“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:
The Hungry for Power Games. I loved the eyeglass casket.
Which shows the pathetic state of “wildly successful” modern literature today. The Hunger Games, the FoxNEWS in literature for the brain dead masses.
Still, I figure Colbert intends to entertain us with a number of installments of the Reaping.
President Obama made a similar joke in early July. (I was there in person to see it.)
“You know, we’ve got some healthy competition in the Democratic Party, but I’ve lost count on how many Republicans are running for this job. They’ll have enough for an actual Hunger Games.” -POTUS
Yeah, except it’s all clowns with Nerf guns and wiffle ball bats tapdancing in their clown shoes to the tune of Yackity Sax played at 33-speed on a gramophone operated by a chimpanzee wearing a Spongebob diaper.