Song Of The Summer: Opal Lee Rejoices As Juneteenth Becomes A National Holiday
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2021
- 94 year-old civil rights activist Opal Lee, who spent decades lobbying for recognition of Juneteenth as a national celebration of Black independence, let out a cry of pure joy upon learning that Congress passed legislation declaring Juneteenth a federal holiday. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
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Opal lee, that's my auntie! Amazing she got a shout out by Colbert.
She is precious!!!!
She's amazing! p.s. Can you give her a hug for me? I've run out of aunties to hug. 🙁
@@sophierobinson2738 sure will!
She is amazing! I cried at her sound of absolute excitement! She's so beautiful
👍👍👍
Ms. Lee's reaction is about to become the most famous meme in American history. I felt that joy. OMG!!
@Schizo Tazer One day more than you, whoever you are...
I love that Jon Baptiste hit the exact note on the piano that Ms. Opal was hollering. Such a fun and talented dude.
Hello
He's so energized by having a live studio audience. I enjoyed the quieter pandemic shows but it's great to see Colbert so excited.
I agree. His "home office" late show format was perfect. He definitely laughed a lot more and let his hair down with it (literally in the beginning lol).
Plus his wife being there made it feel like a fun family RUclips show. The live studio audience format is like a 90s sitcom. Most shows don't use them anymore
@@trialanderror7508 Agreed. I actually think I won't keep watching as regularly as I was before. I wouldn't mind an audience if it sounded less fake. Ugh, I hate fake-cheering. (How I notice? Well, sometimes the laughter starts before the joke is done)
@@trialanderror7508 ugh agreed. I much preferred the quarantine format. I really, really, REALLY hate studio audiences. So much wasted time on the sound of laughter and the host awkwardly having to wait for them to calm the fuck down.
I liked the pandemic Steve show more. But he’s still great.
I bet the studio audience is all wearing masks
Obamacare: 3 GOP: 0 😂
Remember 2016 when you all cried
@@victorarredondo304 remember 2020/1 when u all committed crimes on the capitol (and oh yeah cried too :))
@@quasarsavage coming from someone from the party that rioted all summer long last year destroying small businesses over a dude who overdosed.
@@victorarredondo304 It seems you like to let Democrats and BLM live rent free in your head. Sad.
@@victorarredondo304 Trump said Mexicans are rapists.
I never predicted how _directly_ Texans would suffer
as a direct result of their representatives' massive corruption.
There's something poetic about that.
I believe it's called irony my online friend
They voted for this, they deserve every bit they get.
I feel bad for a small group of them. They have to live around a bunch of dumbasses
@Tiguar Jagger Thanks for saying this - that last guy who said we get what we deserve doesn’t get it - Khama and bad juju has me hoping when we kick out Abbott he moves into your state
If I were a Texan democrat I’d move states at this point. You can’t turn it blue, better leave cause those on the right are fucking you over.
As a Portuguese dude im SOOO PROUD THAT OUR MAN CRISTIANO WAS IN THE LATE SHOW!
VIVA PORTUGAL 🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
Glad to see that Ms.Opal Lee has been able to live long enough to see this day happen.
As a Texan, this hurt hilariously
As a fellow Texan, I agree
Opal Lee is a legend!
I had never heard her story until Rachel Maddow told it -- either last night or night before last, I've forgotten which -- and I'm SO glad I learned about her when the holiday was declared, and that the holiday was declared while she's still alive!
About New Orleans:
Stephen: "Nobody's saying 'don't party'."
Jon Batiste: "Nobody has the courage!"
That cracked me up
_“Who's going to pay for the border wall?”_ ★ *“TEXAS!”*
Ask anyone who lives near the border if they dont want a wall
Colbert's writers are the best, and his delivery unparalleled.
We are so lucky.
Sooo..u work for him???Geesh....get a room
Obviously not the best if they think Cinco de Mayo is Mexican Independence Day
@@quintdotcom they don’t,
listen to that part again
I am happy for you folks over there.
Your next National Holiday should be: *Election Day !*
bingo
To much racist A holes. But your so right it should be a holiday. And also, thanks
No the next National holiday will be the day Trump goes to prison.Call Don the Con day.
That would depend on who is being elected.
