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After Robert Mueller testified before Congress, late-night hosts were quick to add their commentary to the debacle during their Wednesday night shows.

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00:00Special counsel Robert Mueller testified for six hours in front of two different

00:05congressional committees. It was a marathon. I know my nipples were bleeding.

00:09Former special counsel Robert Mueller finally testified in front of Congress on Wednesday

00:14about his findings in the federal probe of Russia's 2016 election interference.

00:18And of course, the late night circuit had something to say about the whole debacle.

00:22During the Capitol Hill hearings, Mueller dismissed President Donald Trump's claims

00:26of total exoneration during his Russia probe, telling Congress he explicitly did not clear

00:30the president of obstructing his investigation as well as rejecting Trump's claims that the

00:35probe was a witch hunt. On late night with Seth Meyers, the host reacted to Mueller's testimony

00:39during his A Closer Look segment and was quick to point out that the former special counsel

00:43looked like he didn't even want to be there.

00:45He had the same look on his face that Billy Joel has when someone yells,

00:49Play Piano Man!

00:50Meyers was also a little confused during the hearing when Representative John Ratcliffe stated

00:54that Trump is neither above or below the law, saying that, um, isn't a thing.

01:00But if anyone could be below the law, whatever that means, it would be Donald Trump.

01:04Below the law sounds like a straight-to-video Steven Seagal movie starring Donald Trump.

01:10Over on The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert pointed out that the biggest bombshell of the

01:14night had nothing to do with the actual testimony, but rather the surprising revelation that

01:19Mueller had a pretty gangster nickname back in the day, Bobby Three Sticks.

01:23Hey, hey, not for nothing but Bobby Three Sticks is keeping an eye

01:28on Big Donnie Fishlips, head of the Trumpino crime family. Rumor has it,

01:33Donnie Fishlips is in cahoots with Vladdy No-Shirt.

01:36The host also noted that he only really had one issue with the hearings, and that was Mueller's

01:41choice of words. When asked to explain in plain terms to the American people whether the president

01:45was exonerated according to his report, Mueller definitely laid it out for us in layman's terms.

01:50That the president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed.

01:58Come on!

01:59Cobert said the former special counsel should use America talk to explain himself

02:04to the average American. In other words, an orange in handcuff emojis. Got it.

02:08Over on The Daily Show, Trevor Noah highlighted the Republicans' attempts to portray Mueller as biased

02:13and argued that the former special counsel couldn't be fair to Trump because he was friends with some

02:17of his enemies. When Rep. Louie Gohmert questioned Mueller about his relationship with former FBI

02:22director James Comey, Mueller simply replied that they were business associates, which Noah

02:27quipped probably wouldn't sit well with Comey.

02:29Imagine finding out your friend isn't your friend in front of a live national audience.

02:34Yeah, because in interviews, Comey was like, this guy's my ride or die. And now Mueller's like,

02:38we only hung out because he had a Nintendo, okay? When Mueller confirmed that Trump could still be

02:43charged on the obstruction of justice, Noah joked that means Trump is never going to leave office.

02:47Literally. The Secret Service is going to be banging on the Oval Office door like,

02:51sir, you need to leave. He'd be like, no housekeeping, thank you.

02:55All right, for more late night coverage, head over to THR.com.

02:57And until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Leah Joy.

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