“Nobody gets into this business because everything in their lives has gone great and so they’re built for the rough.”

Stephen Colbert On Wednesday, he gave a special address to his audience after the former President. Donald TrumpVictory over Vice President Kamala Harris inside 2024 presidential election.

One clip sent to the authority The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Taking to Instagram ahead of Wednesday’s episode, the long-running late-night host looked directly at the camera and said: “Hi. How are you? If you’re a regular watcher of this show, I guess you’re not doing so well. Yeah , me neither.”

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He continued, “You know, some people said to me today, ‘I’m sorry you have to do a show tonight.’ It’s nice of them to say that, but I don’t have to put on a show. to obtain I’m going to put on a show tonight.”

The late-night host explained that he was “grateful to be with all these talented people, the people here, the people you’d never see in the audience (at the Ed Sullivan Theatre), the people at home.” He explained: “Especially in times like these, what do we most want to be? Alone.” It’s not. So thank you for being here.”

Colbert assured viewers that he still plans to host a comedy show despite the disappointing election results. “There will be jokes because that’s what we do,” he said. “And I’ll let you in on a little secret. Nobody gets into this business because everything in their life has gone great and that’s why they’re built for the rough. Are you ready?”

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Colbert joked about his preparation for a regular cold open, as if he wasn’t dipping viewers into the ice bath of a cold open. Clips of newscasters preparing for the possibility of Trump’s re-election are lost in the phrases “and now the world is reacting to America’s decision.” There have been numerous parodic international “reactions”, from a Canadian hockey player hitting the goal with his stick to Daniel Radcliffe (representing England) saying Harry Potter: “I’ll be in my bedroom, I won’t make any noise and I’ll pretend I don’t make any noise.” “no” to a group of dancing Russian soldiers.

Late Show It’s certainly not a political show, but Colbert has deep roots in political TV. Hired as reporter Daily Show While still hosting in 1997 Craig Kilborn. Afterwards Jon Stewart Colbert, who took over in 1999 and ramped up the political insults, really began to shine, developing a character that satirized the Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck types of the era.

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The success of the Colbert character gave him the opportunity to have his own political talk show in 2005. Colbert Report throughout its nine-year period. Two years later in 2016 Colbert Report taken down Colbert It was decided that the high-intensity, ignorant and confrontational sycophantic character will “never be seen again”.

he said Entertainment Weekly You felt it for the first time in June under pressure to “reinvent” nightly format when you succeed David Letterman -most Late Show in 2015, but soon fell into a deep-rooted streak. “I was determined not to do a monologue… I thought, ‘I’m not a stand-up. I’m an actor.’ And then I fell in love with the monologue. You just have to relax, have a good time, and follow your instincts in terms of the stories you’re interested in,” he said.

Inside another tonight’s preview video Late Show During the episode, Colbert shouted obscenities at the studio audience rather than at the camera. “Well, f— happened. It happened again. After a weird and bad campaign fueled by the desperate need to avoid going to jail, Donald Trump won the 2024 election.”

He confirmed that the “deep sense of shock and loss is immense” but encouraged his audience to “look on the bright side; at least there will be a peaceful transfer of power!” Mike Penceolly olly ox free!,” he shouted, referring to the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021, and former Vice President Pence’s refusal to yield to Trump’s incendiary demands.

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“As a late-night host, people often say to me, ‘Come on, part of you wants Trump to win because he gives you so much material to work with,'” he said. However, he noted that this was not the case, adding, “No one says to the guy cleaning the bathroom, ‘Wow, you must love it when someone has explosive diarrhea, that’s a lot of material for you to work with!'”

For those willing to walk with Colbert on the difficult road ahead, Late Show is airing weekdays at 11:35 PM ET/PT on CBS and Paramount Plus.