Donald Trump’s now-infamous “grab them by the pussy” video couldn’t have come at a worse time for late-night hosts. As Variety notes, most of them had already recorded their Friday night episodes or were off for the night. But Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee, in keeping with their Daily Show roots, quickly put together videos skewering the Republican candidate for their respective shows.
Ahead of the broadcast of his pre-recorded Late Show, Stephen Colbert released a YouTube of him watching the video in real-time. The usually loquacious host was reduced to mostly mumbling things like, “Oh, my goodness” over and over again (though he did manage one decent quip:“All the Tic Tacs in the world will not freshen his breath after this”), before finally turning the video off early. “I think I have the idea,” he said.
“Here’s what I really found disgusting,” he said later. “Trump says in the video, ‘When you’re a star they let you get away with anything.’ And unfortunately that’s true, because Donald Trump is the Republican nominee. Hopefully someday he’ll be telling the story of how he tried to fuck America and failed. Have a great debate on Sunday you guys!”
Samantha Bee and her team at Full Frontal also released a video last night, though they choose to parody Trump and Billy Bush’s vulgar bus chat instead of offering any commentary.
“You know what looks a little bit luscious to me,” Bee said in her video, which was edited to look and sound like Trump’s. “Balls. I just like to reach up there and grab them. Just get in there and reach in…Look at the nutsack on that guy. I’d like to make a hat out of those balls.”
BREAKING: Samantha Bee recorded having extremely lewd conversation about men in 2016. pic.twitter.com/UBYUJFGayy
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) October 8, 2016
She even prepared an apology that mocked Trump’s:
An Official Statement From The Full Frontal Team pic.twitter.com/nwiaR2g5bS
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) October 8, 2016
The Daily Show, meanwhile, had this reaction:
The Daily Show would like to formally withdraw its endorsement of Donald J. Trump.
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) October 7, 2016
Daniel Radosh, one of the show’s writers, however, has been much vocal about the video on Twitter.
Not saying this is the first thing to take away or even the second, but why would anyone go furniture shopping with Donald Trump? pic.twitter.com/Com57cI3WE
— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) October 7, 2016
Tic Tac headquarters def getting a sympathy card from Skittles tomorrow
— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) October 7, 2016
Give Trump credit: He moved on the presidency like a bitch, he just couldn't get there https://t.co/tjIZmrru3c
— Daniel Radosh (@danielradosh) October 8, 2016
And for a much more explicit celebrity rejection of Trump, here’s a video of Robert De Niro saying he’d like to punch him in the face.
Everyone needs to watch Robert De Niro giving his views on Trump at least 20 times today! #VoteDeNiro pic.twitter.com/X6fKLqHkOL
— Declan Pierce (@DecPierce) October 8, 2016
Posted By: Taylor Berman
