Late-night hosts take aim at Donald Trump’s microphone gaffe

Election day is upon us and the late night hosts are ready. Or as ready as they can be given the circumstances. Jimmy Kimmel used his last show before the election to make an impassioned plea to get rid of Donald Trump, while others mocked the Republican candidate’s recent meltdown over a microphone during one of his rallies.

“After a two-year campaign, we’ve finally made it through all 20 years,” Stephen Colbert said. The Late Show. “It’s felt like a long time.” He continued more seriously: “We are all in some true sense witnessing history. Good or bad. I guess that’s how the people of Pompeii felt when Vesuvius tried to be re-elected. “

Colbert told how none of the experts can predict the election result. That didn’t stop Kamala Harris from proclaiming “We will win” during her rally in Allentown, but it did lead to Colbert banging on a block of wood, throwing salt over his shoulder and frantically licking a rabbit’s foot before taking a shot of tequila. For luck, of course.

He detailed Harris’ “positive” closing message and noted that Trump’s final message was a bit different. “It’s ‘Bring me my enemy’s liver on a stick,'” Colbert said. He then played footage of Trump imitating a blowjob on his microphone stand. “I was wrong,” Colbert said. “Obviously he has a job plan.”

On Jimmy Kimmel liveKimmel had a more direct message in his monologue, where he made his own closing argument for the election.

“Forget about what side you’re on,” Kimmel said. “I want you to take a moment to imagine a world where you wake up in the morning, you check the news, and nobody says the words ‘Donald’ or ‘Trump.’ Just a lot of normal, boring stuff. Would not be nice? No red hats. You check the sport, then you go to work.”

He concluded: “Let’s remove this cancerous polyp from our collective national colon and move on already. Don’t forget to vote!”

Jordan Klepper was given the honor of hosting The daily showlast episode before Election Day, and he used it as a chance to talk about Harris’ last message and “Trump’s last BJ.”

“Tomorrow is the big day at long last,” Klepper said. “Tilda Swinton’s Birthday. She is becoming ageless. So congratulations to her. Tomorrow is also election day. And look, I’m not in the prediction business, but I still think Joe Biden can pull this off.”

Klepper demonstrated the difference in messages for both candidates in their run-up to the election. “For Kamala, it’s a message of hope, unity and ‘look who my friends are,'” Klepper said. He continued: “While Kamala ends the campaign on a note of joy and celebrity hype, Donald Trump’s closing argument is that he’s mad at pretty much everyone.”

The host added before playing the infamous mic clip, “But Trump didn’t just give off dark vibes, he also gave off a strange sexual energy.”

“What are we doing here humans?” Klepper answered happily. “I hate to say it, but can we please go back to the hand job routine? Please? I mean, you know a campaign is off the rails when you go to watch C-SPAN and it asks if you is over 18 years old.”

On The Tonight Shownoted Jimmy Fallon, “We finally made it.” He added of the anticipation: “I can’t stand it. That must be the type of anxiety the PR guy for Carnival Cruise feels every day.”

Fallon also played the footage of Trump’s incident with a microphone to groans from the audience. “His staff was like, ‘Oh my God, he’s blowing it,'” Fallon responded.

On Late Night with Seth Meyershost Seth Meyers used his “A Closer Look” segment to reflect on the final moments of the election. “None of us can control what happens tomorrow,” he said. “We can only control how drunk we are when it happens.”

Meyers also aired the microphone moment from Trump’s rally, calling it the candidate’s “closing message.” “I just had a flashback of trying to turn off Cinemax because I heard my parents coming down the stairs,” Meyers said. “Seriously, dude, if you did that during charades, you’d be banned from game nights. I don’t care what the answer was.”