Bruce Springsteen lobt Stephen Colbert als „den ersten Mann in Amerika, der seine Show verloren hat, weil wir einen Präsidenten haben, der keinen Witz verträgt.“

Springsteen:

> “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can’t take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”