{"id":2424201,"date":"2026-05-20T02:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2424201"},"modified":"2026-05-20T02:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:41:17","slug":"colbert-reveals-nsfw-2016-election-night-bit-that-was-scrapped-as-trump-surged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/colbert-reveals-nsfw-2016-election-night-bit-that-was-scrapped-as-trump-surged\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert Reveals NSFW 2016 Election Night Bit That Was Scrapped As Trump Surged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stephen Colbert used Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d to revisit some of the segments that never made it to air ahead of his final program this Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And it included a very cheeky bit on election night in 2016 about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that was scrapped at the last minute as it appeared she would lose to GOP rival <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSo, why do we have all this stuff that never made it to air? A lot of reasons,\u201d Colbert explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cFor one, sometimes the world just doesn\u2019t cooperate. Like during the 2016 presidential election, we were doing a live special on Showtime, no commercial breaks, and as the results started to come in, it became clear that we had planned for a different outcome,\u201d the comedian continued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe were so sure that The New York Times prediction needle was right, we hired a bunch of naked male models with the words, \u2018I\u2019m with her,\u2019 painted on their full plump butts,\u201d Colbert recalled, referring to the pro-Clinton slogan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSadly, all of those models had to be put down,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Colbert added that producers initially \u201ctried to save the bit,\u201d revealing: \u201cAnd as the outcome became clear, we repainted their butts to say, \u2018We\u2019re fucked.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Watch from the 8-minute mark here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert used Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Late Show\u201d to revisit some of the segments that never made it to air ahead of his final program this Thursday. And it included a very cheeky bit on election night in 2016 about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that was scrapped at the last minute as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2424202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,363287,22653],"class_list":["post-2424201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Colbert-Reveals-NSFW-2016-Election-Night-Bit-That-Was-Scrapped.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424203,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424201\/revisions\/2424203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}