Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ Audience Laughs When He Tells Kaitlan Collins That CNN is ‘Objective’
“I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is”
This week, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Stephen Colbert shared an awkward moment on The Late Show. When he suggested to her that CNN is objective, his audience burst out laughing. Even people who would wait in line to watch Colbert know the truth about CNN’s ridiculous levels of bias.
As you’ll see in the clip below, neither Collins nor Colbert were prepared for the crowd’s reaction.
FOX News reports:
Stephen Colbert’s New York City audience laughs after he praises CNN’s objectivity
“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert’s off-the-cuff remark about CNN being “objective” drew laughter from his New York City audience on Monday night.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins appeared on the late-night comedy show where she discussed learning about President Biden dropping out of the 2024 race, the media’s relationship with former President Trump and how Vice President Harris had shaken up the 2024 race.
Collins said that the Trump campaign had been thrown off by the sudden change of the Democratic nominee after Biden stepped aside last month. Colbert then started to praise Collins’ news organization in a lead-up to a question.
“I know you guys are objective over there, that you just report the news as it is,” he told Collins as audience members started to laugh in the background.
“No, no no —” Colbert objected while waving his hand and grinning at the audience’s reaction. “CNN makes a…” he trailed off.
“Was that supposed to be a laugh line?” Collins reacted with a smirk.
“It wasn’t supposed to be, but I guess it is,” Colbert joked back before quickly pivoting to his question.
Here’s the clip:
NEW: Audience starts cracking up after a serious Stephen Colbert tells CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that CNN “just reports the news as it is.”
Remarkable.
Colbert: “I know you guys are objective over [at CNN], you just report the news as it is.”
Audience: *Laughs hysterically*… pic.twitter.com/9R8iv2UXeN
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 13, 2024
Isn’t it funny that Colbert suggested that CNN is objective right after Collins spent a moment happily describing what she perceives as Trump ‘struggling’ to find an effective attack line on Kamala Harris?
It’s really sad to see what Colbert has done to The Late Show in recent years. The show used to be for all Americans and featured guests who were movie stars, musicians, sports heroes, and other celebrities.
Now the cast of guests is a revolving list of Democrat officials, CNN and MSNBC hosts, and anyone else who shares Colbert’s pathological hatred of Trump. Media critic Stephen L. Miller, aka @redsteeze, has branded it perfectly.
Late night group therapy for libs. https://t.co/x9pE7qg4fu
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 8, 2022
Featured image via YouTube.
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I suspect both of them knew the truth, and were able to just get back to the show after the audience reaction as a result. If they honestly thought otherwise, I’d expect more of a response from the host and guest.
And Dana Perino, political science major, had never heard of the Cuban missile crisis. Who cares what these news bimbos think?
not quite as bad as this obvious leftist cover-up
it was her personal lack of knowledge vs the obvious lie that cnn is objective
CNN has never been objective.
The bias was evident on its first day.
Sometimes when something unexpected but funny happens you can’t help but laugh out loud.
That’s what happened here. Colbert said something so outrageous it was funny, the crowd reacted to it by laughing out load, but that shocked Colbert because the “laugh” sign that is supposed to tell the audience what to laugh at didn’t light up. The shock was evident on his face. “Why did they laugh when we didn’t tell them to?”.
He should have warned them ahead of time during the preceding commercial break, “I’m going to say that CNN is objective, please don’t laugh”; that would have saved them some embarrassment.
The audience comes ready to laugh, even as a reflex, to anything delivered by the host in the manner of a punch or laugh line.
That’s all we have here.
I think that’s the thing about it that prevents it from being dismissed as “all we have here”.
He didn’t deliver it in the manner of a punchline, he said it as straight as I’ve ever seen him say anything.
But it was so outrageously and obviously untrue that even his uber leftist audience recognized it as so and couldn’t help themselves but to laugh as if it were a punch line.
And his reaction was priceless: he was shocked that they laughed. My guess is because he fully expected them to play along with his fantasy, but they couldn’t.
As I said…sometimes when someone says something funny, intentional or not, you just can’t stop from laughing out loud…even if it’s inappropriate to do so at the time.
It’s just like when a greasy fat guy with scars tells a butcher he has a nice little shop and it would be a shame if anything happened to it. The truth of what he is implying is obvious to everybody, even an audience like Colbert’s. There are some lies that are so broad that even the stupidest people immediately recognize them.
Even Colbert knows CNN is not objective. You can hear it in the way he slightly stumbled, hesitated, and then subtly emphasized the word.
The audience picked up on it and assumed it was intentional, and therefore a laugh line.
But it was neither intentional nor a laugh line. He meant for it to be serious but couldn’t maintain the facade.
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