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Colbert on speaker votes: ‘Pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude’

Stephen Colbert: “It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat.”
Stephen Colbert: ‘It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat.’ Photograph: YouTube

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert’s first monologue of 2023 coincided with the first day of the new Congress, in which Republicans took over the House and Kevin McCarthy tried and failed three times to become its speaker. “It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat,” the Late Show host said. “And tonight, I’ll peel back the many layers of the stupidity” in a segment titled “Ass Onion: A Kev’s Out Mystery.”

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