The men of late night comedy struggled on their Monday shows to reconcile their support for President Joe Biden and his decision to pardon his son, Hunter. Some hosts decided to make the story about Republicans, while others made more “Biden is old” quips, while others welcomed the news, but hoped Democrats would apply the logic behind it to ordinary people too.
CBS’s Stephen Colbert declared on The Late Show, “I don’t know if that was the right thing to do, but you certainly earned that ‘World’s Greatest Dad’ mug.”
Colbert also theorized that “this pardon proves that with less than two months to go, Joe is officially out of malarkeys. And by ‘malarkys,’ I mean “[bleep].” I say he should go full bucket list. Just pardon everybody. Just load up those pardons to a nerf machine gun and go pop, pop, pop. Just hit ’em all. Pardon…
