Rewatch the best moments of the long GOP debate with short late-night annotated recaps

Seth Meyers recaps the GOP presidential debate

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published 18 September 2015

Seriously, Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate was really long, clocking in at a dense 3-plus hours. On Thursday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert joked that it was still airing on CNN — and it is, in highlight clips. Whether you missed the excitement, changed channels before it ended, or just want to watch the best parts again, both Seth Meyers at Late Night and Colbert did the public service of winnowing those three hours down to short recaps.

There is some overlap between the two recaps — each with its own geeky sci-fi references — but Meyers spent more time with Donald Trump's facial expressions:

And Colbert spent some quality time on Jeb Bush's admission of smoking marijuana. As Neil Diamond says, "the good times never seemed so good." Peter Weber