September 22, 2015 - Donald Trump, Ernest Moniz, Raury

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Episode Guide EPISODE NUMBER: Season 1, Episode 11 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)
GUESTS: Donald Trump | Ernest Moniz | Raury
SEGMENTS: Monologue | New York Has Pizza Rat Fever | The Hungry for Power Games: Walkingjay | Donald Trump | Dr. Ernest Moniz | Raury - “Devil’s Whisper”
SUIT REPORT: Blue Suit | White Shirt | Dark Blue Spotted Tie

Hello Hubsters, and welcome to a brand new episode guide! We had another great show last night. We got to see another edition of ‘The Hungry For Power Games’. We also got to see the highly anticipated Donald Trump interview. Many have mixed feelings on how the interview went. How do you think the interview went? Feel free to let us know in the comment section. We also got a great interview with Ernest Moniz, and a wonderful musical performance by Raury. Here is your guide about last night’s show.

Monologue

Stephen ran out to start the show happy, and full of energy like he usually does. The audience gave Stephen the missing part of his balanced breakfast, as they were chanting his name. Stephen started by talking about the Pope, and how the Pope might be a little upset with Stephen, since he forgot to pick him up at the airport. Stephen then apologizes to the Pope, and tells him he will be there to pick him up after the show. Just wait at the Cinnabon your holiness, Stephen will be there soon. Stephen let’s us know that September 23rd is the first day of Fall, according to his ‘Farmer’s Almanac’, and that we still have 23 more minutes to get that beach bod we all wanted for the summer. Stephen let’s us know what why he’s looking forward to Fall. It’s not only the pumpkin spice latte.

  • “ I’m looking forward to the fall the crisp air, the colorful leaves, the shorter days, the longer nights, the bare tree limbs like skeletal arms reaching out to drag you down into the grave… plus pumpkin spice latte, so it balances it out.”

Stephen tells us we will finally have a platform where we will be able to hear about Donald Trump. He also introduces his other guests like Raury, and Ernest Moniz, who not only helped with the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’, but also invented 5 hour energy. Stephen tells his last joke for the monologue, and then we hear that funky music play, and it’s time to go over to the desk.

New York Has Pizza Rat Fever

Stephen let’s us all know the exciting things happening in New York. Let’s see, there’s the Pope arriving, the UN leaders gathering, and of course, we have pizza rat. Pizza rat, was the viral video of a rat carrying a whole slice of pizza down the subway steps. Stephen tells us that this is not surprising to New Yorkers, actually “if a rat doesn’t bring your slice in 30 minutes it’s free”. With the amount of loose Italian food lying around, and urban wildlife, this is not unusual to see in New York. Stephen even told us this isn’t the first time he’s witnessed something like this, and even shows us some examples of other wild life carrying food around. If you visit New York look out for the pasta possum and the calzone pigeon.

The Hungry for Power Games: Walkingjay

Time for the second edition of ‘The Hungry for Power Games’. Before beginning this segment Stephen explains why he’s excited about the 2016 presidential election.

  • “All Americans are effected by the outcome , all of us get to have our say, and nearly all of us are running.”

After showing us the usual picture of all the candidates, Stephen shows us an enlarged Donald Trump picture. Stephen was right, we should have all viewed that in IMAX, because Trump took up of most of the screen.

Stephen then started to talk about the GOP debate, and even told us a drinking game he invented while watching it, it’s called “turn on the debate and drink”. After Stephen took a sip of his “water”, the games began! He assembled the tributes, put on a purple wig, and announced a battle of two candidates that he would like to see, “the one he’s never heard of” vs. “the one he can’t identify”.

Stephen bid farewell to another “tribute” Scott Walker, as he announced he is quitting his campaign. A clip was played of Walker explaining why he was leaving the campaign, apparently it’s because god called him to be a leader in another way. Although Walker explained that a reason he ran was initially because he believed god called on him to do so, Stephen explains that god was just joking with Walker.

