Stephen Colbert Jokes About on ‘Late Show’

A presumably false story that went viral this week, with memes and jokes spreading quickly throughout social media, about Donald Trump’s operating mate J.D. Vance writing in his memoir about utilizing a sofa and latex glove throughout a solo intercourse act has discovered its manner into the late-night monologues, with Steven Colbert riffing on the faux information on Thursday evening. 

The rumor about Vance made the rounds on X in current days, together with on this tweet by consumer @wunderbra666 on July 17, two days after Trump introduced he’d picked Vance as his operating mate: “On pages 179-81 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance talks about fucking an inside out latex glove between two sofa cushions. I’m so glad that that is coming from the man who claims he’s all about household values.”

Hillbilly Elegy is Vance’s 2016 best-selling memoir about rising up in poverty and a damaged dwelling in rural Ohio and Kentucky. 

“In fact, this isn’t our nation’s first furnishings intercourse political scandal,” the host mentioned throughout his Thursday monologue on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. “All of us bear in mind when Invoice Clinton mentioned this, [cuts to archive footage of Clinton speaking, the audio of which has been dubbed], ‘I didn’t have sexual relations with that ottoman.’”

‘The place does somebody even get an thought like that? I blame these filthy IKEA directions,” Colbert quipped. 

Colbert structured the collection of gags at Vance’s expense as a salute to the Related Press, which printed a fact-check article, headlined, “No, J.D. Vance didn’t have intercourse with a sofa.”

Colbert then reviews, citing an unnamed exterior supply, {that a} PDF search of Vance’s e book yielded 10 references to couches. No intercourse act is talked about in any of these passages in Vance’s e book. 

“In fact not,” the host jokes. “J.D. Vance is a really non secular conservative. He is aware of it’s Adam and Eve, not Raymour and Flanagan.”

Seemingly critical, Colbert then will get into the misinformation of the entire scenario — but in addition retains repeating the faux information.

“This simply exhibits how massive an issue this info may be. Even a well-meaning reality test can wind up amplifying a false story,” he says. “So all of us, all of us, please, have a accountability to cease the unfold of vicious rumors like J.D. Vance had intercourse with a sofa, as a result of it’s merely not true, which is why now we have to refuse to make use of the hashtag #cushinpushinJDVance.”

A wierd twist on this story was talked about earlier than Colbert moved on from the collection of Vance jokes: The AP has now eliminated the fact-check article in query from its web site after it reportedly “didn’t undergo the wire service’s normal modifying course of.”