Stephen Colbert is an expert at pulling a Rachel Maddow preamble

This is what happens when you bury the lede.
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Johnny Lieu
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Stephen Colbert is an expert at pulling a Rachel Maddow preamble
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This is what happens when you bury the lede.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is still being mocked for what many found to be an infuriatingly-long, 22 minute preamble in the lead up to revealing Trump's 2005 tax returns on Tuesday.

Naturally, Stephen Colbert had to try his own hand at "Maddow-ing" as it shall now be known.

He hilariously introduced a time-tested joke during The Late Show on Wednesday.

The punch line? It's right after this commercial break.

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Johnny Lieu

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