Late night hosts Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon went in on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh again on Friday, after he received a nomination from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The nomination came after psychologist Christine Blasey Ford testified to the committee he had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers.
For hours, she spoke tearfully about her trauma, and for hours after that, Kavanaugh angrily rejected the accusation.
In an unexpected twist, Colbert likened the judge’s nomination, after everything that had happened, to a video of a seal hitting a kayaker on the head with an octopus.
Stephen Colbert used a bizarre video of a seal using an octopus to slap a man on a kayak as he tried to explain the deeper issues of Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination
The Supreme Court hopeful testified against allegations of sexual assault on Thursday, and while many found his accuser, Dr Christine Blasey Ford, to be credible, he was still awarded a nomination
The clip, filmed in New Zealand, shows a group of friends kayaking when suddenly a seal jumps out of the water with an octopus in its mouth, and slaps one man across the face with the tentacled creature.
Colbert said it was the ‘perfect metaphor’ for what had happened.
‘You see, the seal represents the patriarchy, and it’s using the octopus – aka, Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court seat – to attack the kayaker – or the women of America,’ he said.
The late night comic said he had taped his monologue on Thursday, so did not actually know what had happened – but he said his metaphor worked either way.
In the case Kavanaugh was rejected: ‘the seal is Kavanaugh’s accusers, the kayak is Brett Kavanaugh, and the octopus is justice’.
Colbert said the nomination was the patriarchy slapping the women of America in the face with an octopus – or Brett Kavanaugh’s pending Supreme Court seat (left). The comic also revealed he had pretaped the monologue, and said he had done another one for in case the nomination did not go through, which would have been Kavanaugh’s accusers slapping him in the face with an octopus, which this time represented justice (right)
As he was forced to admit his pre-taped monologue, Colbert couldn’t help but slide another Kavanaugh joke in.
‘I actually taped this monologue yesterday, which means I can’t tell you what happened regarding Brett Kavanaugh, which, based on his drinking, seems to be something I have in common with Brett Kavanaugh.
‘I go to sleep. I go to sleep. I don’t black out. I go to sleep,’ he added, mocking the SCOTUS nominee for telling the committee on Thursday he had not ever passed out from drinking, but had ‘fallen asleep’.
Fallon chose not to focus as much on Kavanaugh, but did go in on Trump’s reaction to the hearing.
Fallon chose to go in on the reactions of President Donald Trump instead of hitting Kavanaugh directly, and mocked his lack of vetting process and a spelling mistake made on his Twitter account this week
Using rapper Common, Fallon read out tweets posted by the President this week in response to the hearing, as the finishing touch to Common’s rap.
The song mocked Trump’s vetting process for Kavanaugh and his concern the Democrats were laughing at him.
Stormy Daniels got a mention, as did a spelling error he made earlier in the week, where he accused the Democrats of making ‘false acquisitions’ against Kavanaugh.
The Supreme Court nominee will be forced to wait a week before his nomination is put to the full senate for confirmation, as Republican Senator Jeff Flake demanded an FBI investigation into the claims of sexual assault made against Kavanaugh.
Flake threatened to scrap the nomination if he did not get his way, and the FBI have now been given no longer than a week to investigate on a ‘narrow scope’.