I attended last night’s taping and Otis was surprisingly super calm. With all the cameras, noise, and the crowd you would think he would be a little frightened but he was so adorable and calm. Loved the show!
I have a theory that online censorship is having a rapid effect on our language, creating the need for new terms on a regular basis, and that large language models will only exacerbate this trend. My children's children won't understand me, just like I barely understand my children.
@@edwardallenthree No, every generation makes their own slang, going far back in time LONG before the internet was ever a thing. It's a way to distinguish yourself from your elders, no conspiracy theories needed.
@@MonkeyAndChickenFunny thing is, that was never a slang word. A bunch of millennials made news articles worrying about being considered "cheugy" when it wasn't even a word being used by a single gen-z person.
Am I the only one who thinks of Jazz and Scat when hearing/seeing Skibidi? Also, kudos to the band for playing an Otis Redding tune. The best Soul artist of all time in my humble opinion. That's what I call a segway.
@Johnioan2 Everybody stutters one way or the other So check out my message to you As a matter of fact, I'm letting nothing hold you back If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you
As a gen x-er with a 12 year old, I needed this. She calls all her friends pookie too! I called my husband a beta as a joke and she very seriously said, “you can’t ever say that word again.”
@@markkostka6897I agree with you, I don’t care about how younger people think people should dress or speak. We should not place more value on what they think. Though we shouldn’t ignore them either. Family members and teachers in particular should know what they are saying, it helps us to better understand them and give them the guidance they need as they grow into adulthood.
But "pookie" is even older than we are!! Maybe your husband reacted that way because you pushed him to the ground and put your paw on his chest while you said it?!
My husband tormented our 15 year old son with adding "Skibidi Rizz" on to everything for a day. But even though he's barely still Gen Z, he hates it for being overused, they grow old so quickly!!
HAHA meanwhile I don’t have a kid and my first thought was “she looks comfortable bouncing him and he looks comfortable there, wonder if that’s her kid?” 😆 clearly my frame of reference for “comfortable with kids” is way off
@@andromedatonks60 😆 let me tell you the first time my cousin handed me her baby I also held him like that and looked around like omg ...who thought handing this to me was a good idea? ROFL! Now I have a five year old that thinks I'm a jungle Gym. 😑 😆
My job has me regularly interviewing college kids. I'm in my early 30s. It has really opened my eyes to how old just one decade difference can make you. Made worse by the fact that I evidently look like I'm in my mid 20s. So when a college kid meets me and assumes in just a few years older, I inevitably get lost when they say stuff well beyond my years and ask them to explain wtf they're saying.
Ask them politely what language is their first language. If the say English or look confused just say, obviously English isn’t. Come back when you graduate your English As A Second Language class. Preferably with honors. Might take a few years.
Dear Teachers, this one’s for you! Anytime a kid says “Diddy” respond with, “Yeah, but diddy do his homework?” Wield your power to render their slang obsolete.
I had a feeling, when he described the age bracket for Generation Alpha, that Eliana Kwertler would be considered ancient and not be able to translate everything. She did not disappoint! Actually, she never does.
Me and my friends used the word "pookie" on a regular basis during college in the LATE NINETIES. lol!! To mean the SAME THING too!!! 😂 No one made it up recently. We also regularly said "totes" and many other things that I noticed these younglings saying. I find it hysterical that they think they've invented these words.
Eliana is an absolute gem she should be on more often loved that bit. Think Otis has a bright future as well played the part of a drooling toddler to perfection.
There are 5 stages of slang: 1st stage: "God that is so dumb." 2nd stage: You start saying it ironically. 3rd stage: You start to like it. 4th stage: Oh no 5th stage: It's lit, fam.
Linguists have long known that you can put kids who have only started to learn to speak together, and if they don't speak the same language, they will start to develop novel patua. That said, an unusually large proportion of terms considered "gen alpha slang" are particularly unoriginal. Quite a lot of them are things that have been part of Black English Vernacular for decades.
@@feoman This Gen Xer watched baby boomers hold political power with a death grip for too many years and got quite irked. Effing Trump is still trying to throttle the reins of power. That makes me feel like I am losing my religion.
Calling him "Boots" is a really subtle dig. There was a Roman emperor who had the nickname "Boots" from the time he was a kid, he is known by that name, Caligula...
Gen X-er here with a 16 and 18 year old. I tried to use “riz” casually and was very quickly informed that I was not allowed to use that word ever again.
