Montage: Late night hosts slam pro-lifers, rip into Supreme Court over recent rulings
Chelsea Handler, Seth Meyers, and more hurled insults at SCOTUS and made crude jokes about pro-life advocates.
Late-night hosts spent Monday evening hurling insults at the U.S. Supreme Court over recent rulings on concealed carry laws, religious freedom, and abortion, and seized on the opportunity to push politics instead of comedy.
Jimmy Kimmel fill-in Chelsea Handler, an outspoken pro-choice actress, urged the audience to donate to Planned Parenthood and engage in political activism in defiance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. She also unleashed on pro-lifers who held up signs offering to adopt babies, comparing them to friends who say they want to grab drinks, but don’t ever really follow through.
"After Roe v. Wade got overturned some pro-lifers have been posting pictures of themselves holding up signs like this, that say ‘please don’t abort… we will adopt your baby,'" Handler said as she displayed a picture of a couple smiling with the poster.
"There is some other fine print though," Handler continued. "It says offer not valid if baby is black, brown, gay or already out of the womb."
Pictured: Comedian Chelsea Handler during an interview on Monday, October 11, 2021 (Sean Gallagher/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
She added that pro-lifers offering to adopt babies is one of "the creepiest sentences" she’s ever heard.
Meanwhile, NBC late-night host Seth Meyers set his sights specifically on the Supreme Court justices who held the majority opinion on Dobbs. He began his "Closer Look" segment fuming, "The right to bodily autonomy of women and pregnant people was incinerated by a corrupt gang of unaccountable, right-wing theocrats who definitely think ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was a comedy."
He subsequently likened Justice Samuel Alito to "the racist neighbor" who calls the police when someone’s leaves blow onto his lawn and described Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a "sniveling rich kid."
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Host Seth Meyers during the monologue on December 16, 2021 (Photo by: Lloyd Bishop/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
CBS "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert, who said the country had returned to "Medieval Times" on Monday, also discussed the Supreme Court during an interview with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
After returning from a commercial break, Colbert told Ocasio-Cortez he wanted to discuss the "insane" and "distressing" news coming out of the Supreme Court.
"The Supreme Court has thrown out a 109-year-old New York gun law that has stood among Democratic administrations, Republican administrations, but they’ve tossed it out and are ready to turn the city into a shooting gallery," Colbert said.
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Stephen Colbert for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert appears at the 73RD EMMY AWARDS, broadcast Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (Cliff Lipson/CBS via Getty Images)
He also claimed that the Court’s decision to side with ex-Bremerton High School football assistant coach Joseph Kennedy, who was fired for saying post-game prayers on public school grounds, meant that the Court had "brought prayer back into the schools."
In comparison to his fellow late-night comedians, "Daily Show" host Trevor Noah was significantly less vocal about recent politics. Noah did not mention the Supreme Court or abortion, until the very end of his show when he displayed abortion resource information on the screen before credits rolled.
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