other things to know bowlers are the people who throw the ball. a wicket is the area where they're throwing it. a batsman defends that area and they do it all in innings. sometimes a bowler will throw a grubber, or a ball that hardly bounces in the wicket. >vern>they all have. >paul>their own. >sara>honestly, i have no idea what i just said. >vern>i would like to go. i mean, i would like i would like to check it out. i >sara>think my producer >paul>corrected >>me. did i say that right? i did. >paul>the matches can be days long. yes. >sara>days long. >paul>yes. yes >sara>days long. >vern>yes. >> president, commander-in-chief, and master of the house? donald trump has tried to institute a makeover on the arts since his return to office to office. >> he will head to the kennedy center where he will watch the opening night of les

miserables. >> this is at the trump administration. at this new retelling, the french uprising is squashed by the national guard. see john valjean in handcuffs, watch fan tenet be pelted with bullets. see them shipped off to el salvador. as any of this legal? so see lehman's at the trump kennedy center with a special performance by the preident himself. >> we cannot accept this violence, one day more. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, for law enforcement. plus stephen welcomes, colman domingo, and to the cast of "slow horses." featuring louis cato and

"the late show" band. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it is stephen colbert! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hammock, everybody. thank you, please have a seat, my friends. welcome one and all to "the late show," i am your host stephen colbert. i have to tell you, it is just a great day to be alive. especially if you're from chicago. because this afternoon, pope leo rocked a white sox hat at the vatican, proving that the first american pontiff truly is a sox

fan or is dropping a new collaborative with chance the rapper. over in l.a., they are on day 6 of protests sparked by aggressive raids by i-c-e. last night, mayor karen bass declared a curfew in the protest area. and life in los angeles came to a grinding halt, by which i mean 'the disney concert hall' canceled one show, saying, "due to the curfew put in place for downtown los angeles, tonight's seoul chamber music concert has been canceled." thank goodness. we must keep these chamber musicians off the streets! they travel in little gangs called "quartets" promoting their woke, oboe-sexual agenda. not much else was affected because the protest area is actually quite small, as mayor bass explained:

>> when i look at some of the footage of what is happening, you can get the sense that there is civil unrest happening city wide. i have to tell you that the vandalism and the protests that you are looking at is taking place in several streets, individual streets in the downtown area. it is not even all of downtown. >> stephen: yeah, you can't characterize a whole city based on something that's just happening in a few blocks. all of new york is not broadway. "wolf, i'm coming to you from mezzanine row f where there is no intermission in sight. the seats are uncomfortable, everyone is drink $40 cups of white wine and onstage, the founding fathers continue to rap. it's going to be a long night." [cheers and applause] thank you, thank you! city officials insist they have the protests under control without the need of federal troops. la's police chief said of the

national guard "they're not with us doing the job that we're doing." and mayor bass explained, "there's nothing for them to do. why would you bring in more troops when even the ones that are here have nothing to do." so if they are not helping with the protests, what are the national guard doing? apparently they are accompanying i.c.e. on their raids. look at this picture posted by pete hegseth: for those keeping score, that is three heavily armed men, protecting two heavily-armed men from what appears to be an unarmed man. and i'm told hegseth will soon send in four marines, to cover the three national guard members, to protect the two i-c-e agents, who will arrest an old woman who swallowed a fly... i don't know why. [cheers and applause] perhaps she'll die. mayor bass isn't the only one speaking out, so is california governor gavin newsom, seen here introducing a bold new initiative to purple the

president's nurples. yesterday, newsom gave a televised address warning that trump's authoritarian tactics won't stop with his state. >> this isn't just about protests here in los angeles, when donald trump sought blanket authority to commandeer the national guard. he made that order apply to every state in this nation. the rule of law has increasingly been given way to the rule of don. >> stephen: d'oh, you blew it! you were so close. but you violated the first rule of fighting fascism: no puns. i mean, churchill almost lost the war with this speech: >> "we shall never surrender so 'just say nay-dolf to adolf!'" >> stephen: that's why they lost at dunkirk.

