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W<\/span>hile ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel from the air \u201cindefinitely\u201d over comments on Charlie Kirk, the other late-night hosts talked Robert F Kennedy\u2019s vaccine chaos and Kash Patel\u2019s disastrous hearing on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n Stephen Colbert opened Wednesday\u2019s monologue with an announcement from Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, that in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, the justice department would target hate speech. \u201cAnd conservatives were not thrilled by this news,\u201d said Colbert. The conservative commentator Brit Hume posted on X: \u201cSomeone needs to explain to Ms Bondi that so-called \u2018hate speech,\u2019 repulsive though it may be, is protected by the First Amendment. She should know this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cYes, the founders wanted even repulsive speech protected,\u201d the Late Show host joked. \u201cThat\u2019s why Ben Franklin wrote: \u2018There is no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Hey, James Madison, the dog pound called, they caught your wife again. Boom! Ya just got Frankl\u2019d.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Colbert then pivoted to falling childhood vaccination rates across the US. \u201cWe have successfully cured a myriad of childhood diseases and we\u2019re just deciding not to use it any more,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat other scientific advances are people going to toss out next? \u2018I\u2019ve done my own research, thank you, and I am not comfortable letting my children use \u2018the wheel\u2019. Before they leave for school on an ox-drawn sledge, I always remind them: fire bad!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Colbert blamed, in part, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services secretary, who has \u201cthrown our public health agencies into complete chaos, forcing out career health experts\u201d.<\/p>\n To wit, the Senate heard testimony from the recently fired head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Susan Monarez, who said that Kennedy called Trump every day to talk about changing the childhood vaccine schedule. \u201cHe called the president every day?\u201d Colbert exclaimed, imagining such a phone call: \u201cBobby, why are you calling the president of the United States at 4 o\u2019clock in the morning? I\u2019m busy tweeting an AI video of me as a talking baby fighting a lion that\u2019s on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Trump still can\u2019t shake the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, so this week Congress heard testimony from Kash Patel,\u201d said Desi Lydic on the Daily Show. \u201cAnd if I know anything about Kash Patel, it\u2019s that he can smooth everything over.\u201d<\/p>\n Lydic then cut to several clips of the embattled FBI director getting into shouting matches with several lawmakers on Capitol Hill over his refusal to release the Epstein files. One asked: \u201cWhy are you protecting pedophiles?\u201d To which Patel replied: \u201cThat is maybe the most offensive thing you could say to me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat is maybe<\/em> the most offensive thing you could say to me?\u201d Lydic laughed. \u201cPatel is like, listen, there\u2019s a lot you can say about me \u2013 like I\u2019m the only person who looks dumber wearing glasses, or how I only got this job because Trump thought I was Dinesh D\u2019Souza. But I almost felt bad for Patel. He had to convincingly pretend that his boss had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein, and he was not up for the task.\u201d<\/p>\n For instance, Patel repeatedly said he did not know how many times Trump\u2019s name appeared in the files, but also dismissed certain numbers out of hand. Asked if it was 1,000 or 500 times, Patel said: \u201cI don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s not that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, yeah, it\u2019s not that,\u201d Lydic joked, mimicking Patel. \u201cEveryone just needs to calm down, OK? The president\u2019s name appears in the pedophile sex crime report a normal number of times: somewhere between one and \u2018hey, look over there!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n And on Late Night, Seth Meyers noted that Trump thinks companies shouldn\u2019t be forced to report earnings every quarter. \u201cOr as NBC is hoping, ever?\u201d he joked of his own network.<\/p>\n Kathy Hochul, the governor of New York, announced that this was the safest summer on the New York City subways in at least 15 years, \u201cbecause you can\u2019t get mugged on a train that never shows up\u201d, Meyers quipped.<\/p>\n According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, toxic fumes are leaking into airplanes and making passengers and crew sick, \u201cthough if you\u2019re flying Spirit, they\u2019re happy to crack a window\u201d, Meyers joked.<\/p>\n In a recent post on Truth Social, Trump praised his son Eric for his new book, Under Siege: My Family\u2019s Fight to Save Our Nation, which allegedly hit No 1 for memoirs on Amazon. \u201cSo congratulations to the book\u2019s author,\u201d Meyers said next to the logo for ChatGPT.<\/p>\n And the former MMA fighter Conor McGregor announced this week that he had withdrawn from the Irish presidential race after \u201ccareful reflection\u201d. \u201cOr as it\u2019s known in Ireland: sobering up,\u201d said Meyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel from the air \u201cindefinitely\u201d over comments on Charlie Kirk, the other late-night hosts talked Robert F Kennedy\u2019s vaccine chaos and Kash Patel\u2019s disastrous hearing on Capitol Hill. 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