--- title: Ryder Cup Heckler Interrupts Stephen Colbert's Monologue description: After being heckled by the Ryder Cup heckler, Stephen Colbert invites him to give doing the opening monologue a swing. canonical: https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-04T15:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:16.690Z og:title: Watch a 'Heckler' Interrupt Stephen Colbert's Monologue og:description: He previously disrupted the Ryder Cup og:url: https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a 'Heckler' Interrupt Stephen Colbert's Monologue twitter:description: He previously disrupted the Ryder Cup twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a ‘Heckler’ Interrupt Stephen Colbert With a Donald Trump Joke  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 4, 2016 3:02 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 4, 2016 3:02 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4494764/the-new-politics-of-late-night/) got some competition that he hadn’t bargained for when he found himself being during his opening monologue on _The Late Show_. A heckler was none other than [David Johnson who made headlines when he heckled pro golfers at the Ryder Cup](http://time.com/4513731/ryder-cup-american-heckler-putt/) to the point that he was pulled inside the lines to make the putt they missed, with a $100 bet on the line. In what might be the most legendary fan move of all time, he sank the putt that [the likes of golfers Rory McIlroy and Henrik Stenson](http://time.com/money/3013422/rory-mcilroy-golf-young-players/) had missed. It looks like besting the pros gave Johnson a taste for more heckling challenges, because he told Colbert that he could start the show with a better monologue. Colbert playfully retorted that his political humor wasn’t exactly the same as golfing, noting that making “[jokes about Trump](http://time.com/4495013/trevor-noah-harry-potter-donald-trump-voldemort/) are a lot harder than making a putt.” Johnson’s response? To do both. The Ryder Cup disrupter not only reenacted his infamous putt, but did it while poking fun at the Republican presidential nominee. Watch the entire escapade unfold below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/"},"headline":"Watch a ‘Heckler’ Interrupt Stephen Colbert With a Donald Trump Joke","datePublished":"2016-10-04T15:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:16.690Z","description":"He previously disrupted the Ryder Cup","url":"https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television","stephen colbert","the late show","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4517880/stephen-colbert-monologue-heckler/","name":"Watch a ‘Heckler’ Interrupt Stephen Colbert With a Donald Trump Joke"}}]}] ```