Kumail Nanjiani | It's Yammer Time
The Late Show Pod Show with Stephen Colbert
CBS
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
All of the major networks agreed to air President Trump’s surprise primetime address, the president confused White House partygoers with his telling of the Hanukkah story, the U.S. appears ready to attempt regime change in Venezuela, and New York City is bidding farewell to one of the quirkiest mayors the Big Apple has ever seen. Comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani describes “night thoughts” as pesky worries that plague his mind as he’s trying to go to sleep. Watch as he shares a few recent examples with our audience, and watch his “Night Thoughts” stand-up special this Friday on Hulu.
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| 0:52.9 | Welcome, welcome one and all in here, out there, Mr. and Mrs. and all, the ships at sea. |
| 1:01.6 | To the late show, I'm your host Stephen Colbert. |
| 1:04.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, if tonight you are joining us through the medium of TV, thank you for staying up late. |
| 1:13.9 | We were preempted tonight because every network agreed to air old grandpa ramblepants sundown jamboree. |
| 1:22.7 | It was 9 p.m., right? 9 p.m. speech tonight from the Oval, probably? We don't know. |
| 1:28.1 | We talked about doing the show live tonight to cover the speech, but we decided not to because, and just to give you a little peek behind the show, Biz Curtain, we would have watched it. |
| 1:42.8 | And I don't want to do that no more. |
| 1:46.9 | Trump announced tonight's speech out of nowhere |
| 1:56.7 | yesterday afternoon saying, |
| 1:58.7 | my fellow Americans, I will be giving an address to the nation |
| 2:03.5 | tomorrow night, live from the White House, |
| 2:06.6 | at 9 p.m. S, I look forward to seeing you then. |
| 2:11.9 | It has been a great year for our country, |
| 2:14.1 | and the best is yet to come. |
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