4.4 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, welcome one and all ladies and gentlemen to the late show. I'm your host, Steven Colbert. |
0:09.5 | It is... |
0:10.5 | It's, uh, 2023. This is, uh, tax day. 2023. For those of you who haven't done them yet, |
0:17.9 | you have about 23 minutes left to try to remember your turbo tax password. |
0:23.7 | Also, this is your last chance to declare any big transactions |
0:27.3 | that may have slipped your mind like did a right-wing billionaire buy your mom's house? |
0:32.6 | Be careful, okay? |
0:34.0 | Uh, oh, I know one company that's gonna have a big ol' tax ride off next year because about two |
0:39.7 | hours ago, Fox News settled their defamation suit with Dominion voting systems |
0:45.7 | averting a trial. Damn it! I want my trial! I want it! |
0:53.2 | You were supposed to provide me six weeks of delicious content! |
0:57.6 | I wanted to see Rupert Murdoch put his hand on the Bible and burst into flames! |
1:03.6 | According to Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch! |
1:11.5 | According to Dominion, the settlement was for our gargantuan $787.5 million. That's a lot of |
1:20.9 | Dominion. Admittedly, Rupert Murdoch is losing his shirt here, but nobody wanted to see that. |
1:29.3 | And I got some bad news, I got some bad news, folks, because reportedly Fox News will not have |
1:34.4 | to acknowledge on air that it told lies about Dominion in the wake of the 2020 election. |
1:41.0 | Boo! What they said! Boo! Boo, sir! Boo! I say! |
1:45.6 | And I guess it's satisfying, I mean, for Dominion, that Rupert had to fork over a pile of cash, |
1:50.0 | but that does nothing for our democracy. What we need is Fox News personalities to look |
1:54.5 | straight into the camera, admit that they lied over and over again about the 2020 election. |
2:07.5 | And then hurl themselves into Mount Doom. |
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