Stephen Colbert Retires His ‘Late Show’ Joe Biden Age Jokes — But Promises to Repurpose Them as ‘Donald Trump Old’ Bits

A day after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, the host behind “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” spent a part of his Monday night time episode’s opening monologue recounting Biden’s accomplishments in workplace.

“I consider he has been a fantastic president,” Colbert instructed his viewers. “He steered this nation out of a horrific pandemic. He saved numerous lives by encouraging individuals to get vaccinated. He introduced the economic system again. He rallied our allies, he reasserted America’s place on the planet stage, and most inspiring of all, at no time was he Donald Trump. Inspiring.”

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Colbert stated he was going to overlook Biden — and famous that “on this very program proper over there on September 10, 2015, I inspired then-Vice President Biden to run. He ignored me for 5 years, after which he did it!”

Colbert then introduced that he has retired his pair of Biden-style aviator sun shades, which can now reside on his set’s backdrop, “in a spot of honor subsequent to Captain America’s defend.”

The host added, “These aviators did the toughest job of all. They made it look like I had a Joe Biden impression.”

Colbert famous that he doesn’t have an impression for Vice President Kamala Harris — who will now function the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. So as a substitute, he donned a brand new pair of aviators. “‘Hey everyone, I’m Kamala Harris,’” he stated in impression that was, tongue-in-cheek, nonetheless extra Biden-esque. “‘I’m gonna be you’re new president, Jack!’ We’re nonetheless engaged on it.”

These aviators weren’t the one factor that Colbert joked that he would finish.

“I’m formally retiring all of my ‘Joe Biden is outdated’ jokes,” he stated. “They had been beginning to get drained anyway. Identical to Joe Biden. That was the final one, I swear! Now, I’m going to un-retire them and to make use of on Donald Trump.” With that, he took a binder labeled “Joe Biden Outdated,” and flipped it to learn, “Donald Trump Outdated.”

Colbert’s Monday night time episode (11:35 p.m. ET on CBS) additionally consists of visitor Keanu Reeves, who joins Colbert on the bottom within the “Huge Questions with Even Larger Stars” phase. And musician Charles Wesley Godwin moreover performs on the episode.

Oh, and Colbert is stepping into the Charli XCX of all of it, simply as Harris’ marketing campaign additionally embraces being part of Charli XCX’s ‘Brat’ summer season:

Watch this a part of Colbert’s monologue right here, courtesy CBS/The Late Present:

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