CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, once lauded as a fearless satirist who spoke truth to power, now appears to see himself as a Democratic Party booster first and a comedian second. The liberal comedian rose to fame on 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' with his blowhard right-wing media persona, but his stance was still generally one of skepticism toward establishment politicians.
’ve been lucky enough to spend some time with you and your wife,' Colbert told Obama, according to Vogue. 'She’s repeatedly asked me to call her Michelle… So my question is, to Presidents Biden and Clinton: Don’t you think I should be able to call him Barack?' According to reports, Colbert called his guests 'champion talkers' and mocked former President Trump in his questions, teeing up Biden and the others to tout the current office-holder's economic record.
Media columnist Joe Concha noted Colbert isn't alone in late-night as a left-wing voice. Seth Meyers offered Biden a glowing interview on NBC's 'Late Night' last month and got ice cream with the president. 'I'm surprised Jimmy Kimmel wasn't the warmup act and Seth Meyers wasn't walking around with a tin cup,' Concha told Fox News Digital. 'This is why late night has become completely indistinguishable from MSNBC or the Lincoln Project's X feed.
That was strange. I want to be in the meeting when they pitched that,' podcast giant Joe Rogan said of the vaccine skit. 'Like, where's the joke? People are gonna watch this?' Fox News' Louis Casiano and Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
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