Late Show With Stephen Colbert Cancelled?

Members of a production team for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert were arrested earlier this week by the police as they filmed a comedy segment at the US Capitol, in an incident that was used by prominent right-wing voices to assail the probe into the January 6 insurrection.

In a statement, the police said they observed seven individuals, unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.

CBS also in a statement said, its crew were onside at the Capitol on Wednesday and Thursday as it filmed a segment featuring, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a puppet voiced by the comedian, Robert Smigel, They said their interviews with members of Congress had been authorised and arranged.

The show was cancelled a few weeks ago because Stephen Colbert had contracted COVID-19 again. The CBS show announced it would “not be taping new episodes until further notice” saying that Colbert is “experiencing symptoms consistent with a recurrence of Covid”.