So Stephen Colbert opened his monologue on Monday, after members of the production team of “Late Show” were arrested last week in the US Capitol. “This was a first-class puppet show,” Colbert said. Colbert explained that members of his staff, including “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog,” a puppet voiced by comedian Robert Smigel, went for two days to the congressional office across from the Capitol, a comedy section related to her auditions. January 6th. The host said staff went through the security clearance and were invited to the interviewers’ offices – something that is important to note as Triumph “works according to Dracula’s rules,” according to Colbert. On the second day of filming, the crew was arrested by U.S. Capitol police. “Which is not really surprising. The Capitol police are much more careful than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason,” Colbert said. “If you do not know why, I know which news network you are watching.” On Friday, U.S. Capitol police said in a statement that officers “spotted seven people, unaccompanied and unidentified in Congress, in a corridor on the sixth floor” at the Longworth House office building in the Capitol. Capitol police added that these individuals were charged with illegal entry. CBS said in a statement on Friday that its production team interviews with members of Congress were “authorized and predetermined.” Colbert went on to say on Monday that the US Capitol police were simply doing their job as well as their staff and that everyone was “very professional” and “very calm”. “A fairly simple story until the next night, when some people on TV started claiming that my puppet group had ‘revolted in the US Capitol building,’” he said. “First of all … what? Second … eh?” The host explained that there were big differences between an uprising and what his staff did, which he described as “teasing with the intention of making fun of”. “It is predictable why these TV interlocutors are talking like this on television. They want to talk about something different from the January 6 hearings about the real uprising that led to the deaths of many people,” Colbert said. “But the equivalence between riots that invaded our Capitol to prevent the counting of ballots and a toy dog sniffing cigars is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of all the dead.” Colbert completed the narrative with a satirical lesson in the history of “puppetry-lawlessness.” “” The Great Muppet Caper “, the Fraggle riots of the 1980s … How do you think King Friday came to power in the builders’ neighborhood?” he said. “In this case, our puppet was just a puppet who made puppet shows, and it’s sad to say that so much has changed in Washington that Capitol police must remain vigilant at all times because of the January 6 attack. “And as the hearings prove clearer every day, the responsibility for this real uprising lies with Putin’s puppet.” CNN’s Oliver Darcy contributed to this report
