Stephen Colbert debuts his new Trump feature, Sixteen Scandals
For a nightly political comic like Stephen Colbert, the challenge is always going to be deciding how to approach the enormous and burgeoning shit mountain that is Donald Trump’s administration. On Friday’s Late Show, it appears that Colbert has decided on a “driving in traffic” approach going forward by just picking the one single, egregiously polluting outrage in front of him at the time, debuting what he calls a new, “soon-to-be-ongoing feature” based on the 16 (known) active criminal investigations against the Donald. Having Jon Batiste’s band, a busy in-house graphics department, and a lovely falsetto himself, Colbert introduced the segment with a Molly-Ringwald-as-Lady-Justice mockup, and a slightly rearranged classic song for the monologue bit, Sixteen Scandals. You have to make it fun.
