>> stephen: welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. huge story that broke just minutes ago, like, less than 10 minutes ago. f.b.i. director james comey has just been fired by donald trump. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: wooo! >> stephen: huge, huge donald trump fans here tonight. that shows no gratitude at all. >> jon: man. >> stephen: did trump forget about the hillary emails that comey talked about? i mean "thanks for the presidency, jimmy. now don't let the door hit you where the electoral college split you want. i'm shocked. my heart is pumping. my pulse is racing. he fired the f.b.i. director who has said under oath that he's investigating the trump campaign's ties to russia. no rationale has been given yet as to why but it came on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions. >> audience: booo! >> stephen: i think-- i think i might know why. i think he was fired because comey couldn't ge guess the name rump pel still skin. trump sent comey a all right in which he writes: does everything have to be about him? "well, i gre

. >> stephen colbert, responding, to some growing backlash. some are outraged over remarks, he made monday night, about donald trump and vladamir putin. hear now what he says. happy 42nd birthday to david beckham. judging from his birthday dinner, was it really all that happy? we'll have the story ahead in "the skinny." first -- here is a look at today's temperatures. tand, our adulte children are here. so, we save by using tide. which means we use less. three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. those are moms. anybody seen my pants? nothing cleans better. put those on dad! it's got to be tide. >>> cbs late show host, stephen colbert responding to backlash over an offcolored joke he made about president trump monday night. >> follows criticism from trump supporters and members of the lgbt community calling the joke disrespectful and homophobic. >> mr. trump, your presidency, i love your presidency. i call it disgrace the nation. you're not the potus, you are the blotus, the gluten with a button, a regular gorge washington, the presidun

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see stephen colbert is afforded something i will never have. liberal protection.if your heart is in the right place, and mine is always in the wrong! then you can say what you want as long as your job matches the assumptions of your peers. i will never demand an apology but one will be always demented for me. it is painfully obvious that if i made the same joke about president obama i would be marched into the atlantic with - around my neck. that is okay, i will defend those who may never defend me. because i am a nice guy and there are -- [applause] >> andrew, have you ever been in a situation like this before? does this infuriate you? >> everybody is a sissy. it's fine, i am cool with it. this is all the way on twitter is get into these things. >> yes, i have seen this with you! >> it happens. arvid did not care what he says. i'm only offended by things are not funny. but i respect the attempt. a lot of times a look at comedians as like firemen. it's not your job to save them. it is your job to try. so is not our job. you know what i mean? th

stephen colbert under fire. conservatives calling for him to be fired after his vulgar anti-trump monologue. last night there was a response from colbert, but it wasn't an apology. >> still? am i still the host? i'm still the host. at the end of that monologue, i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don't regret that. so while i would do it again, i would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. >> today more calls for cbs to take action, a fire colbert website was launched all because of this. >> you attract more skin heads than free rogain you have more people marching against you than cancer. you talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. in fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being vladimir putin's [ bleep ] pollster. >> should he face some sort of consequence and what? back with us, aaron, sabrina and alex. aaron, how lucky you are. you're first. >> well, you know, if you look at the ratings, being tough on trump has been very good business fo

do you think stephen colbert crossed the line with's comments? do you agree with the boycotts? i personally don't. go to facebook.com/seanhannity, @seanhannity on twitter. time to play messages you left for me. sometimes nice, sometimes mean. it's the hannity hotline. >> sean: so many of you have been really, really amazing. it's very humbling. i know i don't have this camera, my radio microphone without your support. i will try to earn it. i promise. thank you. means a lot. have something to say to me? call the number on your screen 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. see back here tomorrow night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." fbi director james comey was back on capitol hill today, this time to testify before the senate judiciary committee. democrats on the committee grilled him over his behavior in last fall's election. in response, the director acknowledged that his aspects -- actions may have played some role in causing donald trump to win and that possibility made him be sick. >> thi

