Done announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert tonight, will smith; anna kendrick; and the big furry hat. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, its the best in late show retrospectacular endof year wrapupabration cheers and applause stephen hey, everybody. Thank you so much. Hey everybody, welcome to the late show. So glad youre here. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. cheers and applause its lovely to be back. We havent seen you guys for a week. I hope you guys everybody have a good thanksgiving . cheers and applause i did, too. I had a fantastic jon, you were there. Jon yeah, that was great. Stephen fantastic, heres something i discovered this thanksgiving. I discovered if you bury your face in the pecan pie, it absorbs your screams. laughter and the best part is, after you its true after you put your face in it, you get to have the whole pie. laughter you just keep shoveling it in there, and if you keep the pie in your mouth, you dont have time to yell at rick. Jon hey, i remember that. Stephen so, anyway, whats happening, guys . Seriously, what the hell is going on . laughter i havent been watching the news much, the last week, and i just kind of dipped my wick back in it last night, and i still dont know what to make of our president elect. Yeah, its hard to know what hes doing. And heres one of the reasons the last time donald trump held a News Conference was july 27. Remember those days . laughter the conventions were in full swing, rihanna was dancing with drake and into our hearts. laughter mike and dave had not yet found wedding dates. But heres the thing donald trump, even though he is now the president elect, is still not letting reporters follow him. Trump is ditching the White House Press corps like theyre paparazzi. Journalists have to trick their way into reporting on the man whos going to have the Nuclear Launch codes. Right now, in a new york restaurant not far from here, in fact president elect trump is having dinner with mitt romney. How did you get into the restaurant . We had gotten a tip, anderson, before this dinner that it was possible that they could be here. So, like any enterprising reporter, we decided to go ahead and make a reservation. laughter stephen yes, its all about reservations. And i have a lot of them. laughter trump and romney last night were dining at a fourstar french restaurant called jeangeorges. Sounds fancy, but jeangeorges could be french for waffle house. laughter i dont know, i dont speak french. And they were joined at dinner by reince priebus, who is trumps chief of staff and not, as you may think, an item on the menu. laughter would you care to start with some priebus . It has been lightly reinced. laughter the billionaire of the people ordered young garlic soup with thyme and sauteed frogs legs. I thought he said he was going to drain the swamp, not eat its contents. cheers and applause now, heres the thing jon easy being green, baby. Stephen sound good, though, sounds good. Jon thats right. Stephen heres the thing mitt romney at dinner with trump. No. laughter i know mitt is up for secretary of state, but i also know what mitt said during the campaign. Donald trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. Hes playing the members of the American Public for suckers. He gets a free ride to the white house, and all we get is a lousy hat. Stephen yes, all we get is a lousy hat, and the young garlic soup and the frogs legs. laughter i bet those frogs legs taste a little bit like trumps bleep . Jon whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa cheers and applause stephen now, did, did cheers and applause did trump enjoy this public display of his most prominent republican critic bending the knee . I dont know. Lets just check out the photo of trump at the dinner. laughter yeah, i think he did. Im glad they shot that from the waist up. Because he seems very happy. Now, some people think in this photo trump looks like the devil here. I think he looks like the guy who fired the devil one week before christmas. You cant fire me one week before the holidays. Youre a monster. What about my son damien . You know he has asthma. He was counting on that trip to harpy potter world. Thats my devil. So, trump looks like hes feasting on baby souls in that photo, but lets take another look. What about romney . Hows he look . laughter oh oh, mitt i know he ordered the frog, but it looks like hes eating crow. laughter applause i know, this is how cheers and applause this is kind of how i feel all the time. That face i find myself making that face a lot since the laughter whats happening . Whats happening . Whats happening . I dont know whats happening. laughter i dont know how much were going to keep on this for broadcast, but most of i think were off the air at this point, arent we . laughter all right. You know what i dont necessarily understand . Have you guys heard about the recount going on in wisconsin . For those of you who havent heard, jill stein, the green partys president ial candidate and grandmas new roommate, is laughter seeking a recount in wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania. But shes not looking to change the results. Stein explicitly says on her website our effort to recount votes is not intended to help hillary clinton. Its all summed up in her Campaign Slogan jill stein im not helping. laughter its honest. You know what else isnt helping . Donald trumps tweets. Hes gotten his phone back, evidently, and he apparently has a lot of free time. Whats going to happen now . Is this how we learn about things from the president . Are we just going to have a tweet of the union . Strong. laughter trump tweeted plenty o