Dems are trying to pass that with the Voting rights bill
Not only does my "gun" get smaller when it's cold, it won't "shoot"
Thankfully, nobody has kicked you in the gun lately.
You don't know my wife, her kicks don't miss wide right, they split the uprights. O.U.C.H.
"The GOP's previous attempt to kill Obamacare, killed their recent attempt to kill Obamacare."
The system works.
Brings a new meaning to two left feet, on the right side foot.
Wonderful, next National Holiday - Election Day!
I have no idea why that isn't already a thing.
For many years on Election Day Canada has required every employer to give every worker up to 3 hours paid leave from their job in order to ensure that they have enough time to vote.
Hell yeah it should be
And it should be! So you don’t have to take time off from work.
@@gemelwalters2942 I know why, but here's to correcting that mess: National holiday for federal elections!!
As a Texan I’m pissed that the gov is putting money toward a stupid wall when the power grid can’t handle heat or cold.
I feel so bad for you all
As another Texas, I agree..this is stupid and idiotic use of resources. Fix the power grid!
That's what you voted for when you picked Republican.
Gov. Abbott just wants to have a "win" for his reelection
Well well well now you don't want a wall but still want Trump?
Can we just take a moment to appreciate VP Harris's obvious joy at getting to announce this, and the reactions to it that were shown? Beautiful and infectious.
I love how some people are acting like this was a huge accomplishment, BUT we don't even have a National Voting Day. Lol
@@shameless5444 after four years of sliding backwards, any progress is good progress. The ideas that "we still desperately need to do X" and "Y is a significant, if singular, step in the right direction" can coexist.
So yes, this *is* significant. And yes, we *also* need to make voting day a federal holiday. You can push for one without tearing down the other.
@@aliciacordero8399 These small steps are easy and insignificant, given the real big problems (pandemic, economy, environment, terrorism, nuclear weapons, immigration, crime, education, etc). We shouldn't celebrate moving a pebble when we have many boulders that have been barely scratched. These are false, feel good victories. These problems haven't been seriously worked on or resolved for decades and decades.
@@shameless5444 the pandemic is on the way to being over, nothing really for the federal government to do there besides ask people to get the vaccine again. Crime and education take time and finesse to get right, and crime also requires comprehensive reform, so you won't be seeing those solved 5½ months into a first term. The FBI has been and keeps on rounding up the terrorists who tried to overthrow our government in January.
But besides all that, visibility matters. To use your analogy, things that to you seem like an insignificant pebble can, from another perspective, actually be the first chip out of those big boulders. Not to mention we just dealt with four years of purposefully ignoring even the pebbles; it's not wrong to see one being addressed after that and feel hopeful that it's a sign of things to come.
I loved the quarantine episodes, the intimacy felt, but there is no denying that Stephen projects a different type of energy with an audience. He blew It out of the park!
A lot of us native Texans have felt outnumbered for most out lives- we keep holding out for people to wake up and stop voting for Cruz.
Yeah wassup with that? He has to go!
They likely did, but these damn voting machines...
Where I live in Colorado, it has been in the 100s the last week. I'm also humbled that President Biden signed Juneteenth into law. I believe all Americans should be treated equally.
Every Republicans disliked that idea though.
@@gamepapa1211 yeah and they all suck lol they need the 👢
@@gamepapa1211 Who cares what Republicans and their Politicians like and don't like anymore. They're more of an American Nazi party than anything else. Screw them.
@@gamepapa1211 Don't you mean the GQP?
@@TheArcadeLink They pledge allegiance to the flag of the Feudal American Republic of Corporate Elite and to the F.A.R.C.E. it stands for.
The African American community in Texas has always made this a holiday it sick to see the Congressman from Texas not support this...... peace and love.
Stephen on FIRE today. Has to be the best monologue I've seen in a long time
Hell yeah! What a great day! Happy Juneteenth everyone!
A lot changed for this entire planet in 15 months. Many of us had life changing events. We should all be grateful and blessed to be here. Life is precious.
Hello, how are you doing?
is it me or is Stephen on fire since the come back? the jokes, the energy, and the whole vibe is fialoed to a 12... I've been watching Stephen for years now and I can confidently say that he's at his best
Jon's little additions in the back is too funny.
He's what all of us aspire to be watching at home, sharing intelligent commentary! 😂
To see 94 year-old civil rights activist Opal Lee let out a cry of joy was a beautiful moment.
