Stephen youre wearing lavender and Peach Blossom perfume. No, sir. I think thats the glade plugin youre smelling. laughter stephen ah, yes, freshness all day. Still hunting President Trump . Do you know him . Stephen i do. We were golfing buddies once. We ate our caddy, turned him into a taco bowl with a nice diet coke. Pfpfpfpfpfpf. laughter doctor, what can you tell me about the president . Stephen you already have the answers. What is his nature . What does he do, this man you seek . Hes hes an idiot who says the first thing that comes to mind. Stephen no, that is incidental. Quid pro quo, clarice. Tell me your worst memory of the election. One night, on a tuesday donald trump won the presidency, and then i heard a strange noise. It sounded like a scream, like some kind of screaming. Stephen what did you do . I crept into the living room. The tv was on. I was so scared. So scared. Msnbc, the anchors, they were crying. They were crying. Stephen thank you, clarice. Now its your turn, doctor, quid pro quo. Stephen what evidence do you have on donald trump so far . Well, the 12 indictments against manafort and gates, sir. Flynn pleading guilty. Kremlin intermediaries reaching out to the trump campaign. Unreported meetings with the russian ambassador. The meeting between donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer. The messages between donald trump, jr. And wikileaks. Trump calling on russia to find clintons missing emails, sir. Stephen wait, what . Seriously, you have all that already . What do you need me for . I want to come in there with you. laughter stephen you know i eat people, right . Its kind of my thing. Yeah, but it seems safer in there than it does out here. laughter stephen very well. Can i eat your kidney . I got two. I dont see why not. Stephen okay, great, ill fire up the grill its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Plus, stephen welcomes jodie foster with a special appearance by tom hanks and run the jewels. 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 hey cheers and applause thank you very much. Thank you hey, everybody please, youre very kind. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause very nice, very nice group of people. Happy friday, everybody. Doesnt it feel great . cheers and applause getting so close. Getting close to the end of the year, and everybodys working on their resolutions. Mine is for america to knuckle down and maybe pick our own president next time. cheers and applause donald trump donald trump donald trump continues to deny any russian interference in the 2016 election. Now, the Washington Post published a massive article yesterday, and we learned that in january trumps advisers begged him to accept the findings of the Intelligence Community about russian interference. As one aide remembers, this was part of the normalization process. There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president. Good luck laughter if you can get him to accept that russia hacked the election, see if you can get him to accept who won the civil war. laughter jon oh oh cheers and applause stephen im not sure. Im not sure. But trump is far from standard. I mean, hes one of a kind. Though, i will say, eric does look kind of like a failed clone. laughter maybe someone spilled a little bleach in the petri dish or something. Im not sure. After trump was told his own cabinet members had already backed the Intelligence Report trump shot back, so what . Admitting that the kremlin had hacked Democratic Party emails he said, was a trap. And Mitch Mcconnell agreed. Its a trap laughter stephen and applause yeah. Got to. Got to. He looks good i got to say, he looks good. Jon he looks good. Stephen i dont know. He got a tan somewhere along the line. And nearly a year into his presidency, trump has never convened a cabinetlevel meeting on russian interference or what to do about it though, he and Michael Flynn did once get together to shop for thank you cards. Ive got one right here. Thank you for putin me in office. And cheers and applause thats nice. Thats very nice. The post article also claims that privately, Vladimir Putin is thrilled. For one, its estimated that the whole plan cost less than 500,000 to execute. That is nothing to him. Putin is reportedly the richest man in the world. He spends more than that on chest wax and nipple sharpeners. laughter of course he can kill you with his nipple. Dont dont dont think thats not true. Of course, there may be a reason trump doesnt care about preserving our democracy. Its that he doesnt know how to vote. You see, last month in new york, here in the city, we had an election for mayor, and the president voted absentee, but his ballot did not count because he got his own birthday wrong. laughter i tell you, i cant remember when i was born. I demand that i release my long form birth certificate. I think i was born in kenya. Thats what im hearing. People are telling me. Its got to be. cheers and applause i i got i dont i i no idea if that has anything to do with that. Now, heres the thing trump was born on june 14, 1946, but his ballot application lists his birth month as july. So he made himself a full month younger. Watch out, ladies laughter seriously, watch out. Hes a monster. laughter dont go near him. Hell grab you. cheers and applause but heres the crazy thing trump isnt the only member of his family who doesnt know how to vote because melania, ivanka, and jareds Mayoral Election votes also did not count melania incorrectly wrote in her address. Under county, the first lady wrote in u. S. A. Rather than new york. Then she failed to sign the inner envelope not to mention what she put on the outer envelope. laughter applause its like those notes you get in chinese toys. And ivanka did not mail her ballot until election day. Im sure theyll get it in time, because i dont know