  • “ In other words god said : I have chosen you Scott Walker to… sike”

Stephen loves it when god jokes. Stephen explains that Walker left to help the “true conservatives”, they can all get a piece of his resounding less than 0.5% that he had in the polls. Stephen assures us that Walker is leaving in a noble way, by asking other candidates to quit too. Farewell music plays, and we bid goodbye to the fallen, Scott Walker.

Donald Trump

Stephen welcomes Donald Trump to the stage. Trump walks out on the stage as the band plays “Who Got the Money”. Stephen thanks Trump for running for president, saying that “this stuff writes itself”. Stephen asks Trump, if he has been surprised at the response he’s been receiving during his campaign. Trump explains that his response gets better and better, and that his poll ratings increase as well. Stephen then begins to explain that he’s not surprised at the response.

  • “I’m not surprised at all and I’ll tell you why, because especially in the Republican field, because the Republican party has been a big pusher of the idea that money is speech and you’re a 10 billion dollar mouth. You’re their worst nightmare.”

“I’m not surprised at all and I’ll tell you why, because especially in the Republican field, because the Republican party has been a big pusher of the idea that money is speech and you’re a 10 billion dollar mouth. You’re their worst nightmare.”

  • “For years I played an over the top, like conservative, you know character, not as long as you did, but for many years. I was looking back over some of the things you’ve said over the years, and sometimes I couldn’t figure out whether I said them or you said them.”

The two then played a game of ‘Trump or Colbert’. Trump got most of them right, but was little confused on a few of them, such as this one “ It’s freezing and snowing in New York, we need global warming.”, Trump said that. There was also a trick one thrown in there, which was “ The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies”, this was actually said by Charles Manson.

Dr. Ernest Moniz

Stephen welcomes Ernest Moniz to the stage. Stephen asks Moniz a question he forgot to ask Trump.

Colbert: Is that your real hair?
Moniz: Yes it is, it’s in honor of the founding fathers.

Stephen then started to ask Moniz about the nuclear deal. It will stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon, this news made 3 people in the audience clap. Stephen and Moniz then go a little bit into more detail, about what the deal entails.

Colbert: My understanding is that they get warned before you inspect them right? It’s like 22 days, 23 days, something like that. Is it longer than that?
Moniz: There is something called the additional protocol, which in it’s essence means, it’s the key tool for the inspection agency to go to suspicious sites, which have not been announced.
Colbert: If there is a suspicious site do we have to call them ahead of time and say “we’re coming , clean it up.”
Moniz: We call them first and say. Well we don’t call them, the agency calls them , and says “We want to go there in 24 hours.” Now the agency does that for any country today. The trouble is for most countries, for all countries now, except Iran, there is no time limit. They can just roll it out. Here we have now put in an agreement that , that discussion with the country, Iran, can only go for two weeks, and if they haven’t solved it in two weeks, then we have 10 days to provide access.

The two then discuss that it is hard to clean up nuclear particles, mainly because of the radiation. Moniz then talks about the benefits of this deal, and how it is a diplomatic solution that will allow for “stronger unique inspection measures forever.” Stephen then says how many of the candidates running for the presidential election would tear up this deal. Stephen suggests maybe putting the deal on kevlar. Stephen then asks, that since Moniz is a nuclear physicist, isn’t he part of the problem, since they came up with this nuclear stuff. Moniz says that his department is called the ‘Department of Energy’ and they are managing the system, and reducing it, and doing this without testing. Stephen then finishes off the interview by giving Moniz the book Trump signed for him. Moniz wanted a copy of the ‘Iran Deal’ to sign, but Stephen said he would need to get that from the State Department.
Raury – Devil’s Whisper

Raury - “Devil’s Whisper”

Stephen then introduced his musical guest Raury. Raury performed the song ‘Devil’s Whisper’ from his new album ‘All We Need’, that will be released on October 16, 2015. Raury did a fantastic performance, and gave Stephen a gift of a jersey, with ‘Colbert’ on the back of it, at the end of the show.

