Stephen Colbert Trolls Fox News Over An All-Time Embarrassing Moment

Stephen Colbert spotted a truly uncomfortable moment on Fox News over the weekend as the right-wing network’s hosts defended Kanye West  then had to furiously backtrack .

Fox News has been pumping up West, who changed his name to Ye in 2021, since his interview last week with Tucker Carlson . Then, the rapper posted on social media that he would be “going death con 3” on Jewish people. 

As Colbert noted, the hosts of “Fox & Friends ” on Sunday defended West after those posts, claiming he was the “target of big tech because he’s too dangerous and too outspoken and too much of a free thinker.” 

Then they actually read West’s posts. 

“Let’s say I hope they didn’t pull a hammy backpedaling this fast,” Colbert said, as he played comments of the hosts rapidly distancing themselves from West.

But Colbert wouldn’t let them.

“Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh,” he said wagging a finger. “Kanye is your free-thinker! You threw a pity party and invited a guy who always poops in the punch bowl. Now, you’ve gotta drink it. L’chaim!” 

Check it out in his Monday night monologue: