Stephen Colbert celebrates 'Comey Testimony Eve' by creating an attack ad against an audience member

Stephen Colbert talks Comey
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There was so much to talk about on Wednesday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert said, "I'm going to do two monologues." The first one, of course, celebrated "the most magical night of the year ... Comey Testimony Eve." The anticipation of former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony on his conversations with President Trump is so ripe, he said, you can taste it, and then he sang Phil Collins: "I can feel it Comey in the air tonight." (The drum fill makes the joke.)

At Comey's request, the Senate released his opening statement. "There's a lot of weird stuff in this document," Colbert said, reading through much of it and taking special note of Trump's protestation that he didn't hire "Russian hookers," his surprise dinner for two, and his referring to the Russia investigation as "the cloud" hanging over him. "Mr. President, that's not a cloud," Colbert said. "Meteorologists call that a sh-tstorm." In any case, "tomorrow, Comey is going to say all of this out loud, and senators will get to ask him questions about it for hours," he concluded. "I'm pretty excited."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.