Matt Gaetz is not a particularly reputable politician. Few politicians can be spoken in the same sentence as the word as "reputable" without eliciting laughter, but Gaetz is a particularly notable example of sordid behavior. The politician was accused of statutory rape, child sex trafficking and illegal drug use in 2020, and subsequently investigated by Department of Justice.
What a difference a few years makes. Gaetz was recently nominated by president-elect Donald Trump for the position of Attorney General, and the general public, late night hosts included, were stunned. Stephen Colbert was beside himself during his recent Late Show monologue, but we aren't here to focus on that.
Colbert made fun of Gaetz's Botox injections
Instead, we want to take it back to July, when Gaetz made an appearance at the Republican National Convention. He shocked up looking more bizarre than usual, and Stephen Colbert siezed the chance to absolutely tee off on the politician for minutes. It was hilarious.
Gaetz has seemingly gotten Botox injections shortly before the event, and his eyebrows were akin to Jack Nicholson wearing Joker makeup in 1989. Colbert managed to slip in a Joker reference, noting that Gaetz looked like "if the Joker worked at Sephora," but he had so much more, and it's worth revisiting in light of recent nominations.
He dubbed Matt Gaetz 'flame-broiled Donny Osmond'
"Holy Brotox!" Colbert noted. "He looks like a flame-broiled Donny Osmond." He then, in succession, fired off the best Matt Gaetz insults that him and his writers could come up with. They had some good ones. Gaetz looks like "a wax drag queen from Whoville," and part of a “business school production of Cats," in Colbert's estimation.
He also said Gaetz's appearance looked like if "Pennywise went to law school” and "if his plastic surgeon went to med school on a riverboat." Colbert clearly had a ball with these insults, and the fact that he took time out of his monologue to fit it as many jokes as possible proves it. We suspect there will be more zingers aimed at Gaetz for the next few years.