how mail works. laughter i made no attempt to do an impression of her, none at all. laughter as for jared kushner, he failed to even bother to send his in. Its too bad. It might have been his last chance, because i dont think they let you vote from prison. cheers and applause jon cold blooded stephen do they . I dont think they do. Jon i dont think they do. Stephen of course, the holidays are upon us, ladies and gentlemen, and one of my favorite parts is christmas movies, whether its miracle on 34th street, or a christmas story, or Martin Scorseses shutter island. laughter they never explicitly say it doesnt take place during christmas. laughter and in recent years, theres been a slew of new christmas cinema. Im talking about the romantic tv movies put out by lifetime and hallmark with titles like hitched for the holidays, and 12 dates of christmas, a princess for christmas, a bride for christmas, and a boyfriend for christmas. If you watch them all in a row you might need a lobotomy for christmas. laughter but you have got to be careful with your binge because netflix had a viral tweet about their own film, writing, to the 53 people whove watched a christmas prince every day for the past 18 days who hurt you . laughter they they thats that is thats funny because they watch everything we do. But i mean, i get it. It would be crazy for someone to watch a christmas prince every day. I mean, how many times do you need to see the story of amber a careeroriented Young Journalist who travels to the european nation of aldovia and goes undercover as a tutor for the royal familys young daughter, only to find herself falling in love with the misunderstood and sensitive prince who she loves for who he is, unlike that ambitious lady sofia. And, oh, my god, its makeover time and amber looks so gorgeous in her ball gown, but of course shes wearing sneakers underneath because shes still a little bit rock n roll. And then the christmas prince finds out shes really a journalist, and she gets caught up in aldovias bitter succession scandal, which is the story of the century, but she cant use the christmas prince to further her career, to further her career, and its, like, will she choose her job, or the christmas prince, or can she have it all . cheers and applause my heart is racing. You cant youd have to be crazy to be obsessed with that. laughter but the netflix tweet went viral, so its only a matter of time before other Big Companies start using our information to make fun of us. Pretty soon, well get a tweet from amazon that says, dave johnson of eau claire, wisconsin, just ordered a subpar leaf blower. What a dingus. laughter and this ad from google home hey, brian, we only recorded you and beth having sex once this month. Everything okay . laughter weve got a great show for you tonight. Jodie foster is here. cheers and applause and we have a special, never beforeseen comedy bit with mr. Tom hanks. Plus, the premiere of my Christmas Song with run the jewels. Stick around try the deoderant saving millions of clothes. Degree ultraclear black white. No yellow stains on white clothes. No white marks on black clothes. It wont let you down. Dayo, dayyyyyoooo. Wake up early, im 85 and i wanna go home just got a job as a lifeguard in savannah im 85 and i wanna go home dj nana 85 and i wanna go trade, kiddo. Hows your cafe au lait . Oh, its actually. Sfx short balloon squeal its ver. Sfx balloon squeals goodbye oof, that milk in your coffee was messing with you, wasnt it . Try lactaid, its real milk, without that annoy good right . Yeah. Lactaid. The milk that doesnt mess with you. cheers and applause everybody ladies and gentlemen, happy friday. Tonight is a twotime Academy Awardwinning actress and captivating audiences for over five decades. Please welcome jodie foster. cheers and applause phen they are a lovely audience. Not like some of those other is the best audience in television right here. cheers and applause wow. Stephen thanks for being here. Its lovely to meet you. U all the time. Stephen oh, thank you very much. Im a i watch most of it on my phone. Stephen sure, sure. Thats what people do these days. Cause its smaller and looks like i lost weight. laughter weve been watching you in the public eye since you were the i was at three. Stephen at three years old. I was. In the 60s and there you know, the advertisement with the little girl i just in case you were wondering. Stephen all right. Im just evision baby. Okay, well, could have gotten it. laughter you know, in various forms on various media for 50 years. The or e best got to know you was silence of the cheers and applause stephen when is the last time you w ah, i guess it was a couple of years ago. My sons hadnt seen it. They w celebration, and they they had a 35millimeter print in a saw it in the real theater. Stephen had they not seen it because you didnt want them toovie, or they didnt want to see the movie . They were too young. My older one, i think, ht my little one stephen because its really scary. Er i guess so. Thats what people say. I dont see it. But, yes. Stephen you dont see the scary part . No. Stephen you saw how it was made and you were like, no, i get him in the end. Yeah, its kind of like stephen we all know youre going to get him in the end and we all think its scary, right . Yes its interesting because theres less violence and blood and all that other kind of stuffit still gets you. Stephen Hannibal Lecter does cut a mans face off and wear it as his own face. laughter anthony hopkins, of course, is Hannibal Lecter, a wonderful was he was he intimidating on set . Always sort of in his creepy character . Well, he scar the first part of the movie without him there. So i had never rea table and we were never able to talk and having heard him do a to talk to him again. laughter partition between lecter and clarice. Stephen