Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate was impressive in one regard, Stephen Colbert said on Thursday's Late Show: "It managed to thread the needle between confusing and boring." From the CNBC moderators' first question — "the one question that no one in human history has ever answered honestly" — they did manage to bring out the fight in the 10 Republicans on stage. Only, the fight was mostly against the moderators. Still, Colbert said, "what the moderators lacked in courtesy they made up for in lack of preparation."
Colbert didn't find many winners in the two-hour-long debate — from the viewers on down, it was pretty dismal — but he did salute the one hero of the night, Donald Trump. He was so pleased with Trump for negotiating the debate down from three and a half hours to two, he pledged to vote for the bronzed billionaire — with one big caveat. If you watch until the end, you'll get to see Colbert nearly chop off author Jonathan Franzen's head with an axe. Peter Weber
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