the craycray this past week. But the craziest was this gem stephen now, when asked for proof that there were millions of illegal votes, trump said he couldnt provide it because his millions of dogs ate it. laughs and, yesterday, trump took more time off from setting up again, the government of the United States to tweet this stephen okay, first of all, those arent equivalent things. Loss of citizenshipyear in jail. Thats like your dad saying johnny, you took the car without permission. So youre either grounded for a month or youre castrated. You choose. laughter no, no. Thats it snip, snip. Snip, snip. And it looked like trump brought up the flag burning out of nowhere. Until someone noticed that fox and friends did a segment on flag burning just before trumps tweet. So, theres a reasonable chance the president elect is just firing off tweets about the last thing he saw on tv. laughter which explains trumps other tweet, laughter cheers and applause stephen oh, you know what . Jon i remember that. I saw that one, too. I saw that one, too. Stephen the thing is, no matter how you feel about flag burning and for the record im not a fan i agree that the American Flag should not be disrespected. It is a sacred symbol that should be honored, whether it be on paper plates or napkins or banana hammocks. laughter weve got a great show for you tonight, so stick around cheers and applause as soon as i became a parent i changed as a person, drastically. I tried hard to quit smoking. But when we brought our daughter home that was it. Now i have nicoderm cq. The nicoderm cq patch with unique extended t thing that ever happened to me. Can you say thanks nicoderm cq . Every great why needs a great how. 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My first guest tonight is an international superstar, and it gives me great pleasure to say, please welcome will smith cheers and applaus cheers and applause thats a good band. Hey cheers and applause let me go kiss that lady. Im going to go kiss that lady. cheers and applause cheers and applause oh, man. Hey oh, man whooo cheers and applause no, i was watching i was watching in the back when the at the top of the show . Whats your name, miss . Debbie. Debbie. How you doing, debbie . cheers stephen thats all we have time for. Thank you so much, will. Its always a pleasure, always a pleasure. Its great to have you on. You know thats a real superstar, a guy who can take his time with the audience like that. Not everybody can do that. That is truly a skill what you just did. Oh, man, i cut that down. laughter that was the short version. I didnt want to mess your time up, you know. Stephen the first time i met you was in 2008. You were on the old show. Yup. Stephen 3,000 people ive interviewed. Youre the only person who ever just came straight into the rewrite room and came over and said, hi, im will smith. Im very happy to be here. I thought, i think this guy is running for president of my show tonight. laughter obama was running that year i know, yeah. Stephen and you said maybe you should be the first black president. cheers and applause yeah, i missed it. I missed it, though. No, i was thinking about it. Eight years. Thats a hard job, man. laughter stephen yeah, yeah, it is, it is, yeah. Eight years ago, he looked like you look now. Yeah, right, exactly exactly. I was like, man applause no, that stephen you ever think about it . Because people would vote for you . Youd vote for him, wouldnt you . cheers and applause debbie would. Debbie would for sure. Stephen you have got to get the debbies. Does politics hold any interest for you . You know, i definitely have had the itching, you know. Ive had you know, i have lots of views and ideas and sometimes i hear people say things on television, and i just want to run against them. laughter stephen run straight at them . Just straight at them and knock them over. But, you know, its its something i think its not where my greatest gifts are, you know. But i stephen like politics and yeah, it really is. It really is. Stephen because you have to hold the audiences attention. And theres good actors and bad actors in the same way. Ive definitely thought about it. My wife has said on numerous occasions, hell no. laughter stephen is that a direct quote . Yes, its a direct quote. Stephen let me write that down, hell no. Im not sure what she means by that, but that is what she said. Stephen you know what might be the next best thing . You, i think, would do a great job playing the role of barack obama. cheers and applause yeah, see, that might be good. That might be good. Stephen that might be fun. Do you have like have you worked on your obama . Because you guys both have swagger . Yeah, swagger. Weve talked about it a couple of times. Stephen you and obama have talked about it . Yeah, weve talked about it. Stephen hold on. Yeah, me and b was talking about it the other day, you know. Stephen like you do. You know, we was just chatting. But we talked about we talked about it a c he said the one thing what is for sure, i have the ears to play him. laughter yeah. Stephen thats true, yes. I think that is stephen the man does not need the n. S. A. He can hear what everybody is saying all the time. laughter after eight years of the barack Obama Presidency, there was all this sort of hope that we were in a sort of a or talk at least about, that we were moving into a postracial society. What do you think of Race Relations, given the tension now in the United States after eight years of the Obama Presidency . You know, its interesting. I always look at these things in terms of a marriage, you know. So i ive done my 10,000 hours of marriage counseling, right . So, you know, jada and i have worked