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Late night hosts used President Donald Trump's government shutdown, which has currently been in effect for 18 days, as fuel for comedic material on Monday night.

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00:00Some things never get better and never change. Look at me, for instance. I'm horrible and

00:06I'm only getting worse."

00:08President Donald Trump's government shutdown is now 18 days in, and the late-night hosts

00:12are doing their best to see the funny side of the situation.

00:15On Monday night's Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host said in his Closer Look segment,

00:19"...our political system feels like it's at a breaking point. It was always fragile,

00:24but then Donald Trump came along and wrecked it. He's like the guy at a party watching

00:27a game of Jenga going, take that one. No, that one."

00:31And then finally someone says, you know what, if you think it's so easy, you try it.

00:34And then he just lights the Jenga tower on fire.

00:36There is no better test of a political leader than this, the NBC host continued.

00:40Can you keep the government running? And Trump is now failing this test for the third time

00:45in his presidency and realizing you don't get rehired after that. He's like a stoner at a pizza place.

00:51Meyers went on to explore the real-world consequences that Trump's border wall obsession

00:55has created, including hundreds of thousands of federal workers going without pay, food stamps

01:00being cut, rental assistance lost and tax refunds being delayed.

01:04Look, sometimes you take a job that ends so badly you have to change your name, Meyers said.

01:09For example, you take a job as Donald J. Trump and you leave it as prisoner 567891.

01:14Over on CBS's Late Show, Stephen Colbert focused on Trump's obsession with walls and wheels

01:20being tried and tested inventions that never get old and that will never go away.

01:25It's possible that he's bringing up walls and wheels because he wants to combine the two.

01:29That would be exciting, Colbert began.

01:31A short mobile wall that could slide back and forth to repel immigrants where it's needed.

01:38And if that concept sounds vaguely familiar…

01:41I'm being told we have some footage of a prototype. Here's the refugee. And there's the wall.

01:46And, oh, rejected him!

01:48On ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host promised to employ a different government worker affected

01:52by the shutdown on his show each night until the issue is resolved.

01:56Nearly 800,000 federal employees are working without pay and that is Donald Trump doing

02:01what Donald Trump does best, not paying the people who work for him.

02:04Over on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, host Trevor Noah also discussed the government

02:08shutdown, saying it could go on for years. The host acknowledged that the longer the

02:12shutdown goes on for, the worse it is for the country, and compared the situation to

02:16leaving your pet cat alone for a weekend and for an indefinite amount of time.

02:21They escape and then they leave. And 17 days into this shutdown, let's just say that

02:26America's cats are starting to stink.

02:29Noah also found a way to circle back to comments Trump made in 2018 about Haiti and Africa being

02:33shithole countries.

02:35The shutdown has gotten so bad that at national parks, Americans are pooping on the ground.

02:42Who's the shithole country now?

02:46CBS's Late Late Show also kicked off its first episode of 2019 by addressing the shutdown,

02:51with host James Corden joking.

02:53We've just spent the last two weeks not working, so pretty much like the federal government,

02:59we've just…

03:01The host also pounced on Trump's comment that he can relate to the federal government

03:06employees that are financially struggling as a result of the shutdown.

03:09No one's more relatable than Donald Trump, right? He's just a regular, working-class

03:16family man.

03:18Digging deeper into Trump's claim that he can relate to the thousands of people now

03:22unable to pay their bills, Corden jokingly defended the commander-in-chief, saying,

03:26To be fair though, maybe he can relate.

03:28Trump's filed for bankruptcy six times, right? He's actually built his entire career on

03:33not being able to pay bills.

03:36And over on The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon wished his audience a happy 2019, before bringing

03:41up the government shutdown also.

03:43Right now it's tough to say what will last longer, the government shutdown or your neighbor's

03:46Christmas decorations. I don't know.

03:49He then capitalized on another topic that's on everyone's lips these days, Netflix's

03:53psychological thriller Bird Box.

03:55Democrats have a plan. They're going to make Trump wear one of those blindfolds from Bird Box

03:59and just tell them there's a wall. Don't take it off! Don't take it off!

04:03To watch full clips of late-night hosts reacting to the ongoing government shutdown, head to THR.com.

04:08For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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