--- title: Stephen Colbert Jokes He Has Brett Kavanaugh's Day Planner description: Stephen Colbert presented a joke day planner "written" by Kavanaugh to prove his innocence as sexual misconduct rumors fly. canonical: https://time.com/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-25T15:00:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:04.248Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Jokes He Has Brett Kavanaugh's Day Planner og:description: "Stayed home to solve Rubik's cube (sober)" og:url: https://time.com/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdae119a74b7bca67/69893b127cdbac0ed7d5e032/colbert-on-kavanaugh.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1616 og:image:height: 909 og:image:alt: colbert.on.kavanaugh og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Jokes He Has Brett Kavanaugh's Day Planner twitter:description: "Stayed home to solve Rubik's cube (sober)" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdae119a74b7bca67/69893b127cdbac0ed7d5e032/colbert-on-kavanaugh.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert Says He Got a Hold of Brett Kavanaugh's 1982 Day Planner > Sponsored content. 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This [evidence](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-calendar.html), however, provided nothing but amusement for Stephen Colbert, who presented a joke day planner “written” by Kavanaugh with hilarious results, poking fun, of course, at the idea that a high school boy might have actually recorded his binge-drinking and partying. One entry read “Stayed home to solve Rubik’s cube (sober),” while another read “Party last night was awwwwsome! I heard. I didn’t go.” The clip wraps with a final entry that shows Kavanaugh reminding himself to “save calendar as future evidence.” Watch the full video of Colbert mocking Kavanaugh’s defense in the clip below. > [](https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1044396650834255872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Says He Got a Hold of Brett Kavanaugh's 1982 Day Planner","datePublished":"2018-09-25T15:00:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:04.248Z","description":"\"Stayed home to solve Rubik's cube (sober)\"","url":"https://time.com/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdae119a74b7bca67/69893b127cdbac0ed7d5e032/colbert-on-kavanaugh.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdae119a74b7bca67/69893b127cdbac0ed7d5e032/colbert-on-kavanaugh.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"colbert.on.kavanaugh","caption":"Colbert spoofs Kavanaugh calendars","creditText":"Colbert on Kavanaugh calendars","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5405720/stephen-colbert-on-kavanaugh/","name":"Stephen Colbert Says He Got a Hold of Brett Kavanaugh's 1982 Day Planner"}}]}] ```