Stephen Colbert Is Not Satisfied by Trump’s Response to the New Zealand Shootings

Mar 19, 2019 · 20 comments
mikek728 (Las Vegas)
This was a great and accurate monologue
Neter (Bethesda, MD)
Are the late nite comedians victims of Youtube’s purging of material related to New Zealand murder rampage?
Aristotle Gluteus Maximus (Louisiana)
Colbert should grow up. He’s the one making jokes about a mass murder and trying to somehow bring it around to his favorite schtick of blaming Trump.
RD (Los Angeles)
When Donald Trump is finally defeated and is carried out of the White House kicking and screaming, all of the late night TV hosts should be on hand to applaud his exit. Ridicule is the best medicine for an obnoxious tyrant, especially when he has defaced every blessed thing that is good about America... Many of us in Los Angeles have vowed to throw a party the moment that Donald Trump is no longer president. And we will light a candle for every year that he is sentenced to prison...
Cameron (California)
Stephen Colbert & Seth Myers are like doctors helping to heal the sickness infecting our country.
skyfiber (melbourne, australia)
Elsewhere in this rag you will find an interview with Ricky Gervais. In it he says ‘if you’re relying on an audience agreeing with you, you’re rallying. It loses something comedically. Comedy is an intellectual pursuit, not an emotional one. ’ Late night ONLY cares about the audience agreeing...what garbage.
Dry Socket (Illinois)
Seth Myers should receive (in fact all these Late Night Hosts) deserve Mark Twain Awards for their work.
Edgar Numrich (Portland, Oregon)
It portends a bleak ~ if not also totally devastated future ~ for America that so many of its citizens support the travesty that is Donald J. Trump. That Trump likes it that way calls for a speedy resolution.
DSS (Ottawa)
Colbert is right on! The Colbert monologues put the news of the day in terms that we can all understand. As a born and brought up New Englander we use sarcasm to get a sensitive point across. It's a skill Colbert has mastered.
chouwalker (Denver)
Best of Late Night now includes ads for Yahoo? Disappointing.
alemley (wichita)
Thank heavens for late night comedy shows. They keep me afloat. That the writers can find humor in the tragedy that is going on in Washington shows how truly talented they are. Without their help, I would be hard pressed to find anything to smile at. Thank you, late night comedy writers and comedians!
There (Here)
This guys not satisfied with anything and wont have much of a show once trump is out of office.
Greater Metropolitan Area (Just far enough from the big city)
@There I strongly suspect that the brilliant writers of these shows can't wait to make jokes about something else.
David Stewart (Inuvik)
@There The Trump jokes are only going to get better when he's puttering the beach in bad shorts lol
Edgar Numrich (Portland, Oregon)
@There You have either awakened from a long sleep, or are simply unaware of Mr. Colbert's success in "late night" that achieved appointment to his current program
JSon (Boston Ma)
Compare the leadership Jacinda Ardern has shown after the shootings in New Zealand with Trump’s obviously fake sympathy comments after any tragedy in the U.S. and you can see the obvious difference between a real leader and our President.
CHN (Boston)
Perhaps the writer of this article could let us know what President Trump has done that Mr. Colbert would approve of--not that anyone cares what performers think any more than our next door neighbors opinions matter.
Andrew Lee (San Francisco Bay Area)
I don't think there's been much to celebrate, or approve of, so, that's about right.
Penn Towers (Wausau)
@CHN presidents set a tone the world sees us by. it is profoundly disappointing. he was elected and is entitled to his politics, but his representation of the US to the world is not who we are as a nation. if your neighbors were murdered, would you show sympathy?
Blackmamba (Il)
@CHN What has President Trump ever done that Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin. Mohammed bin Salman, Kim Jong Un, Rodrigo Duterte, Recep Erdogan,Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham would not approve of ?