that led immediately to dunkirk. but newsom may be on to something about trump coming for the whole country. because trump keeps saying that. >> we're going to have troops everywhere. we're not going to let this happen to our country. this is the first, perhaps of many, i can inform the rest of the country that when they do it, if they do it, they're going to be met with equal or greater force than we met right here. >> stephen: you heard him! he's gonna send the troops everywhere. so get ready for the song of summer. hit it! [marching] i-c-e is busy creating new reasons to protest every day, even in red states. yesterday, u.s. immigration officials raided a meat production plant in omaha. first of all, 'meat-plant?' which is it? make up your mind. second, the company, glenn valley, was given no warning this raid was happening. executives said they were shocked, because the company

uses the federal system to check the identity and legal status of employees. as one executive put it, "we've done everything we're supposed to do as a company." they followed the rules and yet of the roughly 140 workers at the omaha plant, an estimated 75 to 80 people were detained. that's over half their workforce! how are they supposed to chop up all these animals? if you wanna be useful, i-c-e, grab a bucket and start shoveling hog anus! it goes in the bin marked hotdog! you know that, right? i'm not breaking that news? [applause] this raid has national repercussions. this raid kicked off protests in southern omaha with members of the community protesting i-c-e and carrying signs with phrases like "don't bite the hand that

feeds you," and "i drink my horchata warm because [bleep] i-c-e." [cheers and applause] i'll drink to that. yesterday, to celebrate the 250th birthday of the army, trump went to fort bragg and gave a speech to the troops. and he inspired them with tales of this great nation that he thinks is disgusting. >> los angeles has gone from being one of the cleanest, safest and most beautiful cities on earth to being a trash heap. >> stephen: okay, rude. but just to be real? i stand with l.a., but when was it ever the cleanest or safest? was he just talking about disneyland? "so they had a big rodent problem, but at least he wore pants and gloves." trump went on to boast about a new plan he's got for the

military. you see, fort bragg was originally named for confederate general braxton bragg. then, in the ancient two years ago, when congress 'didn't' like honoring traitors who killed other americans to keep slavery, they changed the name to fort liberty, but when trump got back into office, he brought bragg back. well, turns out, that's just the beginning. >> for a little breaking news, we are also going to be restoring the names to fort pickett, fort hood, fort gordon, fort rucker, fort polk, fort ap hill and fort robert e lee.& we won a lot of battles out of those forts. >> stephen: yes, because when you think winning, you think 'robert e. lee.'

same reason we just named our new battleship, the u.s.s. new york jets. ♪ ♪ there you go. how long did that take? technically, trump can't unilaterally change the law, but he found a loophole. the statute only requires that the forts remove any ties to the confederacy, so, trump ordered the army to restore the old names of the bases originally honoring confederates, but added that the base names would instead honor other american soldiers with similar names and initials. so, same name, but insane. "welcome, troops, to fort lee. not robert e. lee - sara lee. may we never forget her stirring battle cry: thaw and enjoy." we've got a great show for you tonight. my guests are colman domingo and the cast of "slow horses."

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news, proud puppy parent kristin chenoweth wants to start telling people her dog "came out of her vagina." and based on the dog's expression, he just learned that himself. [laughter] by the way, chenoweth's dog is a service animal who helps her manage her anxiety. unlike my dog, benny, who constantly brings me studies about climate change. enough about the ice caps. i know. meanwhile, nintendo: it's what your grandma calls pikachu. this is an exciting time for many, because last week eager gamers all over the world lined up for the midnight release of the nintendo switch 2, which has a new "gamechat" feature that allows players to "communicate with friends and family while playing a game." perfect for anyone who's ever said "i love playing grand theft auto, but i wish grandma could see me run over all these hookers."

