Late-night comedian Stephen Colbert is teasing Democratric presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who got his own ice cream flavor earlier this week.
“Here’s the thing — if Bernie doesn’t land a prom date, he can still do what the rest of us do and eat his pain,” he joked on CBS’s “The Late Show” Wednesday evening.
{mosads}Colbert said the “Bernie’s Yearning” flavor “sounds like a soft-core porno or a scandalous May-December romance.”
“It’s a clever idea, but I’ve got some news for Ben,” he added of Ben Cohen, the treat’s creator and co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
“In reality, that top 1 percent generally doesn’t have a lot of chocolate in it,” he added, referencing the flavor’s “1 percent” chocolate in mint ice cream. “I don’t make the world, I just describe it.”
Colbert also argued it is unfair the Democratic presidential candidate has his own flavor while other White House hopefuls go without.
“The problem is that this delicious treat is a violation of the well-known ice cream equal time law,” he said. “Legally, Ben has to give equal churn time to all the other candidates by making a flavor for each of them.”
Colbert suggested “Martin O’Mallomar” for Martin O’Malley, giving Sanders’s Democratic rival a marshmallow-heavy flavor.
He then floated “Whatever Flavor You Want This to Be” for Hillary Clinton, needling the Democratic front-runner’s perceived political opportunism.
Colbert also had some ideas for the Republican presidential field.
The comic pitched “Caramel Fiorina” for Carly Fiorina. He then suggested “Life Begins at Confection,” tweaking Mike Huckabee and his staunch anti-abortion platform.
Cohen announced Monday that he had created “Bernie’s Yearning” in honor of Sanders’s White House run. He is producing a limited run of the flavor without Ben & Jerry’s official involvement and offering it in a contest online.