Just Hearing the Name ‘Jeb Bush’ Is Enough to Put Stephen Colbert to Sleep

On Wednesday night’s Late Show the Stephen Colbert, the host took many of the Presidential candidates to task, offering his desk segment to tackle some of the storylines that are hidden beneath the Trump-dominant news cycles.

Colbert opened with the controversial call this week of closing American borders to Muslims, noting, “I’m not sure how the TSA would be able to test you for your religion.” Colbert continued, “Though I will say their pat-downs are thorough enough to determine if you are Jewish.”

The Late Show host continued in on Trump’s candidacy, saying, “It’s [Trump’s] entire electoral strategy — Trump says something shocking, then all of us on TV spend days repeating it, giving him millions of dollars of free airtime.” Colbert then joked that Trump had done the impossible — bring a divided nation together — since both GOP members and Democrats alike have hurled insults at Trump over his rhetoric.

Colbert shifted gears onto the Democratic race for the Presidency, highlighting how the lack of announced debates for the party are playing into presumed support for frontrunner Hillary Clinton. After displaying just how low Martin O’Malley‘s polling numbers have been, Colbert offered Clinton a low-visibility failsafe: “To play it safe, I recommend she appear only at Martin O’Malley events.”

Colbert even managed a few good digs at “eyelid advertising opportunity” Dr. Ben Carson who spoke before the Republican Jewish Coalition last week hilariously mispronouncing the word ‘Hamas’ (Carson says it like ‘hummus’). Even the casual reference to Jeb Bush‘s name alone is enough to repeatedly put the Late Show host into an instant lethargy.

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