In the wake of the last 3 weeks, and your business is poking fun at political candidates, wouldn’t Killary provide more fodder and be infinitely more entertaining than Trump?
Not if you’re this asshole!
Hear ye, hear ye! Stephen Colbert is up to his old tricks, by which we mean Republican rabble-rousing—and not a moment too soon. The Late Show host somehow snuck up to the podium at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Sunday, one day before the convention officially kicks off, to deliver an impromptu speech dressed as Hunger Games emcee Caesar Flickerman—played by Stanley Tucci in the films—before being booted offstage.
Why, exactly, was Colbert dressed in his Capitol finery? Because he had to officially open the “Hungry for Power Games,” which he’s been documenting meticulously on The Late Show for months (always in the same Flickerman getup, naturally).
On the R.N.C. stage, Colbert performed with a straight face—as straight as a face can be when it’s topped with a cobalt wig and bright-blue painted-on eyebrows, at least—before an audience of mostly empty chairs. (Was Clint Eastwood a consulting producer here?) He declared that Donald Trump has “formed an alliance with Indiana governor Mike Pence” before officially announcing that the Games had begun—which is when a security guard appeared to hustle him away from the microphone. “Look, I know I’m not supposed to be up here,” Colbert told the guard. “But neither is Donald Trump.”
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