That’s all for this guide Hubsters. Look out for a new guide tomorrow about Wednesday’s show. Please feel free to let us know what you thought about this show in the comment section. Thank’s for reading!

  • Jennifer (aka ColbertsLassNC)

    More in-depth commentary to come later when I’m on my actual computer and not this phone…

    So the look on his face when Roury handed him the jersey with his name on it was freaking adorable… I’m always amazed at how humble he always appears! *melts* ^_^

    • http://www.twitter.com/milquetoast7 tamara

      agreed! and I liked his music! great song!

    • ColbertsLassNC

      It wasn’t until later that I caught what Raury did to his actual jersey, hence justifying Colbert’s expression even more so. Priceless moment.

  • DeeCee

    I was disappointed that the Trump interview felt more like a celebrity interview than a political interview - no really hard hitting policy questions were posed to the Republican front-runner. Compared to the substantive questions Stephen asked Cruz, Trump ‘s questions were all softballs. (Who knows…maybe that was a condition for getting Trump on the show?) And his “who said this” piece was amusing but anyone not familiar with TCR would likely be confused. I was hoping for more.

    • http://www.twitter.com/milquetoast7 tamara

      well, Trump is more of a celebrity than a politician, for starters. does he have *any* political experience? like even as a “community organizer”? I thought Stephen was rather hard-hitting, actually. The meatball/Obama ‘birther’ question was substantive, and the talk about the wall with mexico. Trump just deflected and laughed off anything substantial because that’s the way he is.
      I was actually hoping the ‘who said this’ piece would be longer, because Trump has said so many offensive things. like he just kept telling Stephen about how awful the veterans are being treated - very true - but Trump made fun of McCain for surviving being a P.O.W. so…

      (sorry, I will stop ranting now. Stewart/Colbert 2016 4evah!!!)

      • DeeCee

        I understand your point but I think one needs to treat Trump as a politician as he is leading the Republican presidential polls. Guess we can agree to disagree! It is interesting how many different takes there are on this one interview.

        • http://www.twitter.com/milquetoast7 tamara

          Oh, I don’t think we’re disagreeing, or I wasn’t meaning to - it certainly has sparked a lot of different reactions! I guess what I meant (like I said below) is I think people had a lot of expectations foisted onto Colbert that didn’t really include “comedy show host”. I felt like Jeb/Sanders were pretty ‘softball’ overall too- but I didn’t expect stephen to grill them about politics, I expected him to be entertaining. Cruz was really serious, and I actually thought they should have edited out the booing & comment about it. that would have been nicer to the guest.
          I think I mean about the ‘celebrity’ thing is that Trump’s ‘personality’ so overwhelms his political aspirations, I think that is what is driving up his popularity. I could be wrong though.

          alt choice: Pinky/Brain 2016
          :)

          • juice318

            Actually, in a Trump (ptooie!) White House, Brain should be VP and Pinky Secretary of State.

            • http://www.twitter.com/milquetoast7 tamara

              I love this!!!
              “are you thinking what I’m thinking, Pinky?”
              “I think so, Brain, but where are we gonna get a duck and a hose at this hour?”

    • gensing

      Even before the show, I thought the joke was that Trump was in the celebrity interview slot and Moniz was in the politician slot.

      • DeeCee

        I don’t think there is a set celebrity/politician sot — I think the biggest viewer draw typically gets the first spot. In this case it was Trump. VP Biden also had the top slot. (Trump also had the lead spot on The Tonight Show as did Hillary Clinton)

  • bleu

    I liked that Stephen seemed to be enjoying himself and having fun while interviewing Trump. Out of all the Late Show interviews so far, this one had that playful, joyful, mischievous nature, which was common on the Colbert Report. Personally, this is the fist time I’ve really felt that spirit shine on the Late Show. I know that dynamic was easier to create on the Report because of the character, but I’ve been missing it.

