Just watched Colbert open his show. WOW! Trump will be screaming to have the show suspended now. 3 VIDEOS ADDED

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Fri Sep 19, 2025, 01:25 AM - Edit history (4)

Colbert nailed Carr, too.




NOTE - The third video below - which shows Stephen resurrecting The Colbert's Report feature The Word for the word "Shhhh!" - has now at least temporarily been made private. (EDIT - A different video with the same segment was uploaded later, and I've added that below.)
But I just found a Hollywood Reporter story about that segment which includes the show's Instagram post with the video, and it's still available there: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/stephen-colbert-report-character-the-word-returns-1236375670/
This Deadline article also has The Word: https://deadline.com/2025/09/stephen-colbert-the-colbert-reports-the-word-jimmy-kimmel-1236549071/

[Silent Type]

1. Seriously, considering context it gave me chills. I'm pleasantly surprised it wasn't edited, apparently.

I know we hate him, but interested in what Tapper says.

[newdeal2]

6. He was pretty good surprisingly

Calling out the rich cowardly media owners.

And somehow he has a new book about a different topic too.

[Silent Type]

8. This is really a good show so far. Both Colbert and Tapper are risking trumpster anger.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

14. Even Chuck Todd has a video against fcc Barr

[msongs]

2. one might think carr's tweets could be used as evidence in a trial lol nt

[highplainsdem]

29. He certainly condemned his own later behavior.

[Wednesdays]

3. The third video is listed as "private," and therefore not viewable by us on DU.

[highplainsdem]

5. Just edited the OP to mention that. It was viewable earlier. CBS is apparently censoring it.

[ancianita]

12. Yep, censoring moves pretty fast these days, except for media on the Radical Right.

[highplainsdem]

9. See the edited OP for a link to an article with that segment.

[tanyev]

4. Bravo, Stephen!

First video especially clever.

[Initech]

7. Brendan Carr is one sick, sadistic, evil fuck. He must be stopped!

Thank you Stephen!

[highplainsdem]

30. He's completely unqualified for the job he has.

[oasis]

10. This is informative as well as entertaining.

Kicking

[highplainsdem]

27. It was extremely well done.

[Silent Type]

11. I'm actually somewhat optimistic that this show wasn't pulled. They may come after Colbert tomorrow,

but kudos to Colbert. And, hate him or not, Tapper was good too.

[off-the-clock]

13. I suppose maga are waiting for NBC to want approval of a merger?

Hoping NBC hits back hard when they come for Fallon.

These are great videos -- thanks. Wish we had more on the third video

[highplainsdem]

17. Didn't you see the links in the OP to magazine articles with the segment in the third video via Instagram?

The video is still on Instagram, still watchable there.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. Conservatives

Are never funny thier humor pushes people down it’s bitter and is just not funny. Never seen a conservative be truly funny.

[SunSeeker]

16. "The were pissing themselves all day...proving Disney is #1 in streaming."

OMG

[highplainsdem]

18. The show's YouTube channel uploaded another video with The Word, and that's now in the OP.

[Diraven]

19. Does Carr have anything else to hold over CBS?

Even if he doesn't there are probably enough Sinclair CBS affiliates that that they'll demand Colbert be immediately fired by the network like they did Kimmel.

[highplainsdem]

26. Sinclair does have a lot of CBS affiliates.

[Figarosmom]

20. Thank you i missed it.....nt 😊

[highplainsdem]

24. I'd planned to go to bed early, then decided I had to see the monologue...and then I knew I had to

post about it, and share videos here as fast as they appeared on YouTube (and then disappeared, going private before another copy of the video was uploaded, as happened with the third video, The Word - and then I was able to find articles linking to the show's video on Instagram, but I wasn't sure if whoever had ordered the third video made private on YouTube might be able to do the same with the Instagram copy).

Someday I'll be able to catch up on sleep I've lost because of Trump. But last night those videos seemed much more important, and I was thrilled by what Stephen did.

[artemisia1]

21. If only this sort of thing was able to air in 1930's Germany and Italy. No household TV's though, and the Resistance

waited too long before acting and by then the fascists had too many guns and too much control.

[RainCaster]

22. His tears are brown?

Best line of the night wasn't spoken.

[highplainsdem]

25. Great line!

[lamp_shade]

23. Kick

[ananda]

28. Wow, that was so great!

New Podcast: Fired Force 5

LOL

[malaise]

31. Brilliant

Rec

[highplainsdem]

32. Arguably his best show ever.