True Stephen, that is the song of the summer.
I wonder if she would celebrate for all of her other activist friends who did not have the good fortune to celebrate it with her today.
Good shoelaces
Good show.
P
Someone should set it to blast beats.
It’s my new ringtone
@@gamepapa1211 h
How is it that the rest of look like we've aged fourteen years in the last 18 months and Jon Batiste looks six years younger?
He's a happy soul, and has his music.
@@sophierobinson2738 and an Oscar
He is sunshine
That N.O. juice is the fountain of youth.
Bc Jon is immortal. Dude is an ancient soul in a millennial body.
We now have an independence season! Hell yeah!
Colbert and the writers are on 🔥
And the great burns continue!!!
Only because of climate change.
Colbert is on the top of his game, thank you 😎😎😎😎😎
🎯
Eh, I missed him at home but tomato tomato 🤷🏾♀️
Stephen on a roll today, hitting plenty of homerun burns
WOW! The whole monologue was high and over the plate 👏👏
I love Stephen's show of gratitude in the beginning of the monologue. Well done, sir.
I would LOVE to see Opal Lee on The Late Show as a guest!
OMG I missed this. Stephen is at his BEST in front of people he love being in front of. Wish I could be one to watch. Screw concerts, I want a comedy show from legends.
“SPF 700 Club.” That is BRILLIANT! Hahahahaha!!
Colbert is right. People will take advantage of any holiday to drink and make merry. Can't get enough of them.🎊😄🎉
Not to mention that we Americans will take any excuse to play with explosives, and in a lot of places the gray-market fireworks are already getting started by mid-June anyway!
And the world sucks lol I do need another day of bliss
@@OrigamiMarie here comes some more fires. I hope no one throughs a reveal party. That shitll be bad
@@steveangello6586 from what I have heard, even the inventor of the reveal party regrets it now. I sure am happy that I moved to Northern Minnesota, next to Lake Superior. Won't miss the increasingly hot and smoky summers of Seattle 🙁
White people who "drink and make merry" on June 19th will be accused of cultural appropriation, and those who don't will be called racist.
As a proud Texan and Democrat, it sad to see my once proud State be turned into the Walmart of The U.S by the mouth breathers in office...
After being to a Walmart, you are on the money there!
Hay now Walmart usually has heating in the winter and AC in the summer
If Texas is the Walmart of the USA what is Florida?
@@tandt7694 Florida is America's meth dealer AND supplier of illegal pets.
@@tandt7694 the Dollar Store
Voting works. Let's vote even MORE.
Great to hear John chuckling from the side again :)
Congratulations on receiving Juneteenth Day into a National Holiday.
I can't believe he got Nathan Lane while he's been so busy preparing for Cicada, Cicada!
The Late Night Cinematic Universe is expanding at a rapid growth! Hello, fellow Seth Meyer's viewers!
isn’t the title spelled “cicada, secada”? good thing you’re not Seth or you’ll have to issue a Correction haha
@@CasualGamer11 Your the one who made the mistake, it is indeed "Cicada, Cicada!"
Colbert needs to be in Cicade Cicade...maybe he can be the "Stage Manager" role?
Dyung 😅🤣😂
That was one of the best Colbert monologues I’ve seen 👏
I loved the way Jon Baptiste sang "Obamacaaaare, yeah."
"Give us money for our project and we won't tell you what it is, or where it'll be"
I'll take "Worst Kickstarter pitches for $500, Alex."
I'll take "Things that died with the host" for 200, please.
Holy shit he is on point tonight.
Stephen is on fire. The audience is really powering him up and I’m here for it.
Great to see you back in front of an audience, in fine form!
‘If we just abstain from voting no one will notice…’
If you gonna be racist at least don't be cowards about it. To everyone else Happy Juneteenth! 👏👏👏
This kills critical race theory.... a win for conservatives. 👍
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The spit take I did at the end when Stephen took a swig and said "Agua!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great, Stephen's on fire with the audience back! Love it!
"Agua..." Of COURSE that was the perfect ending for that bit! Miss the coat closet, but welcome back to the main stage, Stephen!
As a Canadian, I had to look up what Juneteenth meant. Well done.
"Oh...there's a star at night
shining big and bright
in the Ed Sullivan Theater!!!"
Thank you for all the joy you create, Mr. Colbert! xoxo
I attended the show yesterday at Ed Sullivan theatre! It was amazing!
"That's how it goes down sometimes" best quote on this clip
I'm so glad you're back with the audience. It feels great tonsee you in your element. I had a smile the whole clip.
Happy Juneteenth, my fellow Black American people. ✊🏽🇺🇸
Black Liberation. 👏🏽👏🏽
Cheers from Canada.
Happy Juneteenth brotha ✊🏾✊🏾
But only for the black, right!? 🙄
Shut up, @@Cyril_Sneer.
@@Cyril_Sneer -- If you want to get together with all the descendants of white people who were held as slaves, by all means do so.
He's spending money on a boarder wall but CAN'T spare any cash on power grid improvements...
Stephen you definitely shine with your suit and audience. You kept me going and sane through Covid but you rock being back👏👏👏
Yup I live in Phoenix and it's been brutal! It's 10pm as I'm typing this and it's still 105 degrees 😩
now make election day a holiday, and cancel student loan debt.
nah, just make colleges back up the empty promises they used to persuade students to take up that debt.
Stephen Colbert is without a doubt America's greatest living comedian.
No he isn't. He doesn't write all of his jokes. He has a staff. And a lot of his jokes fall flat. Furthermore, he dips heavily and regularly into politics (which is super-easy to do, low hanging fruit).
Funny enough, the lights actually were on in Texas during the winter freeze. Only in downtown areas though, lighting up commercial buildings like beacons in a sea of pitch black everywhere else.
Commercial properties are more important than Residential properties because Corporations are more valued than People. Smdh
Many commercial buildings have generators in case they must be evacuated for emergencies with no power.
YO HE WAS ON A ROLL TONIGHT BRO🙌🏽
As a Texan, I fully support his message about Texas. And I was one of the lucky ones not affected by the winter power outage.
Lucky you. I had 3 days sub-freezing down to 1 GDF degree. Yay.
One of the lucky FEW, I believe.
I guess you’re just special. When will you be sending that big ole check to the governor to keep the generators running? Oh, I’m sorry, I meant for the governor’s personal bank account. 😠
That's why you stiil support him. So I'm curious, if you had a bad outcome how would you feel? Or be like the whip lash REPUBLICANS WHO LASHED OUT on the floor of Congress their exasperation at 45"s words to his MAGA CREWS attempt to "stop the steal",
"FIGHT LIKE HELL OR YOU WON'T HAVE A COUNTRY..."
JANUARY 6. 2021,
"...a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by ...." President Roosevelt 1941".
Switch out Japan and insert
45's MAGA and other like-minded groups..
Only for those exact REPUBLICANS go SILENT on a vote to form a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 2021 Insurrection.
But I guess you're a REPUBLICAN, and flip flop to serve a means.
@@carmalitamoreno4448 they did not say they supported abbot or his idiotic decisions just the message from colbert about texas
I don't know why but I was so pumped about the Supreme Court decision... This is the Friday energy I needed.
Thank you for your accuracy about cinco de mayo! 👏👏
We all just kind of breezed past Jon Batiste saying no one had the courage to tell people in New Orleans not to party! Jon's funnier than he sometimes gets credit for, lol!
Also, my family was briefly considering moving to Texarkana because my husband could be closer to his company's main office. We were dragging our feet on it, and then we heard they'd made it legal to carry a gun without a permit and just figuratively ripped up the plans and burned them because NOPE. The power grid issue was troubling enough and now we just have one thing after another confirming Texas is not the place to be.
I thought Texas was already an open carry State? I haven't visited any of my family tree there in a couple of decades, but they carried guns then.
@@timothydavis9181 You really dodged a bullet there.
@@chinkasuyaro8983 underappreciated post :).
Gasp!! Those 14 republicans are against African Americans having a holiday based on getting recognized as actual citizens instead of property?? I’m super-surprised they would do that (he said sarcastically)!
The thing that threw me was that EVERY Senate Republican voted for it. What do you suppose, they're just sick and tired of being universally despised?
Jon & Stay Human hitting us with the classics… Touch the Sky at the end of the monologue! Love it!!!
