“Quick question, how was your weekend?” said Stephen Colbert at the top of the Late Show monologue on Monday. “I definitely had an interest, because one of my staff had an unforgettable one.” From there, Colbert analyzed all the previously unknown details about the seven Late Show executives arrested at the Capitol last week while filming a comedy track for the January 6 panel hearings. “Here’s what happened,” he explained. “Last week, I heard from my old colleague Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Triumph offered to go to DC and interview some members of Congress to highlight the Jan. 6 hearing. I said, “Sure, if you can persuade someone to agree to talk to you, because — and please do not take it as an insult — you are a puppet.” Colbert confirms that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress have agreed to speak with Triumph, author Robert Smigel’s long-time comedy — and he and the Late Show crew spent two days filming offices across from the Capitol building. . “They went through the security clearance,” he said, and fired all Wednesday and all day Thursday, invited to the offices of members of Congress who were being interviewed. It was at the end of their second day on Thursday, when “Triumph and mine were approached and arrested by Capitol police,” he continued. “Which, in fact, is not so strange. The Capitol police are much more careful than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason. “If you do not know why, I know which news network you are watching.” According to the host, everyone just “did their job”, was “very professional” and “very calm”. The Late Show crew “was arrested, processed and released – a very unpleasant experience for my staff, a lot of paperwork for Capitol police, but a very simple story.” “Until the next night, when some people on TV started claiming that my puppet group had ‘revolted’ in the US building,” he said, referring to the absurd comments of Tucker Carlson and others. “First of all, what?” said Colbert. “Second of all, eh? Third, it was not in the Capitol building. Fourth, and I’m shocked that I have to explain the difference, but an uprising involves disrupting the legitimate actions of Congress and screaming for the blood of elected leaders, all to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. This was a first-class puppet show. This was hitchhiking with the intention of being ridiculed. Abuse of an old piece of Conan. “ Colbert said it was “predictable” that people like Carlson would make such outrageous claims. “They want to talk about something other than the January 6 hearings or the real uprising that led to the death of many people and the injury of more than 140 police officers,” he said. “But finding any equivalence between the rioters who invade our Capitol to prevent the counting of ballots and a dog that eats cigars is a shameful and tragic insult to the memory of all those who died and humiliates the police. of the Capitol showed that terrible day “. “But who knows, maybe there was a huge conspiracy to overthrow the United States government with a rubber Rottweiler,” he joked. “We all know the long history of lawlessness puppetry. The Great Muppet Caper, the Fraggle riots of the 1980s. “ “In this case, our puppet was just a puppet who made a puppet,” he assured viewers. “And sad to say, so much has changed in Washington that Capitol police have to stay on high alert all the time because of the January 6 attack. “And as the hearings prove clearer every day, the responsibility for this real uprising falls on Putin’s puppet.” There is no word yet on when the track that Triumph and the crew shot last week will air on the Late Show, but when it does, it is sure to be one for centuries. For more, listen to Robert Smigel on the podcast The Last Laugh.
