Jeb Bush and Stephen Colbert have been messing with each other online this week, in light of some confusion over Bush’s appearance on the premiere of Colbert’s Late Show next week.
The Republican presidential candidate sent an email to supporters asking for a $3 minimum donation for a chance to win a VIP ticket to the taping.
“I think the contest is a great idea,” Colbert said. “But here’s the thing: No one from Jeb’s campaign asked if this was okay with me to raise money off my first show. Where’s my cut of that sweet three bucks, Governor? Huh?” So Colbert launched his own contest—“Jeb Bush on the Stephen Colbert Late Show Raffle!”: a minimum $3 donation to the Yellow Ribbon Fund gives you the chance to win two tickets to the first Late Show taping and Colbert asking Bush a “non-obscene question of your choice.”
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So then Bush hopped on Twitter with a video saying he thought the host was Amy Schumer.
And Schumer did the same:
LIFE's Best Convention Photos: The GOP
Scene at the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.
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Scene at the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.
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Go-go girl and delegates during the 1968 Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida.
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Arizona politician and future U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (left) confers with Nebraska's Richard Herman during the 1964 GOP National Convention in San Francisco.
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Ronald Reagan at the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco.
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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Not originally published in LIFE. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (center) During the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Martin Luther King Jr. leads a demonstration calling for a strong Civil Rights plank in the GOP campaign platform.leading Negro demonstration for strong Civil Rights plank in COP campaign platform
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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Scene during the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Scene at the 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California.
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Left to right: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, his wife Mamie, Richard M. Nixon and his wife, Pat, at the 1956 GOP National Convention, San Francisco, California.
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Scene at the 1956 Republican National Convention, San Francisco.
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Chairman of the Republican National Committee Arthur E. Summerfield on the telephone during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Control booth, 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Bertha Baur, a prominent figure at conventions for decades and a long-time member of the Republican National Committee, in an elephant hat at the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Pennsylvania Governor John Fine (left) and Arthur Summerfield chat in private during the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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Republicans hold an informal conference in a kitchen during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Vice-presidential nominee Richard Nixon and his wife Pat talk with photographers during the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Scene at the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.
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Scene at the 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.
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Scene at the 1948 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania delegates to the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago pull cold beers from a tub of ice after a caucus meeting.
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Delegates listen to Herbert Hoover during the 1944 Republican National Convention in Chicago.
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A model wears a bathing suit in a fashion show at Ohio senator Robert Taft's headquarters during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia.
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A young Republican rests on a sofa in the Hotel Adelphi during the 1940 GOP National Convention in Philadelphia. ("Van" is Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, long considered a front-runner for the GOP nomination; instead, the Republicans nominated Indiana's Wendell Willkie, who lost the election to the Democratic incumbent, FDR.)
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