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CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert didn’t wait long Monday night to discuss a strange topic everyone was waiting to discuss: the fact that many members of his production team, including the voice behind a very famous doll, were arrested last week. in Washington at the Longworth House office building and charged with illegal entry.
“How was your weekend?” Colbert greeted his audience in the studio. “I certainly had an interesting one, because some of my employees had a memorable one.”
The presenter made a brief summary: Last week, a group of Colbert employees – along with Robert Smigel, who voiced the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, which appeared in “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” – traveled to the District to interview members of Congress. to highlight the hearings in the investigation into the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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“Democratic and Republican congressmen have agreed to talk to Triumph. He is a two-party puppy. He’s so neutral, he’s castrated, “Colbert said. “Triumph and my people filmed for two days in the offices of Congress across the street from the Capitol building. They went through a security check, were shot all day Wednesday, all day Thursday, invited to the offices of the congressmen they interviewed. “
On Thursday night, the group was doing some last-minute puppet games in a corridor, Colbert said as they were approached and detained by Capitol police. (This echoed a statement released by CBS on Friday when the news went public. The Washington Post reported that police said the building was closed to visitors at the time and that the group had previously been directed to leave.)
“Capitol police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago – and for a very good reason,” Colbert said. “If you don’t know the reason, I know which news network you’re watching.
The host said that everyone was “very professional” and “very calm”.
“My employees were detained, processed and released. Very unpleasant experience for my staff, many documents for the Capitol Police. But a pretty simple story, “he said.
“See you next night,” Colbert continued. “When several TV people started claiming that my puppet squad had ‘carried out an uprising’ in the US Capitol building.” Colbert did not give names, but the quote came from Tucker Carlson of Fox News.
“First, what?” Secondly, huh? Third, they were not in the Capitol Building, Colbert said. “Fourth – and I’m shocked to have to explain the difference – but the revolt involves violating the lawful actions of Congress and howling for the blood of elected leaders, all to prevent a peaceful transfer of power.
“It was a first-degree doll,” he added. “They were crazy with the intention of being deceived. Misappropriation of an old part of Conan. It’s really Conan’s fault. “
Colbert said such quotes were “predictable.”
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“They want to talk about something different from the January 6 hearings about the actual insurgency that killed many people and injured more than 140 police officers,” he said. “But to make some kind of equivalence between rebels storming our Capitol to prevent the counting of ballots and a toy dog chopping cigars is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of all those killed. And that indecently belittles the service and courage that the Capitol police showed on that terrible day.
Colbert noted that the incident occurred on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate hack, so could were a conspiracy. He joked that it was similar to “puppet lawlessness” such as “The Great Capers of Muppet” and the “Fraggle riots of the 1980s.”
“But in this case, our doll was just a doll doing puppet things. “It is sad to say that so much has changed in Washington that the Capitol police must be constantly on high alert for the January 6 attack,” he said. “And as the hearings prove more and more clearly every day, the blame for this real uprising lies with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s puppet. “
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