“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert provoked laughter from his audience when he praised CNN for allegedly being “objective.”
There was one problem, however – Colbert wasn’t joking.
Colbert humiliated himself while interviewing CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday night.
When he tried to suggest that CNN is “objective” in its reporting on presidential candidates because the network’s reporters “just report the news as it is,” the New York City audience cracked up.
Collins appeared on the late-night comedy show where she discussed learning about President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 race.
She also discussed the media’s relationship with President Donald Trump and how Kamala Harris had shaken up the 2024 race.
Collins claimed that the Trump campaign had been thrown off by the sudden change of the Democrat nominee after Biden stepped aside last month.
However, Trump was among the first to predict that Harris would replace Biden on the ticket.
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 —”