  • Gina (aka CN Helper)

    So far I could only watch the Trump interview. I really was pleased with it. We have to remember that Stephen’s main gig isn’t being a political satirist anymore. Nevertheless, he has been doing political satire for 18 years, so it’s always going to be in his blood. If great political observations and moments arise as a result of his work on the show, that’s a bonus. However, taking politicians (or wannabe politicians) to task cannot be agenda item one, in my opinion.

    Really, those “gotcha” moments were Jon’s thing anyways. (i.e, when he interviewed Jim Cramer.) Stephen’s character was a tool to show off their intellect and reason of his usually very intelligent and accomplished guests - he wanted the guests to “disabuse” his character of his own ignorance. Guests were carefully selected for how well their usually very reasonable ideas could clash with Stephen’s character’s unreasonable ones, and make way for great conversation and debate. This platform doesn’t give Stephen the luxury of being selective; he is going to have to interview the wide swath of American media figures, and some are trickier than others.

    I was thinking about when Letterman had George W. Bush on. Letterman clearly disliked him, but he worked with him during his appearances, and then of course stocked his monologue with jokes about Bush for eight years. He even had Bill O’Reilly on multiple times and let him do his thing before he finally got fed up with him the last time and told him he was a “goon” - that’s tough talk in Midwestern-speak.

    So, my point is, I recognize that everyone wants to see Stephen be strong and “stand up” to the polemic guests, however, his first task is to make jokes, and secondly, make his guests feel as comfortable as possible, lest people be running from his couch.

  • http://www.twitter.com/milquetoast7 tamara

    I think a lot of people say things like “I am looking forward to this interview” etc on a … late night talk show with a comedian. they did this all the time when Jon had politicians on TDS, and ppl are also complaining that Fallon isn’t being “hard-hitting” enough with his guests. I never thought it was a good idea for ppl running for office to go on any late-night shows, because it seems soooo pandering. but overall, I think it’s strange that ppl expect a comedian to do hard-hitting journalist work. I understand, bc our straight journalists have failed us a lot. so if Trump had been on AC360, and it went like this, I would be outraged. because that is a serious news show. I do think Stephen has been fair w/ his politicians so far in asking all of them, essentially, to explain their platform and why we should vote for them. other than that, I want jokes. I want silliness. In some interview before the show started, they asked what he’d do w/ Jeb on and he said “I don’t know, maybe we’ll do a cooking segment”. that would have been very enjoyable.

    I also think a lot of ppl are upset bc “Colbert” would have eviscerated Trump, no question. it’s probably hard to shake the ‘character’ comparison this soon into the new show.

    sidenote - I told my friend he dances a lot and she said “oh like Ellen DeGeneres” and i’m like NO LIKE COLBERT TOTALLY DIFFERENT

    • Kidney

      That’s funny, cause I was looking over the tags The Late Show puts on their YouTube videos (you can do that with apps like Vidiq) and next to obvious ones like “Letterman” or “The Tonight Show” was “The Ellen Show”. Weird choice, but I guess they’re just trying to catch as much attention as they can. 😉

  • Gina (aka CN Helper)

    ok i’m late for work (thank God i’m self employed) and caught the whole. Roury is so dope! That the first time that I saw the lighting compliment the performer so well, the light up squares were just beautiful. Great job lighting team. Big musical acts fit in well in that space, and by “big” I mean in production value. You have so much “open field running” in that space, as Stephen would say. The transitions are really better, especially at the top of the show, when Stephen “throws” to Jon and the quick joke before the opening credits. Seamless!

    Dr. Moniz was the bomb (not literally, that would be catastrophic), and him asking Stephen for a signed copy to give the nuclear deal to Donald was the ultimate burn. My husband is Iranian, and I can’t be more grateful to the Obama administration for getting this deal up, making the world safer and hopefully helping to bring stability to the middle east, and least in the distant future. I was just in Iran this past August, and for the first time in my visits I see that Iranians are full of hope for their future, thanks to the improving global relations.

    Hunger games segment was great, a real hit, except the purple eyebrows freaked me out a little. I think fans of Stephen’s Phil Ken Sebben character will enjoy hearing that “Ha! Ha!” laugh he does in that bit. Ha ha!

    • Jennifer (aka ColbertsLassNC)

      Harvey Birdman:AAL fiend here and yes, I LOVE ALL THE PHIL KEN SEBBEN REFERENCES every time!!!

  • Katt

    I actually really enjoyed the Trump interview, and even liked Trump a bit … Someone hold me!! I am so sacred for my own sanity right now! I don’t know what’s happening to me!!

    • ColbertsLassNC

      He did seem surprisingly grounded, for once.

  • ColbertsLassNC

    I love that i’m posting again and it looks like there are two of me. I couldn’t remember my password on my mobile version last night, so here I go again!

    I’m on lunch, so i’m right in the computer screen making an attempt at typing this secretively while being overly stuffed from Peruvian food… but I think my biggest issue with the show is that I keep thinking it’s going to meet an expectation or fit a model we have seen before, and I have to be mindful that it’s not ever going to do that… I just need to stop carrying the notion around that there is an ultimate expectation needed to be met here, other than the one of just sheer entertainment for viewership, of course.

    As much as I love him dearly, it’s ALL still growing on me. I am not a fan of the new monologue segments at all. I don’t like the lead into the opening intro-credits with the flat jokes and one-liners… it worked so well for TCR… but this isn’t the same anymore, and it just doesn’t vibe with me.

    Plus, I am still hoping for an announcer to be put into place for segments and/or the opening theme… though the idea of Stephen still maintaining that cute, narcissistic nature about him is appealing in its own right (if narcissism could ever be defined as so), I feel this needs something more. Take Reggie Watts on The Late Late Show for example. He just adds SO MUCH to the dynamic of the show. Batiste is adorable, but he’s not got the verbal chops to do both, I don’t feel. We just need more. (Hint Hint, Late Show Gods) 😉

  • http://www.colbertnewshub.com/ Clem79

    I am conflicted about the Trump interview. I felt that Stephen could have been tougher on him. I really enjoyed the Ted Cruz interview, so perhaps my expectations were too high. Trump is enough of a joke as is, but I feel like we saw a dialed down version of Trump’s huge personality. Although, his statements about building a wall on the Mexican border and having a big door to come into America clearly made him look like a fool.

  • juice318

    I’m in the camp that had mixed feelings about Trump’s interview; Stephen is such a gentleman, while “Stephen” used to gleefully pounce upon Trump’s “jokes that write themselves.” The game was kind of fun, though I really enjoyed The Hunger Games, er, tribute more.

    Here’s where Stephen’s gift for sharing the stage shines through: the best Trump take-downs of the night came from Moniz and Roury.

    • Gina (aka CN Helper)

      I just noticed what Roury did with his jersey and the Trump slight, like now, watching him perform again. Very slick! Very cool.

  • peteywheats

    I feel that Colbert just barely managed to hide his seething contempt for that Clownstick Trump. I salute Stephen for pulling that off. He is really trying to be fair to all sides, even the stupid side. Also, Raury was surprisingly good, listening to him now on Apple Music.

  • lockhart43

    I’m sorry, Stephen, but I just couldn’t do it. I just couldn’t watch the Trump interview. I’d unmute it and then I’d hear Trump say any word whatsoever, and I just couldn’t do it. I know what a big “get” it was for Trump to come on the show, and I’m super glad for that. But this is one of those times where I just couldn’t handle it. The rest of the show, however, was super enjoyable :)

  • K.V. Lady

    I loved Raury and have been listening to him on Spotify ever since I saw the episode.
    The rat with the pizza was too funny!!!!