Colbert on COVID Resurgence: ‘It’s Like the Mel Gibson of Viruses’ (Video)
thewrap.comStephen Colbert, who returned to “The Late Show” this week after recovering from COVID, had a bone to pick with the virus during his opening monologue Wednesday night.After tackling the Republican response to the leak of the Supreme Court majority opinion draft set to overturn Roe v.
Wade and retract abortion rights across the U.S., Colbert turned to the recent increase in COVID cases across several states.“Over in pandemic land, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the United States.
How many comebacks does COVID get? It’s the Mel Gibson of viruses,” Colbert joked.“Cases are going up in Washington, Mississippi, Georgia, Maine, Hawaii, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana,” he said, focusing in on that last state. “Come on, how does it possibly spread from person to person in Montana.
Every person is 20 miles apart. To give someone COVID, you have to lick a prairie dog and throw it through a window of a homestead.
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