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The financial markets are clearly spooked, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been in sharp retreat over the last few days. Stephen Colbert realizes the seriousness of the situation, and gave his “condolences to the entire Jones family. Our economy will be missed.” So why the sudden panic? The bond market flashed…

The fringe Democrat candidates for president are getting antsy, as the cut-off point looms for their inclusion in the next round of debates. All of which was comedy gold for Stephen Colbert. He couldn’t resist one President Trump dig, though. “There is one race Trump dislikes more than any other,” Colbert said…

As usual during his Late Show monologue, Stephen Colbert tonight dug into the day's most talked-about news stories. Read: whatever the hell Donald Trump said and did. And today it was the president's penchant for knowing exactly how not to play consoler-in-chief. Before POTUS left for Dayton and El Paso — the cities…

The Democratic presidential candidate debates don’t offer a lot of time for reflection. Media outlets scramble to get up hot takes, and Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show is no exception. So tonight, the luxury of time gave Colbert a chance to ponder not only what happened, “I mean, also, why happened?  It’s 20 people…

Stephen Colbert told his Late Show crowd that everyone is still talking about Robert Mueller’s performance. The key is, Colbert said, they’re talking about the wrong things. Colbert did concede that the long testimony by Mueller seemed to drag. “By the end, we all felt as old as Robert Mueller looked,” he…

Like millions of Americans and other Earthlings, Stephen Colbert watched Robert Mueller’s double-duty congressional testimony today. Unlike most people, Colbert has a network TV show. Cue his postgame analysis on The Late Show tonight. Early on during the monologue, the CBS late-night host revealed that he indeed…

Donald Trump was in the news today. While that’s about as surprising as a prize in a Cracker Jack box, Stephen Colbert did his darnedest to joke about it. Equally unsurprising. Fodder for his monologue on The Late Show tonight focused on POTUS’ own monologue from the previous night, when he made a wide-ranging and…

The formal condemnation of President Donald Trump by the Democrat majority House of Representatives provided some rich comedy material for Stephen Colbert. House lawmakers approved a resolution on Tuesday that formally denounced President Trump’s recent tirade against the four congresswomen known as The Squad. Trump…

CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert returns from its holiday hiatus tonight, and lots has changed in the past two weeks! OK, not really anything has changed: The man who leads the league in late-night presidential harassment came back to work locked and loaded. Colbert didn’t need to reach back days or weeks for…

The Late Show won’t start quite as late as usual a couple of times this month. CBS said today that its Stephen Colbert-hosted late-night talker will air live immediately after the second batch of Democratic debates on July 30 and 31. No word yet on which gests will joining Colbert for the live broadcast from the Ed…

Seth Meyers took a closer look at the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate. The Late Night host found much to enjoy in the scrum between contenders and in President Donald Trump’s reactions to them. First, Meyers wondered why reporters bothered asked Trump how he thought the Dem debaters would do.…

In his Late Show monologue, Stephen Colbert joined the chorus of those who scored the debate a win for California Sen. Kamala Harris. He must have been distracted by her rhetorical mastery, though, because the lines he and his writers came up with were not especially effective. “I believe in global warming because…