featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert!

jon batiste, everybody. say happy birthday to jon batiste, ladies and gentlemen. happy birthday, jon! >> jon: thank you! >> stephen: i hope you have a very, very happy and blessed one. thank you for being here. the gift is that you're here tonight. ladies and gentlemen, my first guest tonight is a 16-time he's releasing a new album tomorrow called "57th & 9th." ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the great sting! ( cheers and applause ) ? ? ? ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: welcome to the show. >> what a lovely welcome. that sounded very scottish, didn't it? >> stephen: yeah. any old style over there. welcome to the show. nice to see you. i haven't seen you in a few years. >> that's true. >> stephen: as a matter of fact, the last time i saw you, i think, was at your 60th birthday concert, the beacon? >> the beacon theater, five years ago. >> stephen: yeah, five years ago. you're 65 years old. ( cheers and applaus >> yeah. i'm proud. >> stephen: as a man who's 52, you go to hell. ( laughter ) i want to tell you, on the drive home, i was with my wife on the dri

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featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! captioning sponsored by cbs >> stephen: what's going on? hey, buddy. >> stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen! stephen. >> stephen: hi, chris. hi, paul. what's going on, matt? what's up, mark? ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: that's nice. welcome to "the late show," everybody. so nice to have you guys here. i'm your host stephen colbert. with just six days left before the election, this race-- this race is now tighter than your spinning teres are. tighten up. a little nervous. they're clenching a little tight right now. you could throw a kingston brick head up there and pop out something like for an engagement ring? ( laughter ) notice, a lot of democrats are blaming f.b.i. director james comey's bombshell announcement we didn't know. nobody knew. nobody knew. it was a shocker. now, it looks like the f.b.i. is trying to hurt hillary's campaign, which has a lot of people upset. mostly russia. th

now, say hello to jon batiste and stay human, everybody. ? ? ? ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: yeah! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: oh, well, it's been an upsetting campaign, hasn't it, jon? >> jon: well, you know. we got to deal with it, but it's only four years. >> stephen: exactly. whatever happens, it's only four years. and we're just now a few weeks from election day which means it's time for every american to perform their civic duty, threatening to move to canada if it happens, talk like this happens every four years. canada is like america's safety school. so, i started to wonder, if you really did want to move to canada, what would that take? so, for you, the viewer, i found out. jim? i met with toronto-based canadian immigration lawyer, andrew cumming, to find out how to turn over a new maple leaf. thanks so much for talking to me today. >> pleasure to meet you. >> stephen: so what do we got here? ask away, on behalf of my audience. >> so, your name, exactly as it appears on your passport. >> stephen: it's stephen colbert. c-o-

( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon batiste, everybody! ( cheers and applause ) welcome to "the late show"! thank you so much! hey up there, out there, way over there. good to see you! ( piano riff ) good to see you, everybody! thank you so much! awfully nice. awfully nice. ( cheers and applause ) thank you so much. welcome to "the late show." i'm stephen colbert. everybody feeling all right tonight? ( cheering ) thanks very much. well, thank you so much for your energy, because we were here late last night, we did the show live last night. trump hangover. we are all still recovering from last night's third and final debate, if there is a god. now, everybody's wondering who won. like this debate and every debate, who won, who won, who won the debate? well, cnn, and this is true, named the winner of the debate hours before the debate began. and they say it was excedrin, is high, be prepared with excedrin." that's cute. but of course, after watching the debate, we know the real winner was: "nyquil-- sweet darkness of sleep, it's your only es

featuring jon batiste and "stay human"! and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: grand slam! ( cheers and applause ) ? ? ? hey! welcome to "the late show" everybody. so glad you're here. i'm your host, stephen colbert. and i've got to say, i am in a fantastic mood, because the chicago cubs are going to the gentlemen! ( cheers and applause ) that's right. the world cup of baseball! and the cubs, the cubs are playing another lovable loser, the cleveland indians. now, the two teams have a combined 176 years without a championship. to put that in perspective, that is almost as long as a baseball game feels. ( laughter and applause ) ( piano riff ) cubs were in the world series was in 1945, way back when they played hitler. ( laughter ) yeah. yeah. yeah. ( cheers and applause ) he's pretty good in the early game, then he popped out in the ninth inning, and that's how america won world war ii. yeah. that's the truth. you won't find that in a his

give it up for jon batiste and "stay human"! >> jon: you got it! >> stephen: i still got it, baby! ( cheers and applause ) you know, folks, despite the the f.b.i. e-mail froufrah, hillary clinton still leads in the polls. so donald trump needs every vote he can grab. which is why his campaign has been reaching out to minority voters. like this new ad targeting indian-american voters. before you watch part of it, i want you to know, we didn't edit this clip. this is really how it goes. ? friend in the white house. ( cheers and applause ) we will defeat radical islamic terrorism. i look forward to working with prime minister modi. ab ki baar trump sarkaar. we love the hindus, we love india! i am donald trump, and we approve this >> stephen: wow. that is jarring, convoluted, and confusing. i guess whoever cuts his hair also cuts his ads. not all his minority outreach is going that well. check out a trump rally in north carolina this weekend. >> we have a protester. by the way, were you paid $1,500 to be a thug? where's the protester? where is he? if you can get him out, get him out. >

( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: jon batiste, "stay jon, i asked you this last night. i didn't check in again at the end of the show. >> yeah. >> stephen: are you coming to thanksgiving dinner this year? >> oh, yeah,ivy be there. >> stephen: excellent. do you have any allergies or anything like that? >> jon: no, no food allergies. >> stephen: we'll find out. ( laughter ) my first guest is a five-time oscar nominee who has starred in "enchanted," "the fighter," and "american hustle." her latest film is "nocturnal animals." please welcome the lovely and talented amy adams! >> stephen: hello. hi! >> stephen: nice to have you on. we haven't had a chance to chat before. i'm stephen colbert. >> i'm amy adams. too. >> my daughter wrote you a note. she's backstage. >> stephen: "hi. i'm vianna. nice to meet you. ." >> and she drew you a little picture of a flower. >> stephen: hi, avianna -- is that right? >> yeah. >> stephen: back the only thing i know how to draw is snoopy. >> there you go. >> stephen: i made a friend. awesome. >> stephen: do i get to keep this? >> yeah. >> st