Colbert Doubles Down on Comey’s ‘86’ Reference to Food Service: I Was a Bartender, You Would ‘86’ a Drunk Customer

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COMEY: “We stood at it — looked at it, trying to figure out what it was, and she had long been a server in restaurants and she said, ‘You know what I think it is? I think it’s a reference to restaurants when you would 86 something in a restaurant.’”
COLBERT: “Like off the menu.”
Comey: “Yeah. I said, ‘No, I remember when I was a kid, you would say 86 to get out of a place. ‘This place stinks, let’s 86 it.’”
COLBERT: “I was a bartender, you would 86 a customer if they were getting drunk. Like, ‘Let’s 86 them, give them a low-proof alcohol or something like that.’ Yeah.”