Late-Night Lambasting: Colbert Takes on Trump
Stephen Colbert’s profanity-laced rant was a disgrace to CBS and the American people (“Eye for an eye,” May 3).
He is supposed to be a comedian, yet he did not say one funny thing. I can laugh at a good joke, but his monologue was just a political attack.
If anyone should be thankful for Donald Trump being elected, it’s Colbert. He was on his way to being fired for low ratings until Trump won, and then he went into attack mode and all the liberals started watching. Bruce Collins Tom’s River, NJ
Just when I thought it wouldn’t get any worse, it did. Colbert’s rant was one of the most disgusting, disrespectful and upsetting things I’ve heard coming out of the election yet. As an American, I’m embarrassed.
Advertisers and CBS should abandon this disgrace of a man. Dori Harasek Staten Island
Our president, certainly in a position that requires behavior showing more decorum than that of a comedian, made jokes about grabbing women, incited violence at his rallies, attacked our judicial system and judges and acts as if he is a 6-year-old bully.
So why should a latenight comedian be censored for vigorously criticizing the president’s dangerous actions, when the president himself shows no restraint? At least Colbert is intelligent, consistent and truthful. Susan Leelike Manhattan
I agree that Colbert should be given latitude in blasting the president. Yet I find his rant odd, since Trump attacked a CBS show, not an individual. Would Colbert find it funny if Trump or anyone else attacked his sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, for losing her election to Mark Sanford? Now there is good material for some jokes. Glen Benjamin Airmont
Colbert’s vulgarity was unlike anything I’ve seen hurled at a president of the United States.
I hope advertisers will object to his destructive behavior. More important, it’s time Democrats grow up and accept that they lost.
I don’t remember Republicans being so disrespectful when Barack Obama won in 2008. Bergit Thompson Whitehouse Station, NJ
I honestly thought we’d already seen the lowest of liberal rhetoric since the election. Then Colbert unleashed his tirade on Trump for having a colleague escorted out of the Oval Office.
Colbert, supposedly a professional, proved himself instead to be a total buffoon. This ongoing verbal assault aimed at demeaning Trump is only helping the Demo- cratic Party implode. Morons like Colbert are aiding the process. Ralph Manente The Bronx
The problem with talkshow hosts like Colbert is they have no shame and very little talent.
If Hillary Clinton had won the election, Colbert’s show would have been canceled by now. Nicholas Maffei Bronxville
In the past, Colbert has been identified as a devout Catholic and a breath of fresh air. As a Catholic, I’m ashamed of his comments and his filthy, disrespectful rant against the president.
He has shown himself to be nothing more than a vulgar comedian and a religious phony. I’m sure his children, whom he speaks about often in interviews, are so proud of their father. What a role model. Terry Dawson St. Petersburg, Fla.
Colbert is 100 percent correct in his description of Trump as a “gorilla that got hit in the head.”
Enough already of this disgusting, unqualified man inhabiting the Oval Office. He is bringing down America’s standing in the eyes of the world and of thinking Americans.
Do we really want a spoiled, bullying child treating the presidency as a dictatorship? I hope not. Brenda Nicholls Manhattan
Why did The Post put Colbert on the front page? The “Happy-potamuses” on Page 18 were funnier and cleaner than Colbert. John Buonagura Stewart Manor