As the coronavirus pandemic forces late night shows to suspend production, Stephen Colbert is getting creative.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert announced last week it would go on hiatus amid concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus after previously taping without an audience, so CBS ran an old episode on Monday night. But Colbert opened the rerun with a brand new monologue ... from his bathtub.
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Colbert in the monologue also ripped into Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) for suggesting on Fox News it's a "great time" to go to restaurants and pubs, cracking, "Nothing gets people to avoid going somewhere like knowing they might run into Devin Nunes." And he took down New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well for setting a "bad example" by going to the YMCA on Monday in the middle of the pandemic just hours before gyms were set to close across the state.
"Come on Mr. Mayor," Colbert said. "Don't you know that during an epidemic, it's fun to stay at your h-o-m-e because if you don't we'll be d-e-a-d?"
Colbert concluded by again encouraging viewers to stay home amid the crisis, noting that by simply sitting on the couch watching TV, they can "save the world." Brendan Morrow
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