It used to be that late-night comedians went out of their way to remain politically neutral. Of course, in the Johnny Carson hay days, people weren’t quite as humiliated by a president like Donald Trump. Throughout the Trump tenure, Colbert and Kimmel spared nothing when going after Trump.

Neither one of them has stopped because Trump hasn’t stopped and last night, Colbert mocked the fact that Trump has only had one hit record and he just keeps playing the same songs over and over, including his claim that he was right about hydroxychloroquine (Trump has not been proven right, one study suggests it was helpful for people on ventilators, near death, Trump suggested people at home take it). Colbert let Trump have it:

“No one cares about that now! We have a vaccine! I can’t imagine anything more tired than the Covid drugs from 12 months ago.”

Colbert took out a lighter, as if to light it like at a concert, and then said: “This lighter does not indicate that I’m excited. You’re just so boring I’d rather set myself on f*re!”

“This really seems like you’re just reading a speech from last summer,” as he went on to talk about fumbling and flailing away during a speech that never had any hope of exciting his followers.

But Colbert was just hitting his stride and took down two other MAGA pols with him. From Mediaite, noting that Bill Barr had come out on the record to say that claims of election fraud were bullsh*t:

“And Bill Barr should know. He spent the last two years with his lips very close to that bull’s ass,” Colbert joked, later noting that Barr claimed he was encouraged to speak out by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who, “would have spoken the truth himself last December, but he needed the former president’s help to ensure that the GOP won the two runoff elections in Georgia.”

“In the end, Mitch McConnell sold his soul for nothing. So, a pretty fair price.”

That last line is hilarious and exactly right.

Perhaps if politics ever went back to normal, we’d be fine with late-night comedians getting back to ignoring politics. But our politics are too extreme right now to not note Trump’s danger and absurdity.

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