Everything's so bad, Ken Jeong (almost) can't bring himself to dance on The Late Show

Hey, the country’s on fire, so that’s fun. After spending his monologue doing the tougher than usual nightly duty of wringing laughs out of the truly hateful, racist, and all-around depressing-to-humans-with-souls news emanating from the Trump administration, Stephen Colbert looked like he could use a little pick-me-up. Unfortunately, guest and human “look at me” machine Ken Jeong came out seemingly enervated by the same grind of Supreme Court retirements, Republican hypocrisy over same, and children in fucking cages. Slouching onstage to the sounds of bandleader Jon Batiste’s jaunty theme music, the unprecedentedly bummed out actor, comic, and former actual doctor told the taken aback Colbert that he was trying to “rebrand” himself, perhaps as someone not willing to do literally anything to make people laugh.