think succession is shakespearean because i know youve done quite a few shakespeare plays. no it has very strong shakespearean elements but its like a chaucer morality tale. Theres sort9 we live in ludicrous times. Stephen sure. And i think that succession is a ludicrous show for ludicrous times. Stephen right. Its the funniest saddest show on right now. Yeah, exactly. Stephen its funny and sad at the same time. And that reflects the state that were in. Stephen because families like this actually do control our media. Thats the problem. They do control it. Theyre getting out of hand, and we demonstrate that in our show. Stephen we had one of your costars nicholas brawn who plays cousin ed, greg the egg last week. Yes. Stephen he seemed a lot like his character. laughter very sweet, very sweet i had real confusion because the first season i used to call him greg, because i got his name wrong, but that was part of the script. The second season, i kept calling him nick, when i should have been calling him greg. And they said, no, brian, its greg, not nick. I said, hes so like the character, i cant tell the difference. laughter stephen please tell me youre nothing like logan roy. Um. laughter applause stephen do you have anything in common with this media mogul . Just contempt. laughter no, no, not really. No, i have nothing in common. Its a complete creation, you know. Stephen i understand that youre from dundee. I am from dundee. Stephen scotland, and so is he. Well, yes, except he wasnt originally. Stephen oh, your character wasnt originally from dundee. No, he was originally÷n from quebec in canada. cheers and applause yes, quebec in canada, and what happened was, it was very funny, what happened was in the ninth episode of the first series, we had already done the pilot, and in the pilot Peter Freedman does my birthday, and he says born in quebec, c