Welcome to The Late Show I'm your host stepen colar and it is you know that is oh yeah you know that electricity in this room it is it is debate night Eve okay so don't forget to put out some milk and cookies for Santa and then give him two minutes for a rebuttal this actually might be the only debate between Harris and Trump and there's lot riding on it heading into the matchup down it's in Philadelphia down in Philly the goal for Harris is to connect with the thin slice of undecided voters yes once again a presidential election will come down to undecided voters you know their slogan we can't pick a slogan Harris's Harris's tactics her tax she's got a different plan her tactics for taking down Trump are a little different than Biden's because unlike Joe Biden she has not focused on portraying Trump Trump as a fundamental threat to democracy okay that's interesting okay also unlike Joe Biden she's decided not to spend large portions of the debate staring hauntingly into space like an ancient dog seeing a ghost in the quarter of the room that no one else can see Harris remember Harris Harris is taking her debate prep uh pretty seriously she's been holed up for five days in a Pittsburgh Hotel doing highly choreographed debate practice sessions wow that's exciting I'm really looking forward to that choreography I have some points to make about inflation I have some policy I have some points I have some points to make about inflation I have some policies andig hey infrastructure hey I go this way yeah try you got go this I go this way uhhuh I don't know Trump on the other hand doesn't believe in preparing for the debate So within his team evidently preparations are pointedly not called debate prep but policy time he is a 78-year-old toddler don't worry Donald it's not debate practice it's policy time do you need to go policy you don't I tell you what one why don't we all why don't we all just just just go policy just to try before we head over to the debate as part of policy time sometimes AIDS sit at a long table opposite him and bat questions back and forth so he's not prepping other people are prepping near him they're hoping he gets a contact prep it's a strategy it's a strategy known as trying to get your teenage boy to wear deodorant hey honey do you smell something weird oh yeah I wonder what that is you know I heard Jack haror wear something called Old Spice he's pretty cool for his part Trump has resisted any attempts to get him ready for the debate notably refusing to practice with podiums well of course not he prefers the late great Hannibal Lecter technically the podium is where you stand the Lecter is where you talk there you go head into the debate Harris has picked up tons of support including one surprising endorsement because on Friday Dick Cheney said he will vote for kamla Harris well wow golly well I'll be when I heard that news you could have knocked me over with a shotgun to the [Applause] face channy announced his decision and statement that read in part we each have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution that is why I will be casting my vote for vice president kamla Harris stirring words not to be outdone not to be outdone George W bush released his own statement a watercolor of a Pomeranian jugging features just doesn't have anything to say doesn't have the time to take a stand Harris is also getting a boost from the people who really matter corporations oh which reminds me all hail sky dance may your glorious Reign Over Paramount L 10,000 eons oh hell 10,000 eons are until we receive a slightly higher bid now let us do the dance of the sky the sun rises the sun sets but it never sets on David Ellison our spice Lord we're working on it now last week more than 90 Business Leaders endorsed Harris in a letter including James Murdoch son of Fox News medium ogul rert Murdoch how dare you James how can you do this to your father just a few months after he was so happily at his fifth wedding James how could you do this to me how am I supposed to explain this to fifth Mommy D I'm Bor with this one give me another there one in the bin Harris has also gotten the most important endorsement of all and that's cash the campaign just announced that it raise $361 million in August giving Harris a $110 million Edge over Trump I am pleased to announce an incredible New Edition of the beautiful Trump Bible for just $110 million that includes folks that includes a signed and numbered photograph of me coveting my neighbor's wife this new addition is not endorsed by Lee Greenwood but it is endorsed by me Penwood Harris say really really that's too far that's it we found it okay Harris's fundraising Hall is especially impressive because it came mostly from just ordinary folks including a reported 1.3 million firsttime donors 1.3 1.3 million that's pretty impressive well uh uh to those 1.3 million first-time donors now that you they've donated they get to experience democracy's greatest privilege a thousand more texts every day oh hold on what's going on here oh no it's Stacy from act blue they found my burner phone flush this place this is fun um uh Rolling Stone you know Rolling Stone magazine they just dropped a new article called what if Trump wins the chaos and lawlessness of the first term could pale in comparison to what comes next just when you think it couldn't get worse it will reminds me of the poorly received sequel Predator to now he's racist RAC a racist Predator he doesn't want every skull damn according to the article in his second term Trump's enemy list continues to grow the tally even includes late night comics who's pissed him off really wow did you hear that incredible wonder who he's talking about apparently Trump wants to convince authorities to declare somehow illegal anti-trump material broadcast by Saturday Night Live Jimmy Kimmel and Steven coar yes thank you finally I made an enemy list I mean obviously there's no guarantee I'll be arrested but it's an honor just to be nominated now no doubt it'll all be decided this weekend in Los Angeles whoever wins the m for best talk show we'll be sent to a camp and the goog goes to so to my old colleague John Stewart I just want you to know I voted for you of course if John wins he's only incarcerated on Monday so Trump held a rally in Wisconsin this weekend where he stuck to his core platform of making up the craziest lies you've ever heard here's some absolute nonsense about Public Schools comma support States being able to take minor children and perform sex change operation take them away from their parents perform sex change operation and send them back home can you imagine you're a parent and your son leaves the house and you say Jimmy I love you so much go have a good day in school and your son comes back with a brutal operation and you say you say Jimmy what happened and Jimmy says Mama I'm so scared the principal got on the PA and said report to the cafeteria for sex change and Salsbury steak as a parent as a parent let me ask you as a parent can you imagine that well you're going to have to cuz I'm making all this up now I'm I like the grip and you got to do this sometimes you got this you got that and you got that you know I know we do a comedy show here and you know all that and it's fun but sometimes uh it's time to get serious here at the lead show we focus on only the major stories and I rarely Dain to dip my toes into the frivolous churn of celebrity falal however I just became aware of an incident that frankly cannot be ignored and that's that while hanging at Sylvester Stallone's house guy Fier was mistaken for a bartender and was told to get back to work come on come on I thought this was America for Pete sake what part of this man's face says I'm a bartender other than everything here's what happened straight from the sauce covered lips of Mr meatball himself Jim I'm standing there in a denim jacket and I'm just kind of looking around and in the cigar room I'm looking around and this lady comes in and goes lose a jacket get get going she thought I was there to work she thought I was a bartender a bartender a bartender Madam may I remind you this isn't just any Municipal worker of flavor toown you're talking to the damn mayor this guy guy is the magnate of a restaurant Empire stretching all the way from the Cancun Airport to the bogot Columbia Airport Madam you do that again you do that one more time he could legally put you under flavor arrest you know what that means they're going to blck you in a basement to get flavor boarded with donkey sauce we got a great show for you tonight my guests are Jim Parson and Natasha Rothwell from how to die alone and when we come back I take a look at the latest celebrity endorsements some of which get pretty close to home s around [Applause] [Music] a [Music]