Stephen Colbert endured an “fascinating” weekend after employees at ‘The Late Present’ had been arrested on the Capitol Constructing.
The 58-year-old comic defined that seven members of his present’s manufacturing staff had been arrested after they travelled to Washington DC to movie a section with Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine, a puppet character created by Robert Smigel.
Stephen joked: “How was your weekend? I definitely had an fascinating one, as a result of a few of my employees had a memorable one.
“Triumph provided to go all the way down to D.C. to interview some Congress individuals to focus on some January 6 hearings. I mentioned, ‘Positive, if you may get anybody to agree to speak to you. As a result of, and please don’t take this as an insult, you’re a puppet.'”
The comic subsequently defined that his employees, together with Robert Smigel, had been arrested by cops.
Nevertheless, Stephen conceded that the officers had been “simply doing their job” and he understood their cautious strategy in mild of the riot on the Capitol Constructing in January final yr.
He mentioned: “[My staff] had been doing a little last-minute puppetry and jokey make-em-ups in a hallway, when Triumph and my people had been approached and detained by Capitol Police, which truly is no surprise.
“The Capitol Police are way more cautious than they had been 18 months in the past and for an excellent purpose.”
Regardless of this, Stephen admitted it was a “very disagreeable expertise” for his employees.
The comedy star defined: “The Capitol police had been simply doing their job, my employees was simply doing their job, everybody was very skilled, everybody was very calm. My staffers had been detained, processed and launched. A really disagreeable expertise for my employees.”
In the meantime, Capitol police confirmed that officers “noticed seven people, unescorted and with out Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway”.
The assertion added: “The constructing was closed to guests, and these people had been decided to be part of a bunch that had been directed by the USCP to depart the constructing earlier within the day.”