can you play it on switch 2? i don't care, the joke worked. meanwhile, last week, "a hungry wild elephant raided a grocery store in thailand" and apparently caused very "little damage." that is until he found out he had to push a button just to get someone to unlock the deodorant. then he trampled everyone. [applause] i agree. meanwhile, over in england, a lost dog has returned home after swimming to an island on a 100-mile journey. just like that song "and, i would swim 100 miles. and i would swim 100 more. just be the dog who swam 200 miles. woof woof. i am a dog." meanwhile, the u.s.

mint has moved forward with plans to kill the penny. step one: take it to the theater. meanwhile... too soon? meanwhile, pornhub has suspended service in france in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors, even tough france is pornhub's second-largest market behind the u.s. which makes sense. the french have loved erotica since the dawn of moving pictures. who could forget the classic lumière brothers film: "horny train rails station." that's a deep cinema cut.

you will like that joke later when you look it up. meanwhile, a dutch museum is displaying a 200-year-old condom. let's take a look here. okay, looks nice and roomy! and you may have noticed a drawing on the side there, and that's because the condom features an erotic etching. oh yes! crinkled for her pleasure, featuring an erotic etching for her confusion. gotta feel for the guy whose job it was to draw on condoms. "hey, mom and dad, remember when you said art school was a waste of time? well guess who's the new in-house etcher at the extremely loose condom factory!" can we show this? we can show this? there is no way we can show this

on cbs. [laughs] the condom features an erotic etching depicting a partially undressed nun pointing at the erect genitals of three clergymen, as well as the phrase "voila, mon choix" or "there, that's my choice." [cheers and applause] i gotta say, condoms that feature a full cartoon panel risk ruining the mood a little. "baby i'm gonna rock your world and -- haha. oh, that's snoopy. he does love his bones." obviously, latex condoms didn't exist in 1825. experts explain the condom is probably made from a sheep's appendix. you know their slogan: sheep's appendix condom: "if you want to have sex, do not think about this at all." we'll be right back with colman

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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.

my first guest is an emmy awardwinning actor you know from "euphoria," rustin," and "sing sing." he now stars in "the four seasons." >> romantic love fades. >> i build something deeper. >> who invited the end cell? love is the point of everything. it defines ointment defines us as human beings. >> but dolphins feel it. >> help me say this, i know you agree with me. >> here is what i know, when you are young and in love, it is beyond your control. think about all of the people in our 20s, the people that you were in love with that did not deserve us. but we have knowledge and experience, we have chosen each other. >> and danny says that it sounds lovely. >> but i also agree that we are just animals who like to rub our

crotches on things. >> exactly. >> exactly? >> stephen: please welcome back to "the late show," colman domingo. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> colman: good to see you guys! [cheers and applause] hey! >> stephen: nice to see you again. >> colman: good to see you again. >> stephen: thank you for that outfit. >> colman: i wanted to bring you the sunshine. we need some sunshine. >> stephen: i would describe that color as solar flare. >> colman: solar flare yellow. >> stephen: you look like you joined the wiggles. >> colman: how do you know that i did not? >> stephen: you could have, you do everything. you are in an off-broadway play right now, you wrote this? >> colman: i cowrote it.

it's called lights out and lights out nat king cole. you know him, his billion, and it's a dark night of the soul for necking coal, deconstructing an american icon, but you get all of the good music. >> stephen: did nat king cole have a dark night of the soul? what is this dark night of the soul? p>> colman: it is 15 minutes to places, when you are thinking, was what i did worth it? what i did matter? it's all of those psychological things that people make go through 15 minutes till places. so it's like "a christmas carol" or "it's a wonderful life" in that vein. >> stephen: do you go through that? >> i do. not as often, but i have gone through it. any artist worth his salt has actually had those moments where you thought, does what i do make a difference? does it matter? does anybody care?

