“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Thursday mocked Vice President JD Vance over his “unique approach” toward his private meeting with Pope Leo XIV after he revealed that the two discussed online dating at the Vatican this week.
“Dude, know your audience! The guy is celibate! Good lord!” Colbert declared.
Colbert turned to a clip of Vance who, in a podcast with The New York Times’ Ross Douthat, claimed that he gave his two cents on “basic dating behavior among young people” during his chat with the Holy Father.
“I think a lot of this is the dating apps are probably more destructive than we fully appreciate,” said Vance in the video.
Colbert swiftly cut away from the footage.
“I’m going to say JD Vance’s views on this may not be as valuable as he thinks considering the last dating app he was on was Raymour & Flanigan,” quipped Colbert in a nod to last year’s bizarre Vance couch jokes.
Vance continued to spill more of his dating take in the clip, sharing, “I think part of it is technology has just, for some reason, made it harder for young men and young women to communicate with each other in the same way.”
Colbert joked that dating was “so much simpler” in “the old days” before dropping an imaginary pick-up line from a different era.
″‘Nice to meet you. I just gave your father my finest goat. Let’s go make children,’” he said.
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