Colbert on Mike Johnson’s wife: ‘If possible, just as weird as her husband’

Stephen Colbert on new House speaker Mike Johnson: ‘Not alone in his backward views.’ Photograph: YouTube

Stephen Colbert

Late-night hosts celebrated Halloween on Tuesday evening with digs at those who hand out anything other than candy for trick-or-treating, such as the first lady, Jill Biden, who handed out books at the White House. “Boo! Don’t give kids books on Halloween,” said Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “No one wants to suck on a copy of Catcher in the Rye! It’s phoney.”