My 15 year old closely polices my use of any slang. It is only allowed in the house and only in jest (at certain unpredictable times, to which I cannot completely predict of course…she is of course 15 and cannot tell me those rules as she does not know them herself 🤪).
Steven really does have one of the best bands in late night. I miss seeing John Baptiste, but he's doing great on his own, and Lewis and the band are really killing it on Colbert❤ And as someone who's almost thirty With gen z and jen alpha, nieces and nephews I feel this segment so hard. These kids just be making sounds and I don't get it 😭
My 15 year old closely polices my use of any slang. It is only allowed in the house and only in jest (at certain unpredictable times, to which I cannot completely predict of course…she is of course 15 and cannot tell me those rules as she does not know them herself 🤪). But they did seem to forget some crucial terms that have taken up permanent residence in our house: poochina, punati, and everything seems to be “giving” all the time, not sure what it’s giving because no one is giving me anything, including their dirty dishes from their room.
Next time, she does that, tell her „that this is not much giving for you, she may wash them themselfes“. Every generation needs to be tought, that live turns from being giving as a kid, to be giving as an adult. They must be tought in small steps, starting with washing the dishes ….. if not life teaches the through instant and hard lessons.
Nope, my son had him beat by a mile! For any parent your own is the cutest baby ever. Why else would anyone ever raise a baby while they vomit and poop on you??
I’m sitting here taking notes. My nephew is 10 and it’ll be hilarious to pull an UNO reverse card on him someday as I’ll know what he’s saying behind his parent’s backs. 😂
I remember the first time I heard teens refer to me as “that lady” (as in “that lady heard you say that (something funny / embarrassing)” - I was at a fruit stand in Astoria, circa age 31 😭
My gen Z daughter just popped her head out and asked what I was watching when she heard all the gen alpha speak 😂😂😂 Edit- just shared with her and she is cringing so hard 😂
They got a youth correspondent named Otis? His name makes him sound like he just made it through the Oregon trail for that interview.😅 Cute baby though.
LOL! That is the most baby lookin baby I've ever seen! Props to the prop department!
Otis did look real, didn't he?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
His head was the size large beachball, RIP his mom. #thatsnomoon
@@THEmatthewone Ouch! I didn't think of that. Now I can't not think of it. 😞
But... does Otis get a union scale appearance check? He had no lines, so.... ;-P
I think Otis said it best when he just sat and drooled.
The size of that noggin, tho. Skibidi gyat.
I attended last night’s taping and Otis was surprisingly super calm. With all the cameras, noise, and the crowd you would think he would be a little frightened but he was so adorable and calm. Loved the show!
Did they say whose kid he actually was?
@@baylinkdashyt lol nope
Awww😊, he’s a lil cutie!
Absolute unit of a baby
Megamind
Gyat
I was thinking that too!!! 😂 kid is either going to be in football or wrestling! Lol 🤣
@ZamBowskie there is a WWE wrestler named Otis--he's also a healthy boy!
How many units in degrees skibidi is that?
Otis is a natural. Really connects. 👍
Of course now that Colbert has brought all these up, they are now ancient and new slang will need to be invented. A tale as old as time.
Cheugy.
@@MonkeyAndChicken Dude, don't be trippin'. That's Genz slang. ;)
I have a theory that online censorship is having a rapid effect on our language, creating the need for new terms on a regular basis, and that large language models will only exacerbate this trend. My children's children won't understand me, just like I barely understand my children.
@@edwardallenthree No, every generation makes their own slang, going far back in time LONG before the internet was ever a thing. It's a way to distinguish yourself from your elders, no conspiracy theories needed.
@@MonkeyAndChickenFunny thing is, that was never a slang word. A bunch of millennials made news articles worrying about being considered "cheugy" when it wasn't even a word being used by a single gen-z person.
Otis behaved more reasonably on stage than Trump does.
Well, he is more mature and intelligent after all.
Of course, he's more mature and much better behaved.
And everything Otis said made sense.
Big Fact!!
@@wickettunes4781 He's a better dancer too.
OTIS! I’ve seen his weight listed on elevators before. What an adorable chonker!
Looks like a fast food baby.
Am I the only one who thinks of Jazz and Scat when hearing/seeing Skibidi? Also, kudos to the band for playing an Otis Redding tune. The best Soul artist of all time in my humble opinion. That's what I call a segway.
