After his emotional response to the Paris attacks on Friday, Stephen Colbert was a bit more charged up for Monday’s Late Show.
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He said: “New York is a city that sadly knows all too well the horror the French experienced”.
The episode opened with house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human performing a somber rendition of the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise”, to honor the 129 killed and hundreds more wounded in Friday’s Paris terrorist attacks.
Here’s a brief exchange from the interview, where Colbert jokingly invites Maher to return to the Catholicism of his youth and Maher doesn’t really fell like playing along.
After Colbert espouses his religious connections with his ancestors, Maher says: “These are men that did not know what a germ or an atom was or where the sun went at night, and that is where you are getting your wisdom”.
Colbert then began to list and thanked France for what the country has given the USA throughout history, including “key intelligence on how to put potatoes in boiling oil” and his “favourite way of kissing”. They’ve given the United States so much over the years: Aid to General Washington in our fight for independence.
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Or maybe they’re just a little skittish about all the people and odd machinery that comes with making a live television appearance on a major late-night show in a enormous venue like the Ed Sullivan Theater, because cats are easily terrified of the stupidest things. Absolutely. Because watching a cartoon Parisian rat make soup is certainly as valid as anything I will say tonight, I promise you that. “Take Pascal’s wager: If you’re wrong, you’re an idiot, but if I’m right, you’re going to hell”. I don’t. They’re cute and they’re silly, two things ISIS hates.
