Jake Gyllenhaal, Stephen Colbert Scare Up Voters With ‘Night Before Election Day’ Skit (Video)

“You know I can see right up your nightgown, right?” Gyllenhaal tells a Scrooge-like Colbert in homage to “A Christmas Carol”

It ’twas the night before election day, and Jake Gyllenhaal could see the results were “swinging left”… because an ebullient Stephen Colbert refused to tie the front of his nightgown.

The “Nightcrawler” star joined the “Late Show” host on Monday night as he put a political twist on Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.”

Colbert, doing his best Ebenezer Scrooge impression, wakes up with three ghosts next to his bed: pictures of GOP congressmen Mitch McConnell, Orrin Hatch and Chuck Grassley. He then quickly scurries off to make sure he hasn’t missed election day, stopping to bother a local “kid” — Gyllenhaal — for some answers.

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