>> stephen: welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. huge story that broke just minutes ago, like, less than 10 minutes ago. f.b.i. director james comey has just been fired by donald trump. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: wooo! >> stephen: huge, huge donald trump fans here tonight. that shows no gratitude at all. >> jon: man. >> stephen: did trump forget about the hillary emails that comey talked about? i mean "thanks for the presidency, jimmy. now don't let the door hit you where the electoral college spli i'm shocked. my heart is pumping. my pulse is racing. he fired the f.b.i. director who has said under oath that he's investigating the trump campaign's ties to russia. no rationale has been given yet as to why but it came on the recommendation of attorney general jeff sessions. >> audience: booo! >> stephen: i think-- i think i might know why. i think he was fired because comey couldn't ge guess the name rump pel still skin. trump sent comey a all right in which he writes: does everything have to be about him? "well, i greatly apprec

>> stephen: great. this is stephen colbert's midnight confessions! ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) standard disclaimer -- i don't know if these are technically sins, but i do feel bad about them. okay. be right back. ( laughter ) forgive me audience: neil degrasse tyson is my favorite guest-- and my least favorite movie reviewer. ( laughter ) i know lightsabers wouldn't work in real life, just let me have this, neil! sometiwh i walk around my neighborhood wearing a shirt that says, "as seen on tv." ( laughter ) i love my coffee mug. 'cause this ain't coffee. ( laughter ) ( applause ) that smells -- canadian. ( cheers and applause ) ( soft organ music ) when i want to feel good, i do random acts of kindness. and when that doesn't work, random acts of violence. ( laughter ) i still think there's a small chance i have jedi powers. ( laughter ) when i kill a house fly, i leave it's body there, and yell "you're next you bastards!" no shoes, no service", i always think "they're gonna be sorry they didn't include pants". ( laughter ) sometimes i have s

>> stephen: great. this is stephen colbert's midnight confessions! ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) standard disclaimer -- i don't know if these are technically sins, but i do feel bad about them. okay. be right back. ( laughter ) forgive me audience: neil degrasse tyson is my favorite guest-- and my least favorite movie reviewer. ( laughter ) i know lightsabers wouldn't work in real life, just let me have this, neil! sometimes when i'm feeling down, i walk around my neighborhood wearing a shirt that says, "as seen on tv." ( laughter ) i love my coffee mug. 'cause this ain't coffee. ( laughter ) ( applause ) that smells -- canadian. ( cheers and applause ) ( soft organ music ) when i want to feel good, i do random acts of kindness. and when that doesn't work, random acts of violence. ( laughter ) i still think there's a small chance i have jedi powers. ( laughter ) when i kill a house fly, i leave it's body there, and yell "you're next you bastards!" when i see the sign "no shirt, no shoes, no service", i always think "they're gonna be sorry they

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for some reason stephen colbert went over -- in my opinion he went over the line. you can talk about a president and make fun of a president. when you get vulgar and crude the way he did in that first monologue, i think he has exceeded the line. listen, i'm against boycotts. i don't believe in any of that stuff. he should at least have a sincere apology, right? >> you would think so. it's never going to happen though. i think that he has an insatiable appetite for getting the appear approbation of radical in hollywood and he is feeling it now and validation. i wish there was more backlash among decent liberals in between in america right now. i think it's interesting that you talk about the history of late night comedy and politics i think what's happened is that the left has gotten so desperate. because they realize how marginalized in america that we have gone far beyond bill clinton playing the saxophone with arsenio hall. even jimmy fallon came under attack in the campaign because he did have donald trump on. and what was his treating donald trump like a human

liberal media na not liking that, stephen colbert taking offense. during monday, colbert ended a spring of trump insults with what some critics call a homophobic slur. >> mr. trump, your presidency, i love it, i call it disgrace the nation, he does not stand by anything, except the dressing room door at miss usa pageant. you attract more skinheads than free regain, you have more people marching again you know that cancer, only thing your mouth is good for is being vladimir putin's [bleep] holster . liz: today sean spicer said, i will not dignify those comments with a response. who here? co-host of after the bell, author of lessons from the prairie, melissa frances. melissa: please buy by book. >> you expect show hosts on make jokes, if you don't like it change the channel. but what about that end comment? >> i don't get the rules on when you are allowed to make homophobic jokes who isn't and who isn't. and when you are allowed to make fun of people when you are fat or not. liz: did they go too far. >> i don't get the rules on this, if it was the oth

