Stephen Colbert
speaker
1,477 appearances
50 recordings
16 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Stephen Colbert’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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.
Now, here's the thing.
I don't usually say this to a guest, but if people are watching this right now, it's because they found us online, on YouTube.
I did an act of the show that's on tonight explaining why it's not the first time you've caused some drama.
FCC opening probe into The View after appearance by Tallarico.
Do you mean to cause trouble?
I do.
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.
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