LOL careful saying "scat" out loud... 😂 Damn sure don't use it in a Google search lol😅
Guess the song (exactly 30yrs ago...) :
[Pre-Chorus]
Ski-bi-dibby-dib yo-da-dub-dub, yo-da-dub-dub
Ski-bi-dibby-dib yo-da-dub-dub, yo-da-dub-dub
I'm the Scatman
Ski-bi-dibby-dib yo-da-dub-dub, yo-da-dub-dub
Ski-bi-dibby-dib yo-da-dub-dub, yo-da-dub-dub
@Johnioan2
Everybody stutters one way or the other
So check out my message to you
As a matter of fact, I'm letting nothing hold you back
If the Scatman can do it, brother, so can you
@@THE_BaconPirate have missed that one. Will not risk the algorithm.
@@feresmourali5783 LOL
As a former Ohioan, we denounce and _do not_ claim DJ Trance
As a gen x-er with a 12 year old, I needed this. She calls all her friends pookie too! I called my husband a beta as a joke and she very seriously said, “you can’t ever say that word again.”
That's not very sigma of her
I can't believe people care so much about tweens telling adults what words are correct. As if their condescension is meaningful to worry about.
@@markkostka6897I agree with you, I don’t care about how younger people think people should dress or speak. We should not place more value on what they think. Though we shouldn’t ignore them either. Family members and teachers in particular should know what they are saying, it helps us to better understand them and give them the guidance they need as they grow into adulthood.
But "pookie" is even older than we are!! Maybe your husband reacted that way because you pushed him to the ground and put your paw on his chest while you said it?!
My husband tormented our 15 year old son with adding "Skibidi Rizz" on to everything for a day. But even though he's barely still Gen Z, he hates it for being overused, they grow old so quickly!!
Eliana Kwartler was BRILLIANT!! ... More Eliana and more Otis, please ☺☺👍👍
could tell it wasn't her kiddo the second they handed it to her 😆. That was a new aunt terrified of breaking the baby grab if I've ever seen one lol😂
HAHA meanwhile I don’t have a kid and my first thought was “she looks comfortable bouncing him and he looks comfortable there, wonder if that’s her kid?” 😆 clearly my frame of reference for “comfortable with kids” is way off
@@andromedatonks60 😆 let me tell you the first time my cousin handed me her baby I also held him like that and looked around like omg ...who thought handing this to me was a good idea? ROFL! Now I have a five year old that thinks I'm a jungle Gym. 😑 😆
@@story3877 Pretty sure that baby could break her. Otis looks strong 💪
I definitely felt that when holding my nephew
I'm here for the Eliana arc🤣
Otis is so freaking adorable!!!!
Am I alone in thinking his head was both adorable and GIGANTINORMOUS?
Otis: a star is born. What a cutie.
Damn, Otis is chill as hell 😂
My job has me regularly interviewing college kids. I'm in my early 30s. It has really opened my eyes to how old just one decade difference can make you. Made worse by the fact that I evidently look like I'm in my mid 20s. So when a college kid meets me and assumes in just a few years older, I inevitably get lost when they say stuff well beyond my years and ask them to explain wtf they're saying.
Ask them politely what language is their first language. If the say English or look confused just say, obviously English isn’t. Come back when you graduate your English As A Second Language class. Preferably with honors. Might take a few years.
Eliana is happenin' that was a laugh riot in time
Dear Teachers, this one’s for you! Anytime a kid says “Diddy” respond with, “Yeah, but diddy do his homework?” Wield your power to render their slang obsolete.
I had a feeling, when he described the age bracket for Generation Alpha, that Eliana Kwertler would be considered ancient and not be able to translate everything. She did not disappoint! Actually, she never does.
Me and my friends used the word "pookie" on a regular basis during college in the LATE NINETIES. lol!! To mean the SAME THING too!!! 😂 No one made it up recently. We also regularly said "totes" and many other things that I noticed these younglings saying. I find it hysterical that they think they've invented these words.
The "YOUTH CONVERSATION" was SURPURB!!!😂
@radiogoodguy6287 Actually it was bussin'
This is bussin…me to an early grave
😂
I live in northern West Virginia, right next to a couple state lines.
I often get on the local regional transport and am bussin’ to Ohio.