i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) very nice, very nice. hey, you know a couple weeks ago when house republicans passed their healthcare plan? they were so excited about providing the affordable healthcare to everyone, that they didn't wait to find out if they were providing affordable healthcare to anyone. ( laughter ) well, the congressional budget office finally crunched the numbers on their plan and, unlike their first plan, which would have 24 million people off health insurance, this one will leave only 23 million more americans uninsured. just 23 million, okay? that's it. >> jon: wow. >> stephen: 23. to put that in perspective, if you laid 23 million people end to end, they would reach a country that has health care. ( laughter ) ( applause ) north? maybe. according to the c.b.o., it raises premiums for older, poor americans by as much as 850%. so, i think the g.o.p. repealed and replaced your grandpa. ( laughter ) republicans dismissed the report. texas representative and portable tube of yogurt, louie gohmert, told reporters why he

see stephen colbert is afforded something i will never have. liberal protection.if your heart is in the right place, and mine is always in the wrong! then you can say what you want as long as your job matches the assumptions of your peers. i will never demand an apology but one will be always demented for me. it is painfully obvious that if i made the same joke about president obama i would be marched into the atlantic with - around my neck. that is okay, i will defend those who may never defend me. because i am a nice guy and there are -- [applause] >> andrew, have you ever been in a situation like this before? does this infuriate you? >> everybody is a sissy. it's fine, i am cool with it. this is all the way on twitter is get into these things. >> yes, i have seen this with you! >> it happens. arvid did not care what he says. i'm only offended by things are not funny. but i respect the attempt. a lot of times a look at comedians as like firemen. it's not your job to save them. it is your job to try. so is not our job. you know what i mean? th

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>> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes richard gere. maria bamford. and musical guest "perfume genius." featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey! >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. ( cheers and applause ) what's going on? >> jon: yeah! >> stephen: welcome to the "late show." >> audience: i love you, stephen! >> stephen: i love you, too. welcome to the "late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) very nice. hey, everybody. hey, everybody. first of all, happy friday. that's always a good feeling. ( cheers and applause ) and happy cinco de mayo! ( cheers and applause ) as traditional, the white house threw a party this year hosted by vice president and man who thinks toothpaste is too spicy, mike pence. ( laughter ) here's the thing, here's the thing-- they actually threw the party yesterday. which isn't cinco de mayo. it's actually "cuatro" de mayo. so for once, mike pence was a

late show with stephen colbert. tonight we welcome chris pratt, neil degrasse tyson and musical guest ryan adams, featuring jon batiste and stay human. now, live from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its he's stephen colbert! (cheers and applause). >> stephen: whooo! (applause) (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome to the late showment i'm your host, stephen colbert it it is day-- (applause). >> stephen: it is day 100-- 102 of the trump presidency, 1,358 days to go. but who's counting? (laughter) (laughter) (applause). >> stephen: now trump has repeatedly said that this hundred day thing is totally arbitrary, okay. total leer unimportant. and to prove how unimportant it is, he took out a tv ad, he cut a cake on air force one, and he held a rally in pennsylvania. the theme of that rally, promises made, promises kept. which is better than the original slogan, promises made, never mind, never said it, fake news, watch foxan friends. so, nice, got a rhythm. (applause) he also proved just how unimportant th

host: one more example, you mentioned stephen colbert. here is a next her. >> you know -- here is a clip. know, at the end of that monologue, i had some choice insults the president in return. i do not regret that. believe he can take care of himself. i have jokes, but he has the launch codes. so, a fair fight. , i while i would do it again would i just want to say for the record life is short and anyone who expresses their love for another person in their own way is to me an american hero. i think we can all agree on that. i hope even the president and i can agree on that. host: your response? guest: i'm a huge fan of stephen colbert. i think he's the funniest of all of these people. and i think his talent is so deep. i know he would hate for somebody to say this about him, he has an incredible heart and i think what he was apologizing there for, there was a way the joke could be referred to as homophobic. one reason i really stand on the part of the progressive values, i think mainstream television has done something conservatives were

