‘Nunberg took over cable news like a car chase

Posted by freemexy on April 19th, 2019

Leading up to “The Late Show” on Monday night, Stephen Colbert planned to deliver a monologue packed with jokes about trade tariffs, much as fellow comedian Trevor Noah did.“But we’re not talking about trade tariffs tonight. That’s not where we’re going,” Colbert said. Fastening Tape “Because right before we taped this show, the entire news cycle jumped on the bus to crazy town,” Colbert said.

Throughout the afternoon, former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg took the media on a wild ride, calling The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN and other networks for increasingly strange interviews. A defiant Nunberg said that he had been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury investigating Russian interference in the 2016 campaign but that he would refuse to testify.

And Colbert loved every minute of it.The comedian spent the majority of his 11-minute monologue playing clip after clip of Nunberg’s media blitz, hurling one-liners after each one.“Nunberg took over cable news like a car chase,” Colbert said.“I believe at 5 he called in to HGTV to incriminate himself on ‘Flip or Flop,’ ” he said of the reality television series. “I’m pretty sure after Mueller gets through with him, it’s going to be flip,” he said, referring to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.Colbert played a clip from Nunberg’s interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, in which Nunberg insisted that he is “not going to produce them every email I had with Steve Bannon and Roger Stone from November 1 of 2015.”

“Whoa, what happened on November 1? That is weirdly specific,” Colbert said, comparing Nunberg to a guilt-ridden man trying to evade a police officer.“Officer, I’m a busy man, I don’t have time to walk you out to the third storage drain north of my barn,” Colbert quipped. “I definitely did not dump a body in there between the hours of 4 and 6 last night.”Nunberg also told Tur that his attorney was about to “dump” him, to which Colbert fired back: “Sam, I think your dentist is going to dump you right now.”Colbert quoted Nunberg’s interview with CNN, during which he insisted that he would not communicate with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, because “Carter Page is a scumbag.”