Despite being a devout Catholic and all, Stephen Colbert is celebrating the Festival of Lights this year, and has invited all of us to celebrate with him.
On Sunday, coinciding with the first night of Chanukah, Colbert released a video on YouTube announcing that there will be Chanukah element to the next seven nights of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“Chanukah is the time of year to gather with family and friends – and media personalities – to celebrate love, friendship and whatever it is you share with that guy from work who you don’t really know that well who showed up to your Chanukah party anyway,” Colbert says. “Didn’t he realize you just added him to the Facebook event to be polite? He’s meshuggeneh.”
After a few rounds of “battle dreidels,” and describing how the festival of lights is really “the candle industry’s Black Friday,” Colbert invites us all to join him for “the next seven magical nights, when each evening, you’ll be visited by a new Hanukkah emissary, who will join you in celebrating the holiday.”
“It’s kind of like A Christmas Carol, but without that ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ garbage,” he continues. “That being said, I make no promise that you won’t be visited by other ghosts unrelated to Chanukah. I don’t know what you’ve done in your life. You could be a terrible person.”
Happy Chanukah.
