Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah found William Barr's Senate testimony frustrating. So Colbert stepped in.

Stephen Colbert grills William Barr, virtually
(Image credit: Screenshot/Twitter/The Late Show)

"Happy Bill Barr Day, everybody," Stephen Colbert said on Wednesday's Late Show. "I got you all the traditional gift: a bucket of lies." Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee grilling of the attorney general "was incredibly frustrating to watch, filled with legalistic hair-splitting and political ass-covering," Colbert said. "The hearing was always going to be contentious — we knew that" because on Tuesday night we found out that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had complained to Barr that his four-page summary of Mueller's report didn't accurately capture the "context, nature, and substance" of Mueller's work.

"Context, nature, substance — that is ... everything," Colbert said. "That's like saying: 'I really like what you did with this, you know, car — except the wheels, the engine, and the car.'" Still, he added, "it's nice to know that Mueller is as mad as we are."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.