Stephen Colbert carved out time on Monday night’s “Late Show” to downplay the arrests of seven of his staffers inside a Capitol Hill building and joked they committed “first degree puppetry.”…
inside a Capitol Hill building and joked they committed “first degree puppetry.”
“After they’d finished their interviews, [my staffers] were doing some last-minute puppetry and jokey make-em-ups in a hallway, when Triumph and my folks were approached and detained by Capitol Police,” Colbert said during hisCapitol Police said the seven staffers along with Robert Smigel, who voices Triumph, were “unescorted and without Congressional ID” on the sixth floor of the building that was closed to the public at the time.
The late show host said Capitol police are more cautious about unattended and unpermitted visitors on Capitol grounds than they were 18 months ago “and for a very good reason” — referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Actor and comedian Robert Smigel performs as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog in the hallways outside the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hearing in the Cannon House Office Building.CBS has said the crew was at the Capitol Thursday to conduct authorized interviews with House members.