Colbert says Bill Clinton's new 'youthful' approach has 'got him in trouble'

Stephen Colbert joked that former President Bill Clinton's attempt to appeal to a younger audience with his speech to the Democratic National Convention was precisely the reason for his impeachment.

“Then it was time for former President Bill Clinton, who we hear apparently made some last-minute changes to his remarks,” the “Late Show” host said as he announced his segment on Clinton to a live audience at Chicago's Auditorium Theater on Wednesday night, referring to reports that Clinton had rewrote his original speech for the convention.

“According to a staffer, after the first night, he ripped up the draft of the speech he'd been working on … and decided he needed to start over with a funnier, more youthful approach. That's cool, although a 'youthful' approach also got him in trouble in the 1990s,” Colbert joked. “He's not here, is he? He's not here? OK.”

Colbert's comedic jab was aimed at Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, who worked as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The entire Clinton-Lewinsky scandal was adapted as a storyline for the third season of Ryan Murphy's drama series “American Crime Story.”

Colbert then went on to address Clinton's assessment of Trump's age. The former president said that at 78, he is the oldest man in his family in four generations, but still younger than Trump.

“It's true, it's true, that's a fact. It's a fact that he's younger. It's just hard to tell because Clinton is aging, of course, and Trump looks like he's sleeping on one of those 7-Eleven hot dog scooters. 'Comfy as a bug.'”

At the end, Colbert applauded Clinton, who accused Trump of being self-centered.

“He's like one of those tenors who opens up before they go on stage, like I did, to open up his lungs by saying 'I, I, I, I, I,'” Clinton said. “When Kamala Harris is president, every day will start with you, you, you, you.”

“That's right. He's right; Trump starts with me, me, me, me, Kamala starts with you, you, you're RKF Jr. starts,” Colbert said before making silly, cartoonish noises to imitate what he thought Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sounded joking. “It's a childish joke.”