Stephen Colbert envies escaped monkeys who went ‘off the Grid’ in South Carolina – and expresses it with ‘Little Mermaid’ parody

Forty-three monkeys escaped a research facility in South Carolina Thursday, avoid catching still as of this writing. It not only impressed “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, but filled him with envy to the point where he created a parody song for them.

Sure enough, the CBS host laughed off the situation and urged residents to follow the police’s advice and lock their doors — but he also urged them to leave their doorbell cameras on just in case one of the primates showed up at their front door and did something fun.

“For now these monkeys are gone. They are off the grid and leaving their problems behind,” he said. “To that I have only one thing to say.”

The host then turned to one of his secondary cameras, which had a digital frame of monkeys added, and began to sing.

“I wanna be where the monkeys are,” Colbert sang to the tune of “Part of Your World” from “The Little Mermaid.”

“I want to see them spread rabies! Biting a poodle with—what’s the word? Teeth!” he continued. “Out where they scream, out where they throw, 43 monkeys doing their thing! Running free, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo with the 43 monkeys are they pooping!”

You can watch Colbert’s full monologue in the video above.

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