Stephen Colbert Aims To Soothe Election Anxieties, Takes Jab At YouTube Pranksters

The number one trending video on YouTube right now is a clip from Stephen Colbert’s live Showtime special, in which the late-night host reacted to the 2016 election results last night over the course of a comedic — though, at times, deeply uncomfortable — one-hour broadcast.

Titled Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going To Clean Up This Sh*t?, the liberal host tried — and often failed — to put an entertaining veneer on the evening’s happenings, welcoming guests like Bloomberg commentators Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, the actor Jeff Goldblum, comedian Jena Freidman, and radio host Charlamagne Tha God.

The clip that’s garnering the most attention on YouTube, however, is Colbert’s rambling and emotional concluding monologue. In addition to bemoaning our nation’s divided and “poisonous” politics, Colbert — seizing a moment of levity — listed several issues that he said all Americans could agree on. All work email sucks, Colbert proffered — regardless of one’s thoughts on Hillary Clinton’s private email server — and Kit Kat

bars should be eaten in segments, not bitten into like other chocolate bars.

And finally: “If you make a living pranking people on YouTube, all Americans ask that you walk slowly into the ocean, then put that on Snapchat,” Colbert said. Check out his plea in full below: