The DNC is trucking alongside, and the third night time of the conference was in all probability essentially the most extremely anticipated but. Democratic VP nominee Kamala Harris gave her acceptance speech, and we additionally bought to see addresses from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The late-night hosts, as they have been doing all week, weighed in with their ideas, and although Stephen Colbert‘s Late Show is the one one doing dwell commentary every night time, that did not cease The Daily Show with Trevor Noah from providing an important lesson to Harris’ racist critics.
After displaying a handful of clips of Republican pundits showing throughout TV to make claims that Harris is not “Black sufficient,” Noah gave them a historical past lesson on why, precisely, her Blackness should not be up for debate. “Is she Black sufficient to get kicked out of a restaurant within the days of Jim Crow South?” Noah requested. In the meantime, on the Late Present, Colbert supplied his ideas on each Harris’ and Obama’s speech, at one level getting emotional at simply the sight of Obama and cheering, “He is actually there, it is every thing I miss! Obama, the Structure, a president, haircuts!”
DNC 2020: How to Watch the Democratic National Convention
See what else the late-night hosts needed to say about night time three of the DNC under.
The Each day Present with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah spared no prisoners ripping into conservative figures like Dinesh D’Souza, Rush Limbaugh, and extra who’ve appeared on TV to say that Harris “is just not African American.” He responded to D’Souza’s remark that Harris is descended from “the plantation itself” relatively than somebody like Frederick Douglass, saying, “You already know who was additionally the descendant of a slave proprietor? Frederick Douglass. So the man you simply tried to make use of for example of somebody who’s tremendous Black can be, by your metric, not black sufficient.”
Noah went on to supply a prolonged clarification the so-called “one-drop rule,” which asserts that somebody is Black if they’ve even one Black ancestor. He additionally known as out the way in which conservative media did the identical factor to Obama till he truly bought elected president. “Your Blackness as an individual isn’t questioned in failure,” Noah stated. “However in success, it will get put beneath the microscope.”
He supplied one final mic drop on the finish of his section: “I suppose that is the silver lining for you, Kamala. Fox Information could also be questioning your Blackness now, however greatest imagine, the second you step foot into that White Home with Joe Biden and also you make a number of choices they do not like, belief me, you may be Black as might be.”
The Late Present with Stephen Colbert
Colbert stored the identical high-energy commentary he’s had all week as he broke down all the key speeches of the night time, beginning with Clinton, who he referred to greater than as soon as as “the winner of the 2016 fashionable vote.” In response to Clinton’s insistence that “America wants a president,” Colbert offered his personal interpretation of what she was saying: “Can any of you consider one? I can. Here is a touch, she’s bought two thumbs and bites them to maintain from continuously screaming.”
He additionally enthusiastically celebrated his personal cameo on the conference when a clip of his 2019 interview with Nancy Pelosi was featured in her spotlight reel. “I bought extra air time than AOC,” Colbert stated. “I am a part of American historical past as a result of I spoke to Nancy Pelosi and I used to have the ability to sit inside three toes of senior residents!” He additionally could not get sufficient of Obama’s speech, and even gave him a brand new nickname. “Bear in mind No Drama Obama? Properly, now he is Trash Speak Barack.”
The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon
Over on the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon went by way of the checklist audio system of the night time and observed a typical theme of the lineup. “That is like Trump’s total checklist of enemies,” he stated. “The White Home should have restrained him tonight like he was Hannibal Lecter.” When speaking about Clinton’s speech, Fallon joked, “She was the one speaker to kick issues off by slowly placing out a cigar and saying, ‘effectively, effectively, effectively.'”