Ava DuVernay and Stephen Colbert Spill Details About Obama's Secret Birthday Bash on 'Late Show'

According to Ava DuVernay and Stephen Colbert, President Obama really knows how to throw a party.

September 7, 2016

Given that Ava DuVernay's fresh OWN series Queen Sugar premiered this week, the critically acclaimed director and Stephen Colbert had plenty to discuss on Tuesday's Late Show. However, they couldn't help but wax poetic about their shared experience of throwing down with President Barack Obama for his super secret birthday party at the White House in early August. Totally understandable.

In fact, that little White House throwdown was the first time DuVernay and Colbert had met. "Paul McCartney leaned over to me at one point in that party and said, 'It doesn't get better than this,'" Colbert said. "And I was like, you should know how good things can get!" But just how good did things get at this party none of us were invited to? Allow DuVernay to break it down.

"At some point a dance battle starts between Usher and Janelle Monáe," DuVernay remembered. "And you're watching it and you're thinking, can this be? So they're dancing and they're going at it. I'm like, it can't get better than this." Then, of course, it does. "On the periphery, you see POTUS and FLOTUS getting into it, like, it can't get better than this," DuVernay added. Then, of course, it gets even better. According to DuVernay, Colbert hopped into the battle himself, shortly before McCartney and Chance the Rapper joined him.

"It was a peak feeling," Colbert admitted. "When Janelle Monáe put her hat on my head and we started trading moves, I had a flirtation with cool." Indeed you did, Stephen.