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🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Have a seat. Thank you so much. Welcome. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. I'm your host, |
0:11.6 | Stephen Colbert. First of all, happy Martin Luther King, junior day, everybody. |
0:22.4 | Always worth celebrating. And in honor, I thought I'd kick off the show tonight with a lesser-known |
0:29.2 | fun fact from this great man's life. Did you know that? And this is true, although we now regard |
0:34.4 | MLK as one of the greatest orders of our time. He actually received two seas in public speaking. |
0:43.1 | That is a really tough teacher. No one wants to hear the details of a dream, Martin. Also, |
0:49.3 | have you actually been to a mountaintop? Right what you know. |
0:53.5 | No. Yesterday, President Biden celebrated MLK's legacy from Dr. King's own pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church. |
1:02.9 | I say this with all sincerity. I stand here humble, being the first sitting President of the United |
1:10.2 | States, to have an opportunity to speak at Ebenezer Sunday service. You've been around |
1:16.2 | for 136 years. I know I look like it, but I haven't. I mean, look at this face. Look. |
1:29.6 | I know I look like it. Look at this face. It's like an old catcher's mitt. I mean, |
1:35.2 | white does crack, Jack. I look like somebody who's done rap to mummy. Don't ask what it was |
1:40.4 | wrapped in. It was classified documents. Oops. I've said too much. Amen. Play ball. Now, |
1:50.9 | Biden continued honoring the reverend this morning at a prayer breakfast where he learned it was |
1:54.8 | the birthday of MLK's daughter-in-law, Arndrea Waters King, although it seems like he was missing |
2:00.8 | one small detail. Well, look, my wife has a role in our family. When somebody's birthday is |
2:06.6 | singing Happy Birthday. You ready? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, |
2:17.3 | dear violin. Happy birthday to you. Wow. Okay. Now, people are accusing him. Yes. People are |
2:31.7 | accusing him of forgetting her name. That's not fair. He clearly never knew her name. |
2:39.2 | Or maybe they're just such good friends that he's calling her by her nickname. What's up? |
2:46.9 | Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Thank you. Unfortunately, for President Joe, |
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