Stephen Colbert shifts his Joe Biden Age jokes to Donald Trump
A day after President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race, the host behind “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” spent part of the opening monologue of his Monday night episode talking about Biden’s accomplishments in office.
“I believe he has been a great president,” Colbert told his audience. “He saved this country from a horrific pandemic. He saved countless lives by encouraging people to get vaccinated. He brought the economy back. He rallied our allies, he reaffirmed America’s place on the world stage, and most inspiring of all, he was never Donald Trump. Inspiring.”
Colbert said he was going to miss Biden — noting that “at this program there on September 10, 2015, I encouraged then-Vice President Biden to run for office. He ignored me for five years, and then he did it!”
Colbert then announced that he has retired his Biden-style aviator sunglasses, which will now sit in the background of his set, “in a place of honor next to Captain America’s shield.”
The host added, “Those pilots did the hardest job of all. They made it look like I was doing a Joe Biden impression.”
Colbert noted that he has no impression of Vice President Kamala Harris — who will now serve as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. So instead he put on a new pair of pilot shoes. “Hey everyone, I’m Kamala Harris,” he said with an ironic, even more Biden-like impression. “I’m going to be your new president, Jack!” We are still working on it.”
Those airmen weren’t the only thing Colbert joked he would end up with.
“I’m officially quitting all my ‘Joe Biden is old’ jokes,” he said. “They were starting to get tired. Just like Joe Biden. That was the last one, I swear! Now I’m going to retire it and use it for Donald Trump.” With that, he picked up a folder labeled “Joe Biden Old,” turned it over and read “Donald Trump Old.”
Monday night’s episode of Colbert (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS) also features guest Keanu Reeves, who joins Colbert in the “Big Questions with Even Bigger Stars” segment. And musician Charles Wesley Godwin also appears in the episode.
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Watch this part of Colbert’s monologue here, courtesy of CBS/The Late Show:
