Stephen Colbert on Monday spoke about the arrest of his production team by United States Capitol police last week and jokingly said they were criminals in a “first-rate doll”.
Seven members of the “Late Night” squad were arrested Thursday night at the Longworth House office and charged with illegal entry. CBS said the production team is doing a comedy segment with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and is filming pre-arranged, licensed interviews with members of Congress.
According to the network, the team was arrested while filming a booth and other objects in the hallways after the last interview of the day. Among the prisoners was Robert Smigel, who uttered the sound of a toy dog.
“The Capitol police were more careful than they were, say, 18 months ago. And for very good reason.” If you don’t know what the reason is, I know what news network you’re looking at, “Kolber said. on Monday. “The Capitol police are just doing their job. My employees are just doing their job. Everyone is very professional. Everyone is very peaceful. My employees were arrested, tried and released.”
Although it was a “very unpleasant experience” for his staff, Colbert said it was all a pretty simple story, until one of the TV personalities falsely claimed that ” night staff ”staged a riot in the Capitol building. of the United States.
(Colbert didn’t mention it, but those words were said by Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson on Friday night.)
“First of all, what? Secondly right? Third, they are not in the Capitol building. “Fourth – and I’m shocked to have to explain the difference – but the uprising means disrupting the legitimate actions of Congress and preventing the peaceful transfer of power for the bloodshed of elected leaders,” Colbert said. . “This is a first-class doll. This is the intention of nonsense. Appropriation of the old Conan tip “.
See his full explanation below:
Source: Huffpost
