They were part of a team filming a comedy segment for “Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.”
Several members of a production crew with for “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” were detained Thursday night in a congressional office building near the U.S. Capitol, CBS said Friday. The group was filming a comedy segment when they were taken into custody, the company said. U.S. Capitol Police told CBS News that officers responded to a “call for a disturbance” at 8:30 p.m. at the Longworth House Office Building, where they detained seven people who were “unescorted and without Congressional ID” in a sixth-floor hallway.
