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Late-night hosts handily tackled Thursday's biggest news story — the redacted Mueller report released by The Justice Department, the result of a two-year investigation and the subject of endless speculation in the late-night world.

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00:00I have reason to believe that these responses were not actually written by Donald Trump

00:05because, uh, they're written.

00:12The week's biggest story was undoubtedly the redacted Mueller report, which was released

00:16by the Justice Department after a two-year investigation into possible Russian

00:20interference in the 2016 election. On Thursday's episodes of their respective

00:24late-night shows, the host tackled the topic with jokes in their opening monologues

00:27and discussions with special guests that broke down the details of the report.

00:31While much of the sensitive information that was included in the report was redacted,

00:35we were treated to the revelation that Trump's face went from orange as a glass of sun-kiss

00:38to white as a ghost when he learned that Mueller would be heading up the investigation.

00:42Apparently, Donnie feared that the probe would herald the end of his presidency and that

00:46he was f***ed. On the bright side, at least he was being f***ed by something because we all

00:50know Melania hasn't touched him since she conceived Barron. The report also argued that

00:54the president on multiple occasions tried to convince people to influence or stop the

00:57investigation. Referring to the report's conclusion that the Trump team acknowledged

01:01that they would benefit from possible Russian interference but didn't actively

01:04collude with the foreign power, the late show host Stephen Colbert joked,

01:08"...they were like the little dog on the kitchen floor waiting for the big dog to knock

01:12the steak of democracy off the counter."

01:14Colbert then took aim at Attorney General William Barr for stating in a press conference

01:18that Mueller did not make his decision on obstruction based on at least in part on the Justice

01:22Department's Office of Legal Counsel ruling not to indict a sitting president, despite the

01:26fact that the report mentions the OLC ruling as a factor in the conclusion.

01:30"...so Barr stood up there and knowingly said a bald-faced lie. The president must be so proud."

01:38On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Mayor Pete Buttigieg shared his reaction to the Mueller report,

01:42saying,

01:42"...I mean, I guess it confirmed a lot of things that we were worried about, that we have a

01:46president who acts in a self-serving way, that there was a lot of behavior that was at best

01:50unethical and legally unethical, to put it charitably, and the way that the Attorney General

01:54conducted himself as though he were the personal attorney to the president was incredibly troubling

01:58too." At the same time, he continued,

02:00"...I think politically I'm not sure it will change much."

02:03And it's one more reminder that if we really want to send Trumpism into the history books,

02:09the best thing we can do is defeat it decisively at the ballot box in 2020.

02:14Over on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host joked about the length of the Mueller report.

02:17"...as you probably know, the Mueller report is out. It's 448 pages long."

02:23"...say what you will about this president, he does have Americans reading again."

02:26Bringing up the revelation that Trump apparently stated that the Mueller report was the end

02:31of his presidency, which of course, sadly, it was not, Kimmel said,

02:34"...but he also said, he said, this is the worst thing that ever happened to me,

02:38and I assume that includes Donald Jr. being born."

02:41Meanwhile, on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon sang a Mueller report-inspired rendition of the

02:45Rolling Stones song, I Can't Get No Satisfaction.

02:47To watch full clips of late-night hosts reacting to the redacted Mueller report, head to THR.com.

03:05For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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