Stephen Colbert

He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly.

that we could not have him on the broadcast.

You know who is not one of my guests tonight?

That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico.

He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast.

Then, then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not having him on.

And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this.

On January 21st of this year, a letter was released by FCC chairman and smug bowling pin Brendan Carr.

In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes.

Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC, so FCCU.

John, I just, uh...

I'm sorry to interrupt.

I'm sure the commercial thing was going to be great.

I was going to do my commercial wrap-up.

There were some really funny ones, but others that were not as funny.

I just wanted to come over personally to thank you, man-to-man, friend-to-friend, for what you did for me last week on my show.

Stop it.

Now, for people who don't know, I'm in a little bit of a tiff right now with Conan O'Brien.

He claims that he made Mike Huckabee.

That's...