Stephen Colbert flipped the script on Wednesday’s second-to-last episode of “The Late Present” as a string of celebrities turned his common “Colbert Questionert” section again on him.
When it was Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro’s flip to ask Colbert a run-of-the-mill query that the outgoing late-night host often asks his well-known company, the outspoken Donald Trump critic requested: “What quantity had been you considering of?”
Colbert supplied a long-winded response:
“There’s a touch as to what the reply is, as a result of at any time when any person solutions the query and offers the flawed reply, I at all times say no; and after I give the suitable reply, which has occurred not less than twice — Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke guessed appropriately — and Ethan Hawke goes instantly, ‘I do know what it’s. It’s three.’ That’s the quantity I used to be considering of.”
“OK,” De Niro deadpanned.
Then he delivered the punchline: “As a result of I assumed it might have been two million level 5, or two and a half million. That’s the variety of Epstein recordsdata Trump nonetheless hasn’t launched.”
Watch from the 1:50 level right here: