Kimmel, Colbert, and Meyers pile on Rudy Giuliani’s CNN interview

Late night couldn’t get enough of Rudy Giuliani’s interview in which he stumbled over questions about collusion.

Anyone watching late night these days know they are in for a heavy dose of politics. Shows that once had one or two jokes a night about the president or Congress now dedicate entire monologues and bits to it. But you can’t really blame the hosts when you see an interview like the one Rudy Giuliani gave CNN.

The former New York City mayor is now acting as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. Guiliani is a frequent guest on political talk shows despite having a tendency to lose track of the discussion or put his foot in his mouth.

Things weren’t all that different when he appeared on Chris Cuomo’s show. He shifted the argument on collusion and suggested that the Mueller investigation should be over by now. All in all, it was a bizarre, frazzled showing by Giuliani that made for a lot of late night material.

Jimmy Kimmel used the clip to try to keep track of Giuliani’s lies and how he contradicted himself. You can tell that even Kimmel can’t quite believe what he’s seeing and hearing in the interview. It would be nice if networks like CNN could have clips ready to go when a guest is clearly lying. But that would mean a guest like Giuliani would have to have some level of predictability.

Stephen Colbert opened the top of his show by suggesting that Trump is enjoying the government shutdown because it distracts from the Russia investigation. It’s not the first time Colbert has floated the idea of Trump using distraction strategies.

Again, like Kimmel was shocked so too was Colbert when Giuliani claimed he never said there was “no collusion.” From there, Colbert does an excellent job of highlighting how the defense of the Trump administration has changed and morphed based on what information or evidence was released.

Rounding things out is Seth Meyers with “A Closer Look” on Late Night. Meyers had no choice but to go back to the segment after using it the night before to cover how Trump was losing the shutdown.

Meyers can’t help but point out just the weird expressions that Giuliani displayed during his interview with Cuomo. From there, Meyers looks at what he calls Rudy’s “accidental confessions.” Meyers follows Kimmel and Colbert by pointing out just how easy it is to contradict Giuliani’s claim that he never said there was no collusion.

As much as the late night shows want to differentiate themselves and find a unique take on the headlines, there is only so much we can expect them to do. When a character like Rudy Giuliani goes on television acting and talking the way he did then it’s only right that we get a few hosts ready to pile on. Maybe the best thing for Giuliani is to take a break from television but Kimmel, Colbert, and Meyers are probably crossing their fingers that it doesn’t happen.