Colbert, Stewart, and Kimmel observe January 6th

I anticipated the topic of today's post at the conclusion of PBS Terra explains 'How Scientists Solved the Mystery of a 300-Year-Old Megaquake'.

I expect the late-night talk show hosts will return from holiday break tonight, so stay tuned for their monologues tomorrow. Who knows, they might have something darkly funny to say about the anniversary of January 6th worth sharing.

They did. Watch Your Jan 6th Gift Guide, the cold open to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Every coup begins with Kay.

That definitely counts as "something darkly funny to say about the anniversary of January 6th worth sharing."

Colbert continued in his monologue, Jan 6, Trump's Day Of Love | Jeffries: We Will Fart Hard | Why Does Fun Stuff Cause Cancer?

Congress peacefully certified Donald Trump's electoral victory on January 6, 2025, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries made an embarrassing verbal misstep, and Stephen looks into some alarming news about alcohol.

"A day of love" — yeah, love for convicted criminal Donald Trump. His whitewashing and inversion of the attack on the Capitol is the new Big Lie, and enough people bought it that Trump got re-elected. When I called him "Hoover Cleveland — Hoover because he's the first U.S. President to have a net job loss during his term since Herbert Hoover, Cleveland because he's trying to repeat what Grover Cleveland achieved, earn a second non-consecutive term," I was going for a catchy mocking nickname, not a prediction!

While I'm not looking forward to Hoover Cleveland taking office again, I will miss Justin Trudeau. I'm rooting for Chrystia Freeland to replace him, but I'm not a Canadian. What do my Canadian readers think?

Now for Jon Stewart Unpacks The NOLA and Cybertruck Attacks & An Unusually Civil Jan. 6 | The Daily Show, which my wife and I watched last night.

Jon Stewart kicks off 2025 with an unusually civil Jan. 6 election certification, and right-wing media's desperate attempts to make the Bourbon Street attack about immigration. Plus, Jon unpacks the eerily normal digital footprints of recent terrorists and questions the internet's role in their radicalizations.

"Democracy now has pallbearers" — that also counts as "something darkly funny to say about the anniversary of January 6th worth sharing."

I might have more to say about the truck attacks by lone wolves beyond my sympathies to the victims, my worry that the connections between the two incidents are not just coincidences, and a cybertruck burning in front of a Trump building is just too on the nose for 2025 later. Instead, I'm concluding with Jimmy Kimmel's Trump Win Certified on Insurrection Anniversary, Trudeau Resigns & Guillermo vs Mario Lopez, who saved January 6th for last.

We’re back with a new show after our holiday break, people texting their holiday cards instead of mailing them, a rapper named 2 Low was on a podcast called “One on One with Mike D” and they gave us quiet a moment, Mario Lopez was handing out tequila shots on the Golden Globes red carpet and Jimmy has a bone to pick about it, the Golden Globes put up little facts about each of the presenters as they walked on stage, we have a new winner for tonight’s award for “Excellence in Reporting,” Justin Trudeau announced that he will step down as Prime Minister of Canada, Eric Trump turned 41 and Daddy Donald wrote a very heartfelt post on Truth Social, today is also the fourth anniversary of our Capitol being stormed by the Buffalo Wild Wing of the Republican party, Congress certified Donald Trump’s victory and Kamala Harris had to give the official sign off on Trump’s win as sitting VP, and Jimmy speaks to the “BlueAnon Shaman.”

"The Buffalo Wild Wing of the Republican party" — Ha! It only took four years for that joke, but I like it! On the other hand, the "BlueAnon Shaman" was just silly.

Here's to the comedians keeping us sane in the new year. We need it!