Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert join Colbert to explain Donald Trump's RNC

Stephen Colbert joins Jon Stewart and Colbert after RNC Night 1

(Image credit: Video screenshot, Twitter/@colbertlateshow)

published 19 July 2016

Nobody knows what's going to happen this week at the Republican National Convention, Stephen Colbert said in his live after-RNC special on Monday night. "How can we guess what will happen when we can't explain how we got here? How did Donald Trump get the nomination? I know I can't explain it, but I think I know somebody who might be able to." Colbert then jumped to a prerecorded segment where he hunts down Jon Stewart at his cabin in the woods. There are a lot of Trump jokes, several obviously gleeful spit takes, and a very special guest we haven't seen in a few years. It looks like Stewart may not be the only late-night staple we get back for this year's political conventions. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.

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