{"id":2324630,"date":"2026-03-12T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2324630"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:54:20","slug":"stephen-colbert-rejects-his-audiences-pity-after-iran-war-joke-gets-lukewarm-reaction-smattering-of-applause-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/stephen-colbert-rejects-his-audiences-pity-after-iran-war-joke-gets-lukewarm-reaction-smattering-of-applause-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert Rejects His Audience\u2019s \u2018Pity\u2019 After Iran War Joke Gets Lukewarm Reaction: \u2018Smattering of Applause\u2019 | Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stephen Colbert<\/a> playfully called out his studio audience for pitying him after one joke about the Iran war received a lukewarm reaction.<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s monologue for \u201cThe Late Show<\/a>,\u201d the comedian weighed in on President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s recent attempt to pitch his war to the press, as he seemingly couldn\u2019t decide what to call the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s both [a war and an excursion]. It\u2019s an excursion that will keep us out of a war,\u201d Trump defended in the clip aired on \u201cThe Late Show<\/a>.\u201d \u201cFor them [Iran] it\u2019s a war. For us, it\u2019s, uh, turned out to be easier than we thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to this unclear explanation from the president,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Colbert playfully called out his studio audience for pitying him after one joke about the Iran war received a lukewarm reaction. During Wednesday\u2019s monologue for \u201cThe Late Show,\u201d the comedian weighed in on President Donald Trump\u2019s recent attempt to pitch his war to the press, as he seemingly couldn\u2019t decide what to call the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2324631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2324630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Stephen-Colbert-Rejects-His-Audiences-\u2018Pity-After-Iran-War-Joke.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2324630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2324632,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324630\/revisions\/2324632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2324631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}