Appearing a guest on Thursday's edition of CBS's The Late Show, openly-gay actor Tituss Burgess used the platform to inform the audience that, if given the chance to give the commencement speech at his alma mater the University of Georgia, he would urge graduates to "get these terrorists out of office" who supported the now-vetoed religious freedom bill.
Host Stephen Colbert broached the subject that Burgess was a Georgia native and when he shrugged it off with disappointment, Burgess mentioned that he's expressed desire to "come down there and do the commencement speech."
Colbert then whipped out a graduation cap and offered Burgess the chance to give a preview of what he would tell his fellow Bulldogs if he had been invited.
After giving his introduction to "graduates of 20 whatever year it is," Burgess whined that they've "graduated from a shady school that has the name of a shady state that tried to pass a shady law."
Getting to the heart of the matter, he demanded that they stop partying and instead "vote in these primaries and these elections and get these terrorists out of office because you are literally — you're inactivity, your inability to protect human beings is killing us."
With the left-leaning crowd hooting and hollering in approval, he concluded: "So, put Beyonce on pause as devastating as that would be and march into these primaries and help save our countries. That is what I would say."
Of course, Burgess completely ignored the fact the Republican Governor Nathan Deal vetoed the bill under pressure from both pro-gay groups and many of the large corporations that are so often derided by the left for corporate greed and campaign finance donations.
The relevant portion of the transcript from CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on April 7 (into April 8) can be found below.
CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
April 8, 2016
12:32 a.m. Eastern
STEPHEN COLBERT: I understand that you are from Georgia, right?
TITUSS BURGESS: Yes. [LAUGHTER]
COLBERT: Why that? I'm not sure why that answer, why it like that?
BURGESS: Georgia Georgia — I’m from Georgia. I went to University of Georgia and I recently — umm, well — I recently tweeted them because I think they wanted me to come down there and do the commencement speech.
COLBERT: Really? I heard about this.
BURGESS: Yeah, well, I would say to the graduates.
COLBERT: Hold on —
BURGESS: You did? Oh.
COLBERT: Alright. Give it a shot. If you were to give the commencement speech —
BURGESS: If I were to give the commencement speech —
COLBERT: — at the University of Georgia.
BURGESS: — at the University of Georgia.
COLBERT: Ladies and gentlemen, Tituss Burgess.
BURGESS: Where do I look?
COLBERT: Where do you look? This thing. Look at that guy right over there.
BURGESS: Dear graduates of 20 whatever year it is when I come down there, you just graduated from a shady school [LAUGHTER] that has the name of a shady state. That tried to pass a shady law. I think you need to come out of the bars and go and vote in these primaries and these elections and get these terrorists out of office because you are literally — you're inactivity, your inability to protect human beings is killing us. So, put Beyonce on pause as devastating as that would be and march into these primaries and help saver our countries. That is what I would say. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [COLBERT GIVES THUMBS UP]
