Today’s indictment of
Donald Trump quickly became tonight’s punchline for TV’s late-night hosts. John Leguizamo guest-hosted
The Daily Show on
comedy Central and reveled in the news triggered by alleged hush-money payments to adult film star
Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential compaign. After showing a clip from a local
New York TV newscast, he said, “That’s right — Lady Justice grabbed Trump by the p*ssy. And you know I take a stance against mass incarceration, but for this I’m willing to make an exception. I just hope they take it easy on him and put him in a cell with his lawyer.” Related Story Donald Trump Indicted In Stormy Daniels Hush-Money Case; Ex-President Expected to Surrender Tuesday Watch here: Daily Show staff when Trump gets indicted 10 minutes before taping pic.twitter.com/CW41qP166l — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 30, 2023 Later, Leguizamo had New York Rep. Ritchie Torres on who, it turns out, seemed as well suited to hosting the show as guesting on it. Torres came armed with a multitude of pretty-good George Santos jokes, as well as one about Trump. “Of all the crimes he’s committed in his life,” said Torres, “I never thought in my wildest dreams that he would be taken down by hush payments to a porn star. So he’s like the Al Capone of
American Politics. Meanwhile, over on
NBC, The
Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon also weighed in on the big news of the day, posting a supercut mashup of Trump singing — and dancing — along to a tweaking version of a 1980s Pointer Sisters hit: Donald Trump: I’m So Indicted #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/UJu9vTmfB3 —
The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) March 30, 2023 But, unfortunately for NBC’s later late-night show: We live in crazy times, right? pic.twitter.com/cVAPLuiktn —
Late Night with
Seth Meyers (@LateNightSeth) March 30, 2023 CBS’ The
Late Show with
Stephen Colbert had some advice for the Manhattan District Attorney who brought the charges against the former Apprentice host: “Alvin Bragg better have some tiny handcuffs,” it tweeted. Another social post showed host Stephen Colbert enjoying Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, and something else: On #OpeningDay , the Manhattan DA hits it out of the park. #Colbert pic.twitter.com/aEzkWkTJxm —
The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March 31, 2023 Alvin Bragg better have some tiny handcuffs. — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) March 31, 2023 ABC’s
Jimmy Kimmel Live! tweeted a photo of a thirsty POTUS 45 taking a drink of water the only way he might be able to come Surrender Day: pic.twitter.com/Rjes3QKaMg — Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March 30, 2023 Even Fox News’ Gutfeld! chimed in — with a promo of who is on the show tonight: TONIGHT on #Gutfeld ! @ShannonBream , @larry_kudlow , @KatTimpf and @PlanetTyrus . Tune in at 11pm ET on @FoxNews ! pic.twitter.com/FKrTDFGd7j — Gutfeld! (@Gutfeldfox) March 30, 2023 We’ll add more video as it becomes available.