Former late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert says he’s a “criminal in New Zealand” after recently being pulled over for speeding.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Jimmy Kimmel Live a day after winning an Emmy for the cancelled Late Night with Stephen Colbert show, the American comedian called Aotearoa “the loveliest country”.<\/p>\n
“You can throw a dart anywhere on the map. It\u2019s so beautiful that you say, \u2018I should just live here and be a man\u2019 because it\u2019s very wild. It\u2019s very, very beautiful and the people make everyone else in the world seem like jerks. They\u2019re incredibly nice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Colbert went on to say he was now “criminal in New Zealand” after he was pulled over for speeding 45km\/h on a 30km\/h zone while picking up his wife and son from the airport.<\/p>\n
“I haven\u2019t been pulled over since I was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Kiwi cops were “the nicest people in the world”.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m sure they\u2019re very effective but this Kiwi cop pulled me over. I never got his name, and I got the ticket and I paid the ticket and … I just can’t impress upon you how nice they are while they also give you a ticket at the same time.”<\/p>\n
Colbert then re-enacted the interaction with his son John playing the officer \u2013 affecting a pseudo-Kiwi accent. <\/p>\n
He was fined $80 and received 20 demerit points on his licence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert says he’s a “criminal in New Zealand” after recently being pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,417],"class_list":["post-603054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}