host: you mentioned to stephen colbert on the late show. here is an excerpt. >> if you saw my monologue on monday, you know i was a little bit upset with donald trump for insulting a friend of mine. i had a few choice insults for the president in return. i don't regret that. [applause] i believe he can take care of himself. i have jokes, he has the launch codes. while i would do it again, i would change a few words that were cruder than they needed to be. i'm not going to repeat the phrase. i just want to say for the record life is short and anyone who expresses their love for another person in their own way is to me an american hero. i think we can all agree on that. i hope even the president and i can agree on that. host: your response? guest: i'm a huge fan of stephen colbert. i think he's the funniest of all of these people. his talent is so deep. i know he would hate for somebody to say this about him, he has an incredible heart and i think what he was apologizing therefore, there was a way the joke could be referred to as homophobic.

donald trump has small hands. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes amy schumer and gabourey sidibe. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause )

. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes amy schumer and gabourey sidibe. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: woooo! >> stephen: what's going on? >> jon: i see you! i see you! >> stephen: thank you so much, everybody. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. guess who's back? hillary clinton. ( cheers and applause ) just this afternoon, she she emerged from the woods. just this afternoon, she appeared here in new york at an event hosted by "women for women international." and the moderator, christiane amanpour, interviewed secretary clinton and asked her about the 2016 campaign. >> what do you imagine your election as the first female president of the united states might have said to the world and to the women of the world who were looking for validation, for somebody to shatter that highest and hardest ceiling? >> oh, i think it would have been a really

stephen colbert, i'll defend his right to do this. the more they do this, the more outrage they have for no reason whatsoever. it distances themselves from mainstream america, the same people donald trump won over in the election. reporter: jimmy kimmel brought up the heart wrenching story of his newborn soin a heart operation. we paul felt that part of it, particularly parents. joe, i have gotten a lot of heat because you didn't follow the script on this one and you went after jimmy kim and you have taken a lot of heat for it. >> as my good friend charlie kirk says, jimmy kimmel has every right in the world to get political. but i found it offensive that he used that tragedy of his son and i hope his scene lives a long and healthy life -- to push obamacare. obamacare is bankrupting this country and a late-night comedians tears up and that somehow dictates our healthcare policy? we can't think any more, everything is side, crazy emotion. ask. charles: the thought that colbert had to go off on donald trump. to me that makes it even mor

do you think stephen colbert crossed the line with's comments? do you agree with the boycotts? i personally don't. go to facebook.com/seanhannity, @seanhannity on twitter. time to play messages you left for me. sometimes nice, sometimes mean. it's the hannity hotline. >> sean: so many of you have been really, really amazing. it's very humbling. i know i don't have this camera, my radio microphone without your support. i will try to earn it. i promise. thank you. means a lot. have something to say to me? call the number on your screen 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left this evening. thanks for being with us. see back here tomorrow night positive note. that is a story tonight. we'll see you tomorrow at 7:00. tucker carlson is next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." fbi director james comey was back on capitol hill today, this time to testify before the senate judiciary committee. democrats on my committee grilled him over his behavior and last fall's election. in response, the director at knowledge that has aspects may have played so

. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes robin wright. hannibal buress. paul simon. plus a performance by paul simon and bill featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: that was nice. hey, everybody! what's going on? hey! you're too kind. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show"." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( applause ) thank you very much, very kind. well, president trump is still on his semester abroad, getting his extra credits. and he might want to stay over there for a while until firemen can put out his budget proposal. because not only does nobody like it, but it turns out it has a huge mistake in it. not the part about cutting funding for cancer research. that's one of his passion projects. it turns out that the entire budget is based on a $2 trillion math error. yes, that's trillion, with a "t." now, there's a simple explanation for how this happened: donald trump is an idiot. ( cheers and applaus

. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes robin wright. hannibal buress. paul simon. plus a performance by paul simon and bill frisell. featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: that was nice. hey, everybody! what's going on? hey! you're too kind. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show"." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( applause ) thank you very much, very kind. well, president trump is still on his semester abroad, getting his extra credits. and he might want to stay over there for a while until firemen can put out his budget proposal. because not only does nobody like it, but it turns out it has a huge mistake in it. not the part about cutting funding for cancer research. that's one of his passion projects. it turns out that the entire budget is based on a $2 trillion math error. yes, that's trillion, with a "t." now, there's a simple explanation for how this happened: donald trump is an idiot. ( cheers an

and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! >> stephen: hey! hey! ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ >> jon: i like that! >> stephen: good to see you! ( cheers and applause ) hey! thank you, everybody. thank you, so much. welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. ( cheers and applause ) thank you. i feel the same way about you. well i have-- i have gone through a lot of thoughts today. it's been a historic day. we have reached a milestone as a nation. it's not just that the president fired the head of the f.b.i. okay. no, here's the milestone-- we have apparently elected a president who truly does not care what anything looks like. which is surprising fair guy whose actual face we've never seen. ( laughter ) now-- no idea. >> jon: man, man. nope. >> stephen: firing jim comey, head of the f.b.i., really feels like authoritarianism 101. which, by the way, a very difficult class. the es tol nazi. ( cheers and applause ) yeah, so strict. so strict. ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: tough guy. >> stephen: the question i

i would never call for anybody to boycott stephen colbert? you know how i boycott stephen colbert? watching jimmy fallon. if you don't like this show, go watch some other show. this is the point, we don't do this to them. we are far more open minded in spite of the perception they cringe on the left that they are open-minded and open next accessible, they're really not. they would be standing with us years ago i stood with that idiot bill marr, i don't like him. i would not want anyone to try to shut him down or anyone else. >> there were liberal outlets when it looked like conservative media outlets were being boycotted by the white house that said cnn, "the new york times" stood with fox. >> that's not the same thing, there's an effort to shut us down. would you ever support a boycott? i would not. >> absolutely not. i think the best remedy for speech you don't like is more speech. it is not saying i don't like what you're saying it offends me. i would also like to label you into the corner and i stand on the moral high ground. these people facing milo you ann coulter, they've go

>> stephen: welcome to "the late show,"" everybody. i'm your host, stephen colbert. it's friday. it's friday. ( cheers and applause ) that's not just any friday crowd. that is the friday crowd before the friday before summer begins. it is summer, ladies and gentlemen. congratulations. you made it. that's it! that's it. i'm going to get a tan, man. i'm going to get a tan this summer. i'm doing the cocoa butter. it's going to be fantastic. yes, i am. i'm going to do the cocoa butter. i'm going to smell-- i'm going to smell like a buffet at a jimmy buffet restaurant. it's the first day of ramadan. happy ramadan, or whatever emotion goes with ramadan. i don't entirely know whether it's a happy day. it's a time of fasting, so hungry ramadan. just have a good one, that's all i ask. donald trump is still out of the country. ( cheers and applause ) we still have time to change the locks. he's in sicily for the g-7 meeting. they're talking about climate change down at the g-7 this year, or as trump calls it "weather channel fake news. gets cold every winter, don't understand." ( laughter

>> there is plenty of calls for stephen colbert to apologize about this. you hear these sorts of things from comedians often. they will go to the line ogre over the line. the thing that is startling about this it, it is not something that people expect on network television. >> they don't expect it in part because it is a wide audience that doesn't want to be pandered to like some niche left-wing bunch of maroons. i agree with mollie about this, free speech, a wonderful thing about our country. i think what galls me is the bravery about it. this whole contrived notion that he was rushing to the defense of the cbs family member nonsense. there is nothing brave about this. he is pandering to his biggest fans and pretending like it's courageous. it's shabby. >> bret: yes or no? apology happen? carol? >> i think you will hear something from him. >> i hope so. i hope it is genuine. >> bret: thank you, panel. no online show tonight. sorry about that. we'll be back next week. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report." fai