Stephen Colbert is on record as not being a fan of controversial “pharmabro” Martin Shkreli. They’ve shared some Twitter barbs in the past after Colbert mentioned Shkreli on The Late Show, but now the host has a fresh reason to target the outspoken figure. Since Shkreli is close to facing his day in court, Colbert can now give him a similar treatment that he gave Alex Jones during the Infowars leader’s custody case. That includes making jokes about the potential jurors in the case and this court room sketch of Skreli that Colbert said made him look like “Gollum on trial for like, pooping in a mall fountain or something”:
He also goes into some classic Shkreli from his appearance in front of Congress, saying he’d like to “jack slap” the pharmabro until he is “de-douchified.” Something it would seem that a lot of people being questioned for the jury in his trial would want to do too. Colbert can’t help by laugh at the comments where people called Shkreli “evil” and said he looked like “a snake,” possibly because he said the same thing himself a few minutes earlier.
Even better, there is a good chance that Shkreli could respond to this in some form. He apparently can say and do whatever he wants and does so in spite of his lawyer’s pleas that he keep quiet. We could see him hire a sky writer to write barbs about Colbert in the sky before flooding the city with Joker venom or something. The possibilities are endless, though his lawyer likely wishes they were not.
(Via The Late Show)