During Monday night’s “Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert recounted his own “moment of human contact” with the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner.
Colbert’s speech, which he performed as his conservative Republican character, was a cheeky defense of then-President George W. Bush’s presidency and the invasion of Iraq. It wasn’t well received.
In fact, Colbert said on Monday’s episode, no one in the front row or the dais spoke to him after—except Scalia.
“I thought, ‘Don’t me make you love you, old man,’ ” Colbert said. “So, I will forever be grateful for that moment of human contact he gave me. Justice Scalia, I salute you.”
Watch the video, from CBS, below: