Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Detained and Charged with Unlawful Entry to Capitol Hill Building

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TV crew charged in Capitol Hill incident, authorities say
Seven people were charged after a disturbance was reported Thursday night at the Longworth House Office Building, the U.S. Capitol Police said Friday in a statement.

The people were part of a group that had been directed by police to leave the building earlier in the day, the statement said.

A statement from CBS said: “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was on-site at the Capitol Wednesday and Thursday with a production team to record interviews for a comedy segment” on behalf of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

[Triumph may not have been there; it looks like this was a skeleton crew left behind to film some additional material who overstayed their welcome. But I need that headline.]

ETA: per the Hollywood Reporter, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was indeed among those arrested.

 

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Colbert on the incident:

“The Capitol Police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago — and for a very good reason,” Colbert said. “If you don’t know what that reason is, I know what news network you watch.”

[The incident] was similar to such “puppet lawlessness” as “The Great Muppet Caper” and “the ‘Fraggle’ riots of the 1980s.”

“But in this case, our puppet was just a puppet doing puppet stuff. And sad to say, so much has changed in Washington that the Capitol Police do have to stay at high alert all the time because of the attack on January 6th,” he said. “And as the hearings prove more clearly every day, the blame for that actual insurrection all goes to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s puppet.”