Stephen Colbert traveled to Philadelphia for his election eve Late Present interview with Tim Walz, the place the highschool soccer coach-turned-vice presidential candidate gave America a closing pep speak forward of Tuesday.
“Gov. Walz could not come to the Ed Sullivan Theater due to the fact that this building is not a swing state,” Colbert quipped on Monday night time, earlier than the present reduce to a pre-recorded interview with Kamala Harris‘ operating mate, filmed on the Johnson Corridor espresso home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
To start out the interview, Colbert requested Walz about his highs and lows of the marketing campaign path — when the veep candidate stated there have been no lows, the Late Present host requested “not even sharing the stage with J.D. Vance?”
“OK, that was not great,” Walz admitted.
(The highs? “Seeing my former students,” Walz stated. “A lot of them come back… I’ll see them at events all over.”)
Walz’s 10-minute softball interview lined the story of how he met his spouse, Gwen, his affinity for Food plan Mountain Dew and the perfect Midwestern insults — “I’m not angry with you, I’m angry with your behavior.” The duo additionally performed a spherical of paper soccer.
When requested if he was stunned by the tied election polls, Walz stated no. “It disappoints me, because I think that the choice is so stark,” he stated. “But it’s not surprising, the country’s really divided.”
He went on to elucidate, per Colbert’s request, the idea of a possibility economic system by means of the language of automotive restore.
“So your car is running a little rough, it’s still running but there’s things that you could do,” Walz stated. “And now, if it’s an older vehicle, you can get a carburetor clean on it. You can invest the money into a really important piece, say the carburetor, being the middle class. You put a little investment into that carburetor. The entire vehicle runs better. That brings oxygen into the entire system. So you invest in the middle class… the middle class makes everything else work.”
The section ended with Walz’s pep speak. “We know that we’re in the final two minutes of this game,” he stated. “We’re going to give 110 percent, we know we have to leave it on field because, look, democracy is at stake here.”
Final Week Tonight host John Oliver joined Colbert after Walz, the place the 2 comedians spoke about their experiences masking Donald Trump for almost ten years now.
“2016 came, and it has never left,” Colbert stated. “We have been in the 2016 news cycle for eight years now.”
Colbert additionally performed a 2015 Late Present clip of Oliver saying he “didn’t care” about Donald Trump saying his first run for president. “Wouldn’t it be great to go back to a time like that?” Colbert stated on Monday.
Oliver agreed, saying, “I still don’t give a s— about him, I just have to. I just want to be in the situation where I don’t have to care anymore. So I go back to my original state, which is, this guy means nothing. So that’s what I want to happen so much.”
Elsewhere in he interview, Colbert requested Oliver about Elon Musk’s one-sided feud with the Final Week Tonight comic.
“I think one of the things is he clearly loves comedy,” Oliver stated of the billionaire Trump supporter, who regularly goes after Oliver on-line. “So he wants to be funny. And unfortunately, money can’t buy you that — so deep down, he’s never going to be funny, and that must be eating him alive, because he’s trying so hard to be funny. And every time he tries, it must make it seem further away from him, that laugh that he’s always chasing but will never catch up with. And that is going to be a vacuum of the center of his soul for a long time.”
