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Colbert Mocks Uproar Over Arrested Staffers by Listing History’s Greatest Puppet Crimes (Video)

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bad faith attempts to paint the thing as somehow analogous to the Jan. 6 riot. But taking his mockery of those critics further, Colbert also ran down a list of horrific crimes he joked have been committed by puppets over the years.

Pretty fun stuff, and you can watch it above now.Surely you of course know what we’re talking about, but just in case, on Friday it came out that seven people associated with “The Late Show” were arrested and briefly detained last week in Washington, D.C> by capitol police.

That story, reported by Fox News first (of course), made the whole thing sound weird and possibly criminal, and also made it sound as if they’d been arrested in the Capitol building.

But of course, the real story is the opposite of that.As CBS explained in a statement, those “The Late Show” staffers were actually filming a Triumph the Insult Comic dog sketch across the street in congressional offices, and they “were authorized and pre-arranged through Congressional aides of the members interviewed.” They ended up staying in the building after it was technically closed, and were picked up while filming some comedy filler material.

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