I have to admit, though I'm not a regular viewer of the late night talk shows, I enjoy Stephen Colbert more than any other late night host since, well, since David Letterman, whom Colbert replaced. And I was mostly a big Letterman fan during the early years of his career, when I was young and inclined to stay up late on a regular basis.
I happened upon the Colbert show last week on a day when he'd invited Jon Stewart, previously host of Comedy Central's daily show (which reminds me, I like Trevor Noah, the new host over there, quite a bit as well) and quite a few other veterans of the Daily Show -- Samantha Bee, etc -- onto the show to have a bit of a love fest for their former mentor. This all happened a few days after there had been some kerfuffle over an off color joke Colbert had made about Trump.
Though I'm not familiar with the joke, I'm sure I would consider it fair game, given all the crude and insulting things Trump has said about other people over the course of his campaign (and career). But Jon Stewart himself came to Colbert's defense rather eloquently, I thought.
"For the life of me, I don't understand why we hold comedians to a higher standard than we hold leaders to," Stewart said. "We can insult. He can injure," he said, referring presumably to Trump.
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