SPF 700 club, loved that. Amen 😘 every opportunity to eat drink & be merry. Steves on fire 🔥 this evening. 👏👏 😘 😁
As a man who lives in Phoenix. I can attest that it's literally hot as hell here... and then a heat wave happened. It shouldn't be 117 for 8 more weeks.
Phoenix is a testament to man's ignorance
I’m happy everyone is there but I’ll always miss the backyard and spare room late show
It will be an experience you can relate and say "I remember . . ."
I'm just happy they kept "the Vaxx-Scene intro is so long" joke during their very first show ever.
It certainly was a much more personal experience
I feel you. Stephen is a performer, so an audience is key. But what he gave us during the worst of the pandemic...Jaysus. Not sure he'll ever understand how much that contributed to our mental health.
I hear that!!
I love that 90+ year old woman's response!
Yes, long overdue. History cannot be erased, but we can live with it and have peace in our heart.
From Belgium: that was brilliant! You are in top form. And viva BELGIUM, we won our first 2 matches, so we've qualified for round 2! 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
Congratulations!
Nice meeting you
Juneteenth is a holiday, congratulations U.S. is about time. I'm proud of you.
To see Opal Lee celebrate her lifelong achievement gave me life! Thank you for your fight, madam!
LOL. Gosar...? Wasn't he the one who's family members were all part of a TV campaign promo AGAINST him ??
Yep, all 5 or 6 sibling I believe, parents declined any comments.
Shakespeare: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
Colbert: "So...Pheonix!"
The person honestly did not even realize the reporters were specifically asking about the heat wave
On Juneteenth, REPUBLICANS freed the slaves from their DEMOCRAT owners.
@@myemperor Ah 1865. Twas a different time. I wonder what the Democrat to Republican ratio was for Unite the Right in Charlottesville.
@@myemperor and we all learned about it in grade school, we also learned about ideological shifts and political changes over time. I personally recommend you read a book.
@@myemperor 14 out of 100 Republicans, which says everything about the supposed Lincoln Party REPUBLICANS.
"iT's A DRy hEat!" So's a toaster.
105 in AZ is not bad at all. It is a dry heat and it's nice. It's when it gets to 115 when it feels overwhelming.
"Give me your money. I'll build a wall." Didn't Steve Bannon need a PARDON from Mara-LARDO after attempting that GRIFT?
On fire, what a natural.🛎️🛎️🛎️
Thank you for the laughs all of you involved.
Happy (pre) - Juneteenth day, everyone!!!
Respect to all my friends and Loved ones who are represented by this day!
Although everything he said is true, it’s too damn hot in Texas for him to be roasting us like this.
But, you're getting a big, beautiful wall!!!
@@rebekahogle9021 a lot of us def don’t want it, and don’t want millions of people to go w/o power because of our state’s gov. failures.
lol
Y'all better keep an eye on Ted Cruz. He tends to flee for Cancun when the heat is on.
They should not be making fun of Texans right now.
Colbert is enjoying the live monologues so much! Adorable! :D That makes them even more enjoyable to watch.
I missed this. A live audience makes all the difference.
Hello
9:02 Texas governor wants _public donations_ to fund border wall? But ... but Ol' 45 said that _Mexico_ was paying for it! I'm sure I remember that.
Besides, ain't hardly nothin' left to do: _“The wall is almost complete, we just had to fix little sections, complete little sections.”_
Man I sure missed you being in front of an audience. That's when you truly shine.😁
Hello
I’m so thrilled the comedy shows stuck thru this period of Covid! This is wonderful to me...
Stephen is on a ROLL! Love it!
Lithuania also has two independence days. MANY countries do - and nobody is bring confused 👌👍
Lithuania is a beautiful country too!
Lithuania doesn’t have Trumpists tho, they aren’t the brightest, so it’s understandable they’d get confused.
It was exhilarating to watch Ms. Lee's reaction. And another important decision should be that we should officially call ACA as Obamacare, not only in honor of President Obama but also to remind repubs their scornful and deriding reference to Obamacare as some joke before and during the law's passage and more importantly their umpteenth attempts to kill it.
we should call it federal Romneycare, to drive home that they loved it when it was their idea.
You're soo funny Stephen!!! Much more laughter, and even tears from laughter now that you're living large again. So good to have you back in front of an audience; they send you energy, you send it back....cool!
Hello
I'm so happy he's back in the theater with a live audience!