Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah can't help but fall in love with Brett Kavanaugh's UB40 bar brawl

On Sunday, a college friend of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh described a bar fight after a UB40 concert in 1985 in which Kavanaugh threw his drink in the face of a man he thought was the easy reggae band's lead singer, Ali Campbell, and The New York Times found the police report. This, of course, is late-night TV gold, and Tuesday's Late Show got things started with a special Kavanaugh version of UB40's hit cover of "Red Red Wine."

"If you're familiar with UB40, you be at least 40," Stephen Colbert quipped. "UB40! Nothing could be more stereotypically college in the 1980s. What's next? Kavanaugh teamed up with James Spader to steal Molly Ringwald's underwear and throw it into the pool where Phoebe Cates is sunbathing while John Cusack holds up a boom box over his head screaming 'I want my MTV!'?" In the police report, Kavanaugh declined to tell police if he threw the ice or not, he noted, "so Democratic senators, don't feel bad, he won't answer cops' questions, either."

At The Daily Show, Trevor Noah called the UB40 incident "probably one of the greatest stories of all times," but he began with the troubling doubts about Kavanaugh's truthfulness. "Kavanaugh may make it seem like he's had a casual relationship with alcohol, but it turns out the two of them were probably more than just friends," Noah said. Still, the bar fight story is "wild," he explained. "Do you know how bad a fight has to be for the police to get called on a white guy at an Ivy League school in the '80s?!? That was like rich white male heyday — I mean, every decade is, but that one was extra good for them."

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Kavanaugh "raging as a young man doesn't disqualify him from serving on the Supreme Court, but Brett Kavanaugh lying about it to the Senate is what should be of concern," Noah said. He brought out Michael Kosta, who had a wild proposal to get to the truth while exculpating sober Brett Kavanaugh of perjury. Watch below. Peter Weber