On Tuesday, Democrats made history by officially nominating Hillary Clinton as the first female presidential standard bearer of a major American political party. "A hundred years from now, our grandchildren will look back on this day and say, 'Why weren't you more excited? What's wrong with you people?'" Stephen Colbert said on his post-Democratic convention Late Show. Maybe it's because even after 25 years in the public spotlight, we don't really know Hillary Clinton, he suggested, then took Bill Clinton's comment about Republicans "making a cartoon" of Hillary literally, introducing Cartoon Hillary Clinton.
"Thank you for being here, Secretary Cartoon Clinton, and congratulations on your historic achievement tonight," Colbert said. At least on her first night, Cartoon Clinton was less entertaining than Colbert's Cartoon Donald Trump, and that's really the joke. She dodged questions with platitudes and robotic gestures and jokes, and also played a harmonica version of "Low Rider." When Colbert asked about the Democratic National Committee email hack, Cartoon Clinton assured him, "Stephen, Bernie Sanders is a great friend, and has been for days now." Watch Colbert's much less momentous first for Hillary Clinton below. Peter Weber
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