--- --- # Watch Stephen Colbert Assign Simon & Garfunkel Songs to Presidential Candidates by [Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly Jan 27, 2016 4:10 PM UTC by [Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly Jan 27, 2016 4:10 PM UTC Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently received good reviews for [a new campaign ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug) that uses the Simon & Garfunkel song “America.” To be fair, Stephen Colbert used a segment of _The Late Show_ Tuesday night to give other 2016 presidential candidates their own Simon & Garfunkel songs. “Paul Simon’s got a huge category of immortal songs. His music, I think, could work for any candidate,” Colbert said. According to Colbert’s plan, the scandal-tarred Chris Christie would release an ad with “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” while the low-polling Martin O’Malley and Rand Paul get “The Sound of Silence” and “Homeward Bound.” It took Colbert a few tries to nail the best Paul Simon song for Donald Trump, but eventually he nailed it: “Still Crazy After All These Years.” Watch the clip above. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/27/colbert-simon-garfunkel-presidential-candidates) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://ew.com) Stephen Colbert Assigns Folk Songs To Presidential Candidates ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4195754/watch-stephen-colbert-assign-simon-garfunkel-songs-to-presidential-candidates/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4195754/watch-stephen-colbert-assign-simon-garfunkel-songs-to-presidential-candidates/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Assign Simon & Garfunkel Songs to Presidential Candidates","datePublished":"2016-01-27T16:10:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:18.281Z","description":"\"Nothing says 'youth vote' like a song from 1965\"","url":"https://time.com/4195754/watch-stephen-colbert-assign-simon-garfunkel-songs-to-presidential-candidates/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","U.S.","stephen colbert","us","Bernie Sanders","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Christian Holub / Entertainment Weekly"}],"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/4195754/watch-stephen-colbert-assign-simon-garfunkel-songs-to-presidential-candidates/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Assign Simon & Garfunkel Songs to Presidential Candidates"}}]}] ```