“The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” brought the Hunger Games — a wildly successful novel series and movie franchise about a dystopian American future in which children battle to the death in an arena for their district’s pride — to 2016 on Tuesday. Host Stephen Colbert dubbed the presidential election: The Hungry For Power Games.
In the words of the Capitol: 2016 today, 2016 tomorrow, 2016 forever.
Colbert played a version of Hunger Games host Caesar Flickerman, the outlandish Panem Capitol resident who narrates the arena’s carnage.
“May the margin of error be ever in your favor,” Colbert told the tributes (candidates).
But Colbert recently lost one of his tributes, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. And in this role, Colbert even had a canon to mark his departure from the (political) arena.
Watch the video, from the Capitol, below:
