Colbert Rips Fox News, ‘Fraudo Baggins’ and the Proud Boys as He Tees Up Jan. 6 Primetime Hearings
08.06.2022 - 17:17
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Stephen Colbert is very, very excited for the Jan. 6 committee hearings, which will air in primetime, beginning later this week. In fact, he’s so excited, he announced “The Late Show” will be going live each night just after they finish.“I don’t know about you, but I cannot wait for the Jan.
6 committee’s live hearings. On Thursday. In primetime,” Colbert said as he opened his Tuesday night monologue. “They’re destined to go down in the annals of live TV like the Watergate hearings, the moon landing and the time Walter Cronkite was swallowed by a python,” he continued, showing a photoshopped pic of the late newsman exactly as he described.
“It’s going to be an historic event, which is why ‘The Late Show’ will be going live. Right here, baby. After the hearings.
Thursday night. Come on. You can’t keep us down.
You go live, we go live. Come on. I’m tired already.
I am pre-exhausted.”Colbert then turned his monologue’s attention to who will and who won’t be covering the hearings live.“Here’s the deal: All the major news outlets — CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN – will be covering the hearings live while the Fox News Channel will stay with its usual primetime lineup,” he said.“Well, that’s actually good,” he said as some in the audience booed. “No, it’s actually good. We’ll hear directly from the people who planned the coup.