really hard to develop a successful relationship. So i always look at things in terms of relationships. So when i think about Race Relations in this country now, theres a thing that happens before things are cleaned up. Theres a darkness before the dawn that is always difficult, you know. applause thank you, thank you very much. Stephen so now so, you know, when i hear people when i hear people say, its worse than its ever been, i really disagree completely. Its clearly not worse than it was in the 60s, you know. laughter and its certainly not as bad as it was in the 1860s. laughter right . You know. So stephen sort of like a doctor has to go open the abscess to drain the wound. Youve got to see whats going on . We are talking about race in this country more clearly and openly than we have almost ever in the history of this country. Its on the table. applause you know. Stephen because we have a history of sort of ignoring problems until you cant anymore. Ignoring it, yeah, i think racism is not gettinrs its getting filmed, you know, you know. So i think i think that stephen the revolution may not be televised but its being tweeted. Its being tweeted, for sure. You know, so, i really think this darkness, as bad as it is and as difficult as it is, the problems are on the table, you know. So i i view that in same way as jada and i had to work through things in our marriage. When the truth comes out, when it gets on the table and you have to confront whats real, it sucks. You know . Stephen sometimes one of the two people says, oh, hell no. Oh, hell no. Oh, hell no. If you think youre going to be doing that in this relationship, youve got another think coming. You know. No, but i do view it as a difficult time, but i think i think its the problems on the table. And i think theres an opportunity more than ever for a level of understanding that weve never had before, you know. Stephen that i stephen weve got to take a little break here. Well be right back with more will smith. Stick around. cheers and applause s oh, you smell the same. Meet my wife and my kids. Oh you guys are so goodlooking. And impeccably dressed. Thanks. Its all old navy. You sending off some last minute gifts . I miss us. You know . You should go to old navy. The entire store is up to 75 off right now. Amazing idea. Okay, i think ill go there. Get out of here. I dont know what that is. Im just scratching my eyes. An ovenbaked digiorno . Or waiting for delivery . Did you have that beard when we ordered . A hot, freshbaked crust . Or . Did we order extra soggy . Dont settle for delivery. Rise to the occasion. Its not delivery. Its digiorno. What is it . 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Ask your gastroenterologist about humira. With humira, control is possible. cheers and applause stephen welcome back, everybody. Were here with will smith. Now cheers and applause yeah stephen you people at home, you you cant believe how good he just made these people feel. Check it out online. Im sure well put it up some place. Now, i actually had one other question about suicide squad. Yes . Stephen this is great ensemble of big stars, each playing these sort of super villains. And we had Margot Robbie on here, who plays harley quinn. Yeah, shes fantastic. Stephen and she said she has her own tattoo gun, like yes, yes. Stephen and that she was tattooing the word squad on all of you all. Yeah, not all of us. laughter stephen did you not get the squad tattoo . See, heres the thing. See i try i try to keep myself young and in shape and, you know, this cast is a the lot of, you know, 20yearolds. Right . And the thing about a 40year old hanging with a 20yearold is you realize really quick youre not a 20yearold. laughter you know. Stephen you look pretty good. Pretty good shape, man. So she comes in, you know, with her stephen with the needle. Her full 20yearold glory and a tattoo gun, hey, everybody lets give each other tattoos. No. laughter applause stephen not even like not even like in, like, a hidden place or anything like that . No, just no. No. laughter so she started giving everybody tattoos, and then i am easily influenced. So i didnt get one, but i gave a really bad one. laughter stephen you used it and gave somebody else yeah, i gave somebody a really bad, really bad tattoo. Joel kenneman, he plays lieutenant flagg. And he was like, come on. Tattoo tattoo tattoo and i was like, yeah and i was like, oh tragedy. laughs stephen so you so you showed some reserve there. Yeah, no, i mean, i didnt do it, but its like he has one for the rest of his life. Stephen for you, like you for me, i was like nah im good. Im 40. Stephen you put a lot of thought into the things you do. You dont go off halfcocked. No, no, i like to keep it somewhat cerebral. Stephen i believe that. I believe that, bec i oh, hell yeah. laughter stephen well, i thought that about you. I thought you were deep. Its funny that you ask me that kind of question because im so deep laughter stephen im deep, too. Thats why i ask questions about whether somebodys deep. Oh thats deep. laughter stephen and, you know, these people may know, whenever i have a guest who is as deep as you are and as deep as i am, i like to invite them to contemplate the mysteries of the universe with me in a segment we call Big Questions with even bigger stars. cheers and applause stephen wow, what a beautiful night. Yeah. Stephen look at that sky. Lots of stars and stuff. Stephen yeah. I feel really close to you right now, will. laughter laughs laughter stephen hmmm. You know, stephen . Stephen yeah, will . How do you want to be thought of by your greatgreat grandchildren . Stephen oh, i think id like them to think of me as still being alive. laughter yea