THIS is why my kids refuse to watch Colbert🙄
As soon as Eliana entered, I asked myself how is it possible that she understood the kids' current slang. I loved her meltdown 😂
I was disaapointed. At first at her for not teaching us Gen-Z slang, and then at myself for actually believing that it is even possible.
@@SuperheroRockstar😂😂😂
Gotta love Eliana's smile.
it's bussin for sure
She's so beautiful!!!
Meanwhile, Otis popped straight outta 1948… that FACE!
That baby is adorable!!
Looking forward to Otis keeping us informed
Eliana is an absolute gem she should be on more often loved that bit. Think Otis has a bright future as well played the part of a drooling toddler to perfection.
There are 5 stages of slang:
1st stage: "God that is so dumb."
2nd stage: You start saying it ironically.
3rd stage: You start to like it.
4th stage: Oh no
5th stage: It's lit, fam.
Otis was the best part of that segment. We need more Otis.
Bussin' and ate definitely existed as slang with those definitions before Gen Alpha got old enough to get together to decide on new slang.
Linguists have long known that you can put kids who have only started to learn to speak together, and if they don't speak the same language, they will start to develop novel patua. That said, an unusually large proportion of terms considered "gen alpha slang" are particularly unoriginal. Quite a lot of them are things that have been part of Black English Vernacular for decades.
@@verdatumYeah, like finna. I keep hearing that as some new term. I'm 47, and it was used when I was their age! Probably even before.
@@verdatum- Some of those terms come from the gay community.
Thanks for acknowledging the existence of Gen X!
Oh stop being so bloody needy.
We in Gen X don't even acknowledge us, lol 😂
You, Sir/Ma'am, are not real GenX.
Real GenX sees itself being ignored and says: "Whatever." 😊
@@feoman This Gen Xer watched baby boomers hold political power with a death grip for too many years and got quite irked. Effing Trump is still trying to throttle the reins of power. That makes me feel like I am losing my religion.
He's a boomer. Well, on the cusp.
Otis is the cutest baby! ❤
Calling him "Boots" is a really subtle dig. There was a Roman emperor who had the nickname "Boots" from the time he was a kid, he is known by that name, Caligula...
Little boots... from his little Caliga soldiers sandals ❤... no wonder he was nuts
That's not a baby. That's a little person.
Pookie is hella old school, bringin it back! I'm 31 and I tried to bring it back starting at the age of 14 lol I wasn't cool enough tho I spose ;P
Pookie was Garfield's stuffed tou
It needs to be updated. "Democracy Dies in a Mountain of Ad Revenue"
I know what you did there! That’s really good. The times in the post are selling our country down the road.
Inquiring Minds need to know: Whose baby is Otis??? He’s so cute!!! And sturdy!!! :)
Hahahaha that's great. He's a fat baby. And that's okay! Although I do like "sturdy" as a descriptor much more.
I love to listen to the Colbert… Can we also please have videos of the band playing music during commercials!?!?
Otis got him a big ole head.
She's so awesome! Please give us more of her!
God no, she's terrible, horrible over-acting, so unnatural. Kills every joke.
Being considered an "elder" it is best to pretend to be deaf and dumb; saves a lot of energy.
What you need is a middle school teacher in the writers room.
Otis t-shirt for hurricane charity: take our money
Gen X-er here with a 16 and 18 year old. I tried to use “riz” casually and was very quickly informed that I was not allowed to use that word ever again.
My 15 year old closely polices my use of any slang. It is only allowed in the house and only in jest (at certain unpredictable times, to which I cannot completely predict of course…she is of course 15 and cannot tell me those rules as she does not know them herself 🤪).
I'm pushing 60, and I wore a "(negative rizz)" T-shirt to stagehand on a college dance recital, and got great notices for it.
@@kristinnelson-patel442 Sounds like they handed you some ammunition for embarrassing them!
My name actually is Rizzy, but everyone calls me Riz for short... its funny how my name blew up
@@yesican4458 in addition to the fact that it is several parts of the generic name for a medication for... damn it I don't remember now.
😮 G I A N T B A B Y 😮
😂LOL yeah no, she's just a tiny little waif of a girl. 😂 "Fun sized" If you will... 😅
Otis should be a new recurring character.
She's amazing!
Otis made the segment. :D
i am skibidying of old age
The "Youth Correspondent" bit was awesome. She's definitely had some stage & acting training 'chz she nailed it.
