Stephen Colbert weighs in on Trump’s election, offers advice
Colbert explained that a joke is derived from what someone says and how they behave, and he said the closer someone is to the way they behave, it’s less fun to write jokes about them.
“Donald Trump speaks one way and behaves in another, you know? It’s not– not even 180 degrees. There’s some odd, oblique angle going on with him,” Colbert said, adding that there are endless possibilities for jokes about Mr. Trump. “The balls come over the plate with him like shotgun pellets. It’s not like one pitch at a time. Like, you look at something that’s happening, like, well, which one of those balls are we gonna swing at? What he’s talking about or how he’s saying it? Or who he’s saying it to? And what time? And over Twitter?”
.. He later elaborated further and advised Mr. Trump to read the plaque, “The buck stops here” and realize that he must take full responsibility now.
.. “He’s famous for blaming other people for something going wrong,” Colbert said. “That’s over. The buck stops at that desk. And I hope he’s read it because the first time he blames something else for somebody– the first time he blames somebody else for something that he did, I think even people who like him will lose faith because– however you feel about the president, you’ve got to take the punch.”