Colbert Skewers Adelson as ‘Part-Time Kuato’; Meyers Jokes GOPers Are ‘Radicalized by ISIS’

Curtis Houck | December 17, 2015
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On Wednesday, the late-night comedy show hosts gave their thoughts on the previous evening’s Republican debate and, naturally, the jokes skewed to the left. Most prominent, Late Show host Stephen Colbert trashed conservative donor Sheldon Adelson as a “part-time Kuato” (a reference to the alien in the movie Total Recall) and Late Night host Seth Meyers joked that each of the nine major candidates “had definitely been radicalized by ISIS.”

On CBS’s The Late Show, Colbert dedicated his first commentary after the opening credits to both the GOP debate and attempting to name-check as many of his fellow CBS personalities as possible since the CBS Christmas party had also taken place on Tuesday.

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