Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers recap the 2nd Democratic debate, create a 3rd one just for Steve Bullock

Joe Biden, whose supporters passed out ice cream cones, entered Thursday night's Democratic debate as the frontrunner, Stephen Colbert said at The Late Show, but "the Joe Cone was met by the Kamala Harris flamethrower. ... She made Joe scream, you scream, we all scream, 'Holy cow, she might be president.' As a former prosecutor, Harris found everyone else on that stage guilty of being less interesting and sentenced them to two hours of being her pasty background singers."

Colbert ran through some debate ... highlights? "Sen. Michael Bennet seemed surprised when a question was directed his way," Mayor Pete Buttigieg showed he "spoke Beto O'Rourke," and "self-help guru Marianne Williamson ... had her own prescription for beating Trump," he said. "Yes, we need to go deeper than these superficial carefully thought-out political policies. Has anyone tried fixing American with crystals and bee pollen? Yoga?"

"At one point every candidate was talking over every other candidate about something I can't remember other than how Kamala Harris put an end to it," Colbert said. She nearly put an end to Biden, too, he said.

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"It was clear everyone wanted a shot at Biden tonight," but not every punch landed, Late Night's Seth Meyers said. "Look at that smile: Joe Biden uses his teeth the way Wonder Woman uses her bracelets," he said. But "even his teeth couldn't save him from" Harris.

"Williamson didn't get a lot of time tonight, and she's probably not going to be in the race for very long, but we will always have her closing statement from tonight, which was less of a statement and more of a reading from a one-person show titled When You Harness Love, Love Will Win," Meyers said. "The four people who did not qualify for these debates watched that and thought, 'What?'"

Among those four was "the actual governor of Montana, Steve Bullock," Colbert said, so he gave Bullock his own debate — 10 Bullocks, actually. Watch below. Peter Weber