[AnotherUnixGeek]

What I can’t understand is why the audience didn’t boo. They clapped and cheered in the excerpts I heard.

Colbert's audience is highly politicized and will clap like trained seals at anything hostile to non-liberals while congratulating themselves on how tolerant and woke they are.

[from occupied ga]

I was wondering how they got that sort of audience, but then when I thought about it it was obvious that they self selected. What conservative would want to listen to an hour of unrelieved no talent verbal attacks on his beliefs?