Colbert moaned that the special was “the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” adding, “I was tying my tie at 10:30 and I went, ‘Oh, he took Ohio. Oh, well, we expected that. He took it by 11 points. Wow! That’s not expected.’ And then over my guests’ shoulders, people kept holding up signs that said, ‘Florida, Iowa, Nebraska.'” He revealed that numerous fake commercials were prepared, but “none of them were appropriate once we knew we were playing to an audience of the condemned. Our audience was sobbing openly. And those are people who work for me, like my cameramen.” – READ MORE
