Why, exactly, were members of Stephen Colbert’s staff detained by Capitol police last week? The ‘Late Show’ host was happy to explain:
In his opening monologue on Monday evening, Colbert set the record straight as to why members of his staff and comedian-puppeteerhad gone to D.C. to film a segment in which Triumph the Insult Comic Dog interviewed members of Congress about the January 6 hearings. “Triumph offered to go down to D.C.,” Colbert said. “I said, ‘Sure, if you can get anyone to agree to talk to you, because—and please don’t take this as an insult—you’re a puppet.
According to Colbert, however, both Democratic and Republican congresspeople agreed to speak with Triumph for the segment. “He’s a bipartisan puppy. He’s so neutral, he’s neutered,” Colbert quipped.staffers shot for two days in congressional offices across the street from the Capitol building, Colbert explained. “They went through security clearance and shot all day Wednesday, all day Thursday, invited into the offices of the people they were interviewing,” Colbert said. “That’s very important.
Colbert said that on Thursday evening, after the bulk of the shoot was done, Triumph and the staffers were doing “last-minute puppetry” and “jokey ‘make-’em-ups’” in a hallway when they were detained by Capitol police—which Colbert insisted was not all that surprising. “The 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 what that reason is, I know what news network you watch.
The incident was “a very unpleasant experience for staff, a lot of paperwork for the Capitol police, but a fairly simple story," Colbert said. The story, however, got more complicated when “the TV people” began accusing Colbert and his puppet squad of committing an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. “First of all, what?” Colbert said Monday. “Second of all, huh? Third of all, they weren’t in the Capitol building.
Colbert continued: “This was first-degree puppetry. This was hijinks with an intent to goof. This was misappropriation of an oldWithout calling out anyone who accused him of committing an insurrection by name, Colbert took the “TV talkers” to task for comparing his bit gone awry to January 6.
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