Stephen Colbert is making it clear he isn’t Les Moonves’ “guy” anymore.
“The head of this network, Leslie Moonves, was forced to step down,” the host of CBS’s “The Late Show” said during his Monday night opening monologue. “This came after a second Ronan Farrow expose featured more women accusing him of sexual harassment and assault.”
Colbert called the allegations detailed in The New Yorker piece “extremely disturbing.”
“I’m not surprised that that’s it. Les Moonves is gone,” the funnyman said.
CBS said on Sunday that Moonves was stepping down as CEO and chairman after being accused of sexual abuse or misconduct by more than a dozen women.
In the latest expose, one woman charged that during a work meeting in 1988, Moonves left to get a glass of wine and returned without pants — and aroused.
“That is an impressive way to open a bottle of wine,” Colbert joked about the ordeal.
When the first six women came forward in July, Colbert called Moonves “my guy.”
“He hired me to sit in this chair,” Colbert said at the time, but added: “I like working for him, but accountability is meaningless unless it’s for everybody. Whether it’s for the leader of a network or the leader of the free world.”
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