It’s tough to tell if Stephen Colbert is even trying to be a comedian anymore. His late-night show seems more of a rejected CNN program than anything else.
On Wednesday night, Colbert went on a grueling four-and-a-half-minute monologue on the Russia collusion investigation and the president’s recent call for the Department of Justice to look into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign.
“Maybe, if you didn’t collude … If you did collude, well, that’s a pretty big potato. So Trump summons Rosenstein and Wray to the White House and says, ‘You’ve got nothing. Can I see what you got?’ And here’s the thing. They’re going to do it. They’re going to show the evidence to congressional Republicans, and no Democrats. But it’s not political,” said Colbert.
He continued, “It’s all perfectly innocent, according to Trump lawyer and [the] man seeing the evidence against Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani. Rudy says — Rudy says that Trump, the target of the investigation, didn’t call the meeting. He called the meeting in his official capacity as president. Yes, Donald Trump is kind of wearing two hats in this investigation. One is president, and the other is criminal.”
Regardless of Colbert’s feelings toward Trump, this individual’s comedy is failing big time. His late-night monologues are no longer meant to entertain; they are meant to indoctrinate.
He tries to explain to viewers why Trump is the biggest, meanest villain in the world — and comes off like a madman.
Colbert makes a person pine for the days that late-night programs were actually funny.
Now they are just excuses to call the president a “criminal.”
PopZette editor Zachary Leeman can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter.
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