On CBS’ Late Show Monday, Stephen Colbert addressed the arrests of members of his manufacturing staff at a U.S. Capitol workplace constructing final week. Among these arrested was Robert Smigel, the longtime Saturday Night Live and Late Night author who has appeared on Colbert’s present in character as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog on a handful of events.
Colbert started his monologue by explaining what occurred, outlining what his crew had been as much as, the place they had been and who they spoke to, emphasizing they’d permission to be there. “After they completed their interviews, they had been doing a little last-minute puppetry and jokey make-em-ups in a hallway, when Triumph and my of us had been approached and detained by the Capitol police — which truly isn’t that shocking,” Colbert continued, including that the Capitol police had been far more cautious after the Jan. 6 incident.
“The Capitol police are far more cautious than they had been, say, 18 months in the past, and for an excellent cause. If you don’t know what that cause is, I do know what information community you watch,” Colbert stated.
He added, “The Capitol police had been simply doing their job, my employees was simply doing their job, everybody was very skilled, everybody was very calm. My staffers had been detained, processed and launched. A really disagreeable expertise for my employees.”
