Stephen Colbert found yet another way Tuesday to present a new Late Show while remaining on Thanksgiving vacation. "I thought it would be fun to flip the script this time, have some of my celebrity friends over to interview me for a change," he said in a pre-taped introduction. "That's right, even in a show I pre-recorded so that I wouldn't have to host a show, I'm still not hosting that show." Those friends included Kerry Washington, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Jake Tapper, but the first segment featured Colbert's old boss and current under-desk denizen Jon Stewart. "I'm strangely nervous," Colbert said after Stewart teed up the first question.
After some witty banter and light nostalgia — Stewart had interviewed Colbert only once before, as a stand-in for Al Sharpton — Stewart brought up the elephant perpetually in the theater, President Trump. Colbert said he met Trump once before he ran for president, and he was "just some guy you'd see someplace" and not "blustery at all," but also "orange like you couldn't believe." Stewart explained why he doesn't miss hosting a topical comedy show in the age of Trump using an elaborate turd-mining analogy, and you can watch that below. Peter Weber
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