Colbert Returns and (With Famous Friends) Hits Back at CBS and Trump

Action last night....including very special guests trying to hel him with a Coldplay song....

Greg Mitchell’s new award-winning film, with a focus on nuclear dangers today, started streaming via PBS online and apps, and now airing on PBS stations. The companion e-book with the same title was published: “The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today.” It includes previously unpublished images and provocative material from the film and much more. Read more here. As our dear leader likes to say, “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

You will all want to see how Stephen responded in his first monologue after his abrupt firing by CBS. Well, as he hints, “the gloves are off.” And they are…What’s missing here is the show’s usual cold open video, this time revealing Trump’s plan to re-name the Washington Commanders the “Washington Epsteins”—with new teen cheerleaders…

Old buddy Jon Stewart (who could also face the axe), of course, also weighed in:

And Dave Letterman put together clips of when he used to mock CBS….

Plus Stephen was hailed musically in person last night with a Coldplay song by Weird Al Yankovic and Lin-Manuel Miranda, with a kiss cam spotlight on audience members Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon, Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and…Donald Trump?

Hard to top that so just one song, with cool new video for Nick Drake’s masterpiece “River Man,” now out in a new packaged set.

From Tunes to Toons for Today

Barry Blitt yesterday re-posted this one from a year ago.

Cathy Hull: