The Media Research Center’s resident comedy cop, Alex Christy, when into this year’s policing of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show the way he ended the previous one — by complaining that Colbert isn’t far-right enough. Here’s how that looked in the first couple months of 2026:
- Colbert Hails ‘Forward-Looking Feminist Agenda’ Of The Soviet Union
- Colbert Suggests Second Amendment Supporters Are Hypocrites After ICE Shooting
- Colbert And Spanberger: ICE Ops Are Meant ‘To Harass And To Instill Fear’
- Colbert Hosts Sanders For a Four-Segment Long Softball Interview
- ‘They’re Shooting People’: Colbert and Fonda Give Unhinged Anti-ICE Rants
- Colbert Tees Up Guest To Promote General Strike To Oppose ICE
- Colbert Reflects On ‘Incredible Gift’ Of Being Able To Talk To Democrats
- Colbert Mocks Johnson For Not Speaking Ojibwe While Demanding Immigrant Assimilation
- Colbert Claims Prince Andrew Was Arrested For What Trump Campaigned On
Christy also complained when Colbert complained about how President Trump’s toady FCC chief inserted himself into politics in a Jan. 23 post:
Over on CBS, Colbert sang a similar tune, “Today, I gotta watch what I say about Trump, because Johnny Law is once again coming after yours truly. Yesterday, there was a… new announcement from FCC Chair and disappointed testicle, Brendan Carr. The New York Timesdescribed the announcement this way: ‘FCC targets Colbert and Kimmel in a new crackdown on late night TV.’”
Colbert then, almost certainly unintentionally, made a decent point, “What? What? A new crackdown on late night TV? That has enormous implications for me for four more months! Good luck, Jimmy! So—See ya! See ya, suckers!”
He also added, “So, let’s talk about these new crackdown rules that my lawyer warned me not to talk about. The FCC is announcing plans to enforce long-dormant rules on appearances by political candidates on network talk shows. Oh, no. They’ve awakened the long-dormant rules, not seen since the mind-bending horrors of the pre-Euclidian variety show ‘Cthulhu Tonight!’ This is clearly an attempt to silence me, Jimmy, Seth.”
The law in question says the equal time requirement takes effect 45 days prior to a primary and 60 days prior to a general election, so as he said, any FCC action on this front would not affect Colbert, at least when it comes to November’s general elections. Despite the freakouts, the prospect of state-run comedy is highly unlikely because the equal time regulation is not likely to have that much of an effect on Kimmel and Seth Meyers. The law is about candidates, not politicians or even liberals generally.
We don’t recall Christy defending the equal-time rule when applied to right-wing talk radio.
Christy groused some more in a Jan. 29 post:
The Nazi allegations directed towards ICE and Border Patrol have been coming in hot this week from the late night comedy shows, and CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel saw no reason to stop on Wednesday. Additionally, Kimmel would later welcome MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough to spread some fake news about the shooting of Renee Good.
Colbert was up first, and he declared, “I don’t have to tell any of you, it’s been a hell of a week. I’m sorry, I read that wrong. It’s been hell. Right now, Minnesotans are still being terrorized by Trump’s goons, and it’s not entirely clear when it will end. In the wake of two murders by anti-immigration agents, Trump has removed Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino, seen here embodying Coco Chanel’s famous motto: ‘I love Nazis.’”
Apparently Colbert did not get the CBS memo about using the word “murder” to describe something that has not been formally proven in court.
Weird, Christy has never called out his employer for attacking its critics as “digital brownshirts.”