{"id":181662,"date":"2025-10-06T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181662\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:29:15","slug":"stephen-colbert-trolls-jd-vance-with-shocking-ai-video-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/181662\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert trolls JD Vance with shocking AI video | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>\u00a0has shifted his political satire to new territory, targeting\u00a0<a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/news\/politics\/143235\/jd-vance-has-been-announced\" target=\"_blank\">Vice President JD Vance<\/a> with an AI-generated video after the late-night host accused <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> of pushing offensive memes.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert, whose Late Show was canceled by <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-express.com\/latest\/cbs\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a> earlier this year, opened his segment by highlighting a clip of Vance defending Trump\u2019s online behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Vance had dismissed concerns about the President\u2019s use of doctored images, which included showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and mustache.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I make this solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop,&#8221; Vance said.<\/p>\n<p>He characterized Trump\u2019s social media activity as &#8220;joking&#8221; and &#8220;having a good time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The gag referenced a long-circulating internet rumor that first gained traction during the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The false story claimed Vance had admitted in a memoir to a sexual encounter involving a latex glove and a couch cushion.<\/p>\n<p>The baseless allegation was widely debunked, but it resurfaced online as a viral meme during the election season.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert\u2019s bit leaned into that viral history, drawing laughs from his audience but also pushing the boundaries of televised comedy.<\/p>\n<p>The satirist has previously said he intends to hold the Trump administration to account through humor now that he no longer hosts a nightly network program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen Colbert\u00a0has shifted his political satire to new territory, targeting\u00a0Vice President JD Vance with an AI-generated video after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,80451,733,4308,58961,15025,80452,3767,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-181662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-generated-video","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-j-d-vance","13":"tag-jd-vance","14":"tag-political-satire","15":"tag-stephen-colbert","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}