so i have had that before. so i think i am writing for my own experience as well. >> stephen: is it true that you are doing a film of necking coal? >> colman: that is my side piece. i'm doing a side piece of a film which is more traditional biotic. >> stephen: what's that called? >> colman: that is called "unforgettable." >> stephen: you are a singer as well, did you ever want to sound like him? >> colman: it's funny. because i think my voice fits in with his in an interesting way. i have some songs that i can do "unforgettable." >> stephen: what is your favorite? >> colman: my favorite is a song he recorded on his last album to like benefit his family and it's a song called "more." and it's beautiful. it goes ♪ than the greatest love ♪ ♪ the world has known ♪ ♪ this is the love i gave to you, alone ♪

♪ more than the simple words i tried to say ♪ ♪ i only live to love you more each day ♪ ♪ more than you are of no ♪ ♪ my arms want to hold you so ♪ ♪ my life will be in your keeping, waking, sleeping, laughing, weeping -- >> stephen: ♪ more ♪ that was beautiful. >> colman: thank you. >> stephen: as you know, we had you on for "ruston" you got an oscar nomination for that. also "sing sing" now you will

play the father michael jackson in the biopic. also directing a film about sammy connick jr.'s affair. >> colman: there are clandestine to love affair. >> stephen: necking coal, joe jackson, sammy davis jr., drawn to actual historical, cultural figures. why do you find yourself doing these parts and things you are creating yourself about real people? >> colman: they come to me and want me to tell their story. >> stephen: and dreams? >> colman: not in dreams, but they know that i will hold their story with integrity and i want to tell it, and we have to go back in history and look at who did what so that we can get to where we are getting, like i have been saying a lot of people that in this kim novak and sammy davis jr. film, you have to look at kim novak, this woman who made her career the way that she wanted and fought the system in

many ways. kim novak walked so that someone like sydney sweeney could run. i like looking at it in that way to see where we came from. [applause] >> stephen: speaking of history, we will remake history, because you are filming the highly anticipated third season of "euphoria." what was it like, do we have a shot here? here is you and the young lady we have gotten to know zendaya, right there. what was that like for the cost to get back together? it has been a minute. >> colman: it is beautiful and bittersweet. we did not all come together because we lost angus, and that caused delays, he was embedded in the third season in such a great way. so we had a lot of stops and starts and once we got everyone's schedules on board, úeveryone came with so much love and enthusiasm to make this the best last season that we could have. >> stephen: as we have shown

in the clip, you are also in "the four seasons" which is a series based on the 1981 -- >> colman: 1981. >> stephen: alan alda film of the same name. here's the film, i remember this when i was a kid. >> colman: why do you remember this when you were a kid? i watch this ten times when i was ten years old. it was on prism or something like that. because tina fey watched it ten times too. i guess i like to be in grown folks business. >> stephen: it is very adult. >> colman: it is very adult. it's 50 euros on vacation. and i was like this is good stuff. >> stephen: i will never forget, len carey you having sex down below. >> stephen: that was rita moreno. a desire to have sex on a boat.

is alan alda in this? >> colman: he is, he makes a cameo appearance. >> stephen: isn't he the most delightful fella? >> colman: class, kind, sweet. he is an incredible man, still working. >> stephen: he is just fantastic. >> colman: you are like that's going to be my favorite uncle from now on. >> stephen: you directed one of the episodes of "the four seasons." >> colman: i did, the six episode. >> stephen: and as a firmly established actor, multiple oscar nominee, what does actor colman domingo think of directors to colman domingo and vice versa? >> colman: i think that people will be a surprise to hear me say this, but i think that actor colman domingo would say that director colman domingo was better at his job. >> stephen: but you have not been nominated as a director. >> colman: but i think that colman domingo director knows how to throw good party. and that's what you need as a director. >> stephen: i love asking actors what they want from a

director. but what is the job? >> colman: party planning, you are going to bring people together for the sound, you want to bring everyone to do their best work. but you have to have the vision of it and communicate with everything a person. and i feel like i have been an organizer in many ways, and these things that i have done lean on that organizer scale. so how do i empower a group of people to go on this journey to create something that was never there before? and i think that's a beautiful thing. and i love to make sure that everyone is having a good time. >> stephen: and i'm guessing that you throw good party as well. >> colman: i throw damn good party. >> stephen: thank you for being here. "the four seasons" is available on netflix. colman domingo, everybody. we'll be right back with the cast of "slow horses." [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

