Production crew for Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” detained in congressional building near U.S. Capitol

A number of members of a manufacturing crew with for “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” had been detained Thursday evening in a congressional workplace constructing close to the U.S. Capitol, CBS stated Friday. The group was filming a comedy phase after they had been taken into custody, the corporate stated. 

U.S. Capitol Police informed CBS Information that officers responded to a “name for a disturbance” at 8:30 p.m. on the Longworth Home Workplace Constructing, the place they detained seven individuals who had been “unescorted and with out Congressional ID” in a sixth-floor hallway.

After figuring out the group weren’t Congressional staff — and had been requested to depart the constructing earlier within the day — they had been charged with illegal entry. Police stated a legal investigation is ongoing and will result in extra prices.  

Capitol Police didn’t launch any names and wouldn’t say if the suspects had been with “The Late Present,” which, like CBS Information, is part of Paramount International. However CBS stated Friday that the suspects had been a part of a manufacturing group which was recording a “Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine” comedy phase on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and Thursday.

The manufacturing group had carried out interviews earlier within the day that “had been licensed and pre-arranged by way of congressional aides of the members interviewed,” CBS stated in a press release. After leaving members’ workplaces, the group stayed to movie “stand-ups and different comedy components” earlier than they had been detained, the corporate stated. 

Photographs posted Thursday confirmed comic Robert Smigel, who voices the character of Triumph, within the halls outdoors the Jan. 6 Home choose committee hearings.

The incident got here a number of hours after the committee had wrapped up its third day of public hearings. The hearings are happening within the Cannon Home Workplace Constructing, one other congressional constructing situated straight throughout the road from the Longworth constructing.