Stephen Colbert Burns, Tucker Carlson named one big difference between them

Stephen Colbert returned from a week’s vacation and couldn’t wait to share the most important news while he was gone.

“We haven’t been on the air for a week. You know who else has it?” Colbert asked on Monday night. “Tucker Carlson!”

The audience applauded wildly.

“The difference is that I’m allowed to come back,” Colbert said.

Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson“I can’t believe I can finally say this on TV,” Colbert said. “I kept it to myself for a week. I feel like I just peed the best piss I’ve ever had in my life.”

Fox News did not give any reasons for parting ways with Carlson, but Colbert noted one report that the right-wing network did not like his “thinly veiled racism”.

“Thinly Veiled?” he said incredulously. “No wonder they went crazy. Fox likes it when their racism is severely cut.”

Colbert addressed some of the other theories of Fox and Carlson’s divorce in his Monday Night Late Show monologue: