Stephen Colbert gets to talk about someone other than Donald Trump (for the most part)
In last night’s Late Show monologue, Stephen Colbert focused not on Donald Trump, but rather James Comey — though Trump earned a few mentions.
Rather than continuing to avoid talking about his Monday night monologue that inspired #FireColbert, Stephen Colbert took some time during his Wednesday night opener to say some things about what happened.
Check out the video below, with the usual caveat about some words not being safe for work. Nothing bleeped out, though:
It seems that Colbert understands why he earned some outcry on Twitter, and the fact that he said that he would change how he expressed his insults but not the intention can be read a couple different ways. The first is that the joke in question might not have gotten aired in the first place, and that he’ll be more careful in the future not to go there. The second is that the joke just would have had a slightly less terrible word used. Hopefully, it’s the former, not the latter.
Now, for some reading material on FBI Director James Comey, who earned most of Colbert’s jokes last night. The Washington Post has the full transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing. Last night, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Andrew Rosenthal condemning Comey’s saying he felt “mildly nauseous” about his impact on the election.
As for health care (again), the Post has updated its list of Republicans in the House who may or may not vote for the bill, which is happening today. To make a long story short, if more than 22 of them vote against the bill, it dies (again). The newspaper’s list as it currently stands has 18 opposed, but 30 more somewhere in the middle.
Presumably Colbert will know about the results either as his show tapes or in time to make some fixes to the script. We’ll just have to see.