Stephen Colbert admits he "cried a lot" watching the Biden-Harris Inauguration

The Daily Beast

“Well, you did it,” he said last night on his live Late Show, according to The Daily Beast. “You survived the last four years and your reward? A shiny, new, old president.” After admitting that he “cried a lot” over the course of the day, Colbert said: “It was extremely emotional and not entirely in the way that I expected. Because I have to tell you, I have zero gloat in me. There is no end zone dance in me. What I feel is enormous relief.” Colbert added: "Today felt like a return to normalcy, even though so much of the day was abnormal....And the weirdest feeling is when something is clearly abnormal and someone tries to tell you it’s not. What we saw today was the opposite of gaslighting. Today, we were reality-boarded, and I am here for it.”

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