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[cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> stephen: hey, everybody. welcome back. folks, earlier this year i traveled across the pond to interview gary oldman. we had a lovely conversation and i was pleased to find out that only "half" of what he said had

to be bleeped by cbs censors. oldman has been over in london to film the apple-tv-plus series, "slow horses," in which he plays jackson lamb, the curmudgeonly head of a delinquent mi-5 unit. but he is just one member of an incredible cast that also features kristen scott thomas as the flinty mi-5 deputy director diana taverner, jonathan pryce, who portras retired british intelligence officer david cartwright, and his grandson river cartwright, played by jack lowden. so i was thrilled when this wonderful group of actors agreed to sit down with me for a conversation. i am happy to say i'm sitting down with some of the cast of "slow horses," jonathan pryce, kristin scott thomas, jack lowden, and gary oldman. thanks for sitting down. jack, what was that like to join a storied cast? >> jack: insane.

it still is. i still feel slightly sad i have never been in a situation where i've been in a scene with all three of them at the same time. i don't think i have even been in a scene with you two at the same time. >> gary: i've never been in a scene with jonathan, have i? >> kristin: i've not been in a scene with him. >> gary: i was in the back of the taxi. [bleep]. >> jack: there's a lot of scenes. >> jonathan: his rule is never look behind. just look at the camera. i was sat behind. >> stephen: gary, what's your favorite thing about playing jackson lamb besides not going to hair and makeup. >> kristin: he spends hours in hair and makeup. that's the only time i see him. >> stephen: but you look like jackson lamb to me right now. put them in a dirty trenchcoat, take off the glasses i suppose. >> jonathan: i did not see gary properly for three seasons and when i went in the makeup trailer, i cannot believe that

he was actually not wearing makeup. and he did not have a fat suit on. >> gary: [laughs] >> jack: did you have a fat suit in the first season? >> gary: no. >> jack: thought you did. >> gary: no, i came directly from -- >> stephen: lunch? [laughter] >> gary: i came directly from a film where i put on a few pounds and then this was presented to me and it was this scruffy fellow who was overweight and alcoholic and what have you. so i just thought, well, i just might as well keep it. but once you have got it, my god, is it hard to get rid of it. >> stephen: yes, i find it difficult to watch jackson lamb eat. have any of you had scenes where you have to watch jackson lamb eat noodles or anything? >> jack: yes, i have that

unfortunately. >> stephen: i have to put it on mute and to read subtitles for some of that. >> jack: might have to watch it once. i have watched it -- >> gary: 17 bowls. >> jack: 17 bowls of noodles. >> gary: and then we broke for lunch. >> stephen: [laughs] >> jack: what was wrong with the 12th bowl? >> gary: i don't know. i just had another marathon, what was i eating? the spaghetti bolognese the other day. >> jack: very sloppy food. you are never eating like a chicken schnitzel or something, are you? it's just sloppy. >> gary: a kit kat or a twix. >> stephen: for the fans out there, when our tribe and her and jackson lamb just going to kiss? >> kristin: oh, god. >> jonathan: there zoe a tease there. >> gary: have you read a book

seven? she would go, i have not gotten to that yet. oh, my god, we finally get together, and we tear the sheets up. >> kristin: i'm so looking forward to that bit. >> stephen: you want to know the backstory, there's so much history. but you don't know anything about. >> jack: i reckon they did in berlin. >> kristin: there something going on. i don't know if it was that. >> gary: you fancy a big -- >> kristin: i don't know, there is some story we have not found yet way back. >> gary: yes come a long time ago. >> kristin: some digging that needs to be done. >> stephen: gary, you are great at accents and voices, we have a welshman, some from here, can you do these regional accents? can you do them? >> jack: do the scottish. >> gary: yes, i sometimes do that to bill patterson. >> jack: talking about -- what is it? >> gary: looking at a bird on

a hill. i don't think i've ever heard a cornish accent. but you don't have one? >> kristin: no, i just do po posh. >> stephen: can we hear your welsh? >> gary: it's just a little bit sharp, is it a bit like that? >> jack: that's all right. >> gary: for off-the-cuff. >> stephen: can any of you do gary? >> jonathan: i do him in the audiobooks. left. >> stephen: have you all done american accents? >> kristin: no, really. is this an american accent competition? >> stephen: yes. >> kristin: oh, god. >> stephen: i have some things only americans would say. you can pick one of these. pick one of them that you want to say. >> kristin: hey, sweetheart, can i get extra sour cream on

these potato skins? i am very proud of that, flawless. >> stephen: perfect. >> jack: you know some of these. you are half american now. >> gary: can you do me a solid and hook me up with a ticket for a limp bizkit concert? >> kristin: [laughs] 's be on jack. >> jack: i am drowning in medical debt because of my out-of-pocket high, so this is my deductible for some reason the u.s. is the only developed country without universal health care. >> stephen: you hit some black ice there. universal health care. god bless america, and its universal health care. >> gary: [laughs] >> stephen: okay, jonathan, your turn. >> jonathan: my buddy brent is in finance, he has some sick

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we return to the second -- and what many are already calling the "final" -- part of my interview with the cast of "slow horses." who would win in a fight, james bond or jackson lamb? >> jack: jackson lamb. >> stephen: why? >> jack: because jackson would not turn up. he would not be at the fight. >> gary: that stupid. >> jack: at home doing sit-ups. he would just be across the road with a chippy. >> stephen: could he take james bond and a drinking contest? >> gary: i think he could do that. >> jack: he could take moby dick in a drinking contest. >> stephen: before we go, i just want to say you are all accomplished and brilliant actors, who among you is the best actor? >> kristin: me. >> jack: probably. >> stephen: is that an agreement? jonathan? >> jonathan: yes. shucks. >> stephen: and since we know

that acting is lying, are you lying right now? >> gary: yes. no, i am a huge fan of jonathan's for years. i've seen him do a ton of things on the stage. >> kristin: it's amazing when you look in your seo career like yours or yours, or these careers that go back a long time, let's be frank, and even right at the beginning, the things that you are doing were so important. it's quite impressive. >> jack: it's also quite sad, i feel this recently, because my generation, these three are actors who have played a multitude of parts, and some of the hardest parts in classical text on stage, and actors now, and i know people talk about this a lot, but actors are expected to be the finished article very quickly because of this sort of slew of

opportunities. there is so much content that you are staring right in the middle and pumped to the stars. and you are not ready. and it genuinely is a joy to work with these three, and you can feel the sort of weight of experience that they have, and when you -- when i first started working with you and you would tell me the parts that you played in the glasgow citizens theater, and it's just not happening now. you have to be sticking these young kids in these huge rolls. and most of them are pretty c crap, they really are. >> kristin: and you only get one shot, really. >> jack: it so huge, and the muscles that you have built up, and you can see it every day when we go on set. it's my favorite thing about being in this is just watching good actors. >> stephen: do you go to set when you are not in the scee to watch? >> jack: yes.

sometimes they don't know i am there. sometimes they do know i am there. it's my favorite thing. i've said it before, my favorite, favorite thing is watching three people of your caliber work out what you are going to do. the little moments in between takes when i come watch them trying to work out what they are going to do. that's just fantastic to watch. you should sell tickets for that. it's great. >> stephen: that can be the next show. >> stephen: thanks all! thanks, horses. thanks again to jonathan, kristin, gary, and jack! season five of "slow horses" premieres september 24th on apple-tvplus. we'll be right back. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> stephen: that's it for "the late show." tune in tomorrow when my guests will be john c. reilly and eva victor. now stick around for "after midnight" with panelists sasheer zamayta, tien tran, and paul f. tompkins. goodnight.