sure. To his cell block on the very first day, so i never got to talk to him. And we did the very first scene without being able to speak to each and so then i was just was like we never spoke to each other duringwhen you see him now . Well, the last day of fish sandwich which is the part i remember and he said, i said, well, you know, you scared me. laughter stephen why did you scare him . Do you know . I dont know maybe thats a little telling about anthony hopkins. That was one of the things asgrew u south, that accent is spot on. Is it . Ig you must have gotten kudos for that, right . I guess so. I mean, character is a full thing its the little sweater, big hair. That down, little sweater. laughter g movies for over 50 years. Do they still do movies still wow you . Youve been an actor for many years or do you look at the no, im especially wowed by actors. I just i d every time i do a movie as a director and my actors come forward im always just im in awe of what they do, and then i forget that i do that, stephen funny you should say that, because i had a chance to meet just a moment. We talked for mayb and i immediately asked him about how he started off. And he told me about doing the lion in winter which was hise hepburn. And he said the very first day the very first scene, katharine how and she gave him advice about how to work on camera. Do you do that . Who has never been on camera before and say, this is how you i work with people all the time who had never been on camera. And im a terrible person to asknt to juilliard. I feel like i dont have any credentials as an actress. stephen only work. Yeah thats it. I sort of, you know, learned on and i have my own way of doing things. And i you know, sometimes my advice is like, you know, makecause if you stand up for too long, your feet are going to hurt. laughter thats really all i have to contribute. laughter pretty much. Private person, which is a good thing, you know, if youre in the public eye to keep your person l a tiny peek in t whats jodie foster doing for fun . What do i do for fun . I really like football. Im almost embarrassed. Stephen what position do you play . I try not to play. I do you know, i have a bunch of stephen who is your team . Green bay. Stephen okay. Not having a great year. I think thats a little too personal, actually. laughter ally love the cheese heads. I like to wear those. Stephen sure, who doesnt . I like fantasy. I like the fantasy. I like all the alerts in my pocket, and i like strategizing. Lay fantasy football . Yeah. I didnt play this year. Theres a lot going on in politics and can handle. laughter yeah, so i just wanted to have this year football is second and, you know stephen you went to a school where you had to learn frencht school, was that sacred heart . It was lycee francas de los angeles. Stephen okay, thats fancy i do. I have friends who l and my nieces and nephews live there, so i speak french with them. S speaking french unless you run into french people. You know speaking french have you seen translations of your movies into french and gone in french accent i actually dubbed my movies in french most of my life. Stephen you do yousilenchoof the lambs in french . Le silence des agneaux. Y. No, it doesnt really work. Stephen sounds like a delicious dish. laughter ight, we have the silence of the lambs. laughter laughter but so delicious. Um, weve got to take a little break, but well be right back with morounddi are cream conditioners bringing your hair down . Switch to new pantene light as air foam conditioner full of rich prov nutrients. 0 weight. New pantene. Foam conditioner. elevator speaker going down. Oh no. Is. Camp jenkins . Maybe this will my funky place. alexa playing your music. Remember our dance . Yeah, im not peter. Alexa, note to self. Take the stairs next time. Get a free when you buy a moto z2. Available at major carriers. Plaque psoriasis can be relentless. Your plaques are always there at the worst times. 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Introducing part of the google home family. hey, everybody were back with our friend jodie foster. You grew up in the public eye. You grew up in hollywood. There is sort of a public awakening becaus do you see this as a moment that you think can change what the culture is like in movies, making television, and the way women are treated or marginalized or ob well, its an extraordinary moment in history. It really is. Its a watershed moment. The film industry. Of course, its every industry every workplace. Um. I really hate sound bites. Im not good at sound bites. Im somebody who talks for a really long tiurs and hours. Stephen well edit you. So, i havent really wanted to add yet another opinion into the mix because i feel like now we really need people need to id love to hear complexity about it. And cheers and applause i feel like theres stephen what is the complexity . What do you mean differentiation between different well, what now . You know . Whats the next step . Important in the beginning, and certainly to finally hear voicesoving forward and embracing feminism and womens around for a while, but now i really want to hear i want to know, what are we going to do . How are we all what it should be . If you could wave a wand, what would the next step be . Ned om other social Justice Movements its that you cant attack a just be legislation. It cant just be rules. Because somebody gets a rule, a blacks can vote, and theyre couldnt. I dont accept that. I think that theres i think that you have have to have a so, if there was, like, a summit where we all got together and shared all of our stories and were able to, in a really complicated way, talk about the dynamics that weve all grown up with, that the things that made us who we are, that made us men, that made us women, i mean, that would be a good thing. applause ste