😎👍
Steven really does have one of the best bands in late night. I miss seeing John Baptiste, but he's doing great on his own, and Lewis and the band are really killing it on Colbert❤
And as someone who's almost thirty With gen z and jen alpha, nieces and nephews I feel this segment so hard. These kids just be making sounds and I don't get it 😭
As a 5th grade teacher, I hear it all day! Skibidi! And skibidi rizz! But not skibidi ohio rizz....no one should aspire to have skibidi ohio rizz. XD
My 15 year old closely polices my use of any slang. It is only allowed in the house and only in jest (at certain unpredictable times, to which I cannot completely predict of course…she is of course 15 and cannot tell me those rules as she does not know them herself 🤪). But they did seem to forget some crucial terms that have taken up permanent residence in our house: poochina, punati, and everything seems to be “giving” all the time, not sure what it’s giving because no one is giving me anything, including their dirty dishes from their room.
Next time, she does that, tell her „that this is not much giving for you, she may wash them themselfes“. Every generation needs to be tought, that live turns from being giving as a kid, to be giving as an adult. They must be tought in small steps, starting with washing the dishes ….. if not life teaches the through instant and hard lessons.
Otis. Cutest baby ever.
Nope, my son had him beat by a mile! For any parent your own is the cutest baby ever. Why else would anyone ever raise a baby while they vomit and poop on you??
Louis busting into “Hard To Handle” in honour of the original Otis (Redding!) was a serious musical flex. 👌
skibidy reminds me of my grandfather who used to say "hot diggity"
OMG Otis is adorable but Eliana looked like she was really struggling to hold him 😂
Leo Tolstoy's book was called "War and Peace", Bob Woodward's book is now simply called "War!"
Yes, we can say goodbye to peace in the 21st century.
As a native Michigander, the definition of "Ohio" checks out.
She's ancient? I'm a fossil compared to her!!!! 😂😂😂
Move over Steve! It's Otis!
Oh my cuteness!!!!!! Otis, you're a star! Oh, and yeah... Eliana, you're cute too.😄
Late Night's graphics department did a great job on that baby.
Looks like Otis is trying to eat his whole arm.🤤
He looks like he's already eaten someone else's.
Eliana finally hit the wall, congratulations on your third cat lol
Well Eliana, how do you want to get the applications?
Dayam. Baby Otis's head is gyat.
She's a writer? She's freaking great! Give her a raise and more segments!
More Otis! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I love Eliana, she’s so damn cute!
Otis rocks!
Otis got the big brain going already. Kid looks like a movie mastermind that's been turned into a baby.
"Skibidi" sounds like something Dr. Seuss would say.
Or Uncle Remus: "Skibidi doo dah, Skibidi yay!"
Otis is a BIG dude.
That baby's head was Brainiac-sized
Otis is a cute kid.
💙Eliana 😂😂😂😂
Otis' poor mom...
"Never trust anyone over 30" is still fully in operation.
So who was Otis Daddy? Where`s Mom? Stephen!
I’m sitting here taking notes. My nephew is 10 and it’ll be hilarious to pull an UNO reverse card on him someday as I’ll know what he’s saying behind his parent’s backs. 😂
How is she still single (asks a guy who’s been single for seven years)
Eliana crushed it.
Generation Alpha sound like the Mutants from The Dark Knight Returns.
The point of this is if you want to avoid brain rot stay off Tik Tok.
Eliana, woah, crazy coincidence, I'm single too!
I remember the first time I heard teens refer to me as “that lady” (as in “that lady heard you say that (something funny / embarrassing)” - I was at a fruit stand in Astoria, circa age 31 😭
Otis can’t even get the thumb out of his mouth yet.
Otis got a big ol' head...people clapping because she brought out a baby, that's so Ohio.😂🤣
My favorite part was that she was somehow single!!! I just don't have the words on how shocking that is!!! She is so beautiful.
She is -awesome-
I needed this😂
Eliana is a rising star! This show and the Colbert Report have produced same excellent talent!
My gen Z daughter just popped her head out and asked what I was watching when she heard all the gen alpha speak 😂😂😂
Edit- just shared with her and she is cringing so hard 😂
They got a youth correspondent named Otis? His name makes him sound like he just made it through the Oregon trail for that interview.😅 Cute baby though.
A young person with one of the oldest names. Hi Otis
Otis keeping all the secrets 😊