"This firing is probably, and I hope you're sitting down, illegal," Colbert says during Tuesday's "The Late Show"

On Tuesday’s (February 18) episode of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert joked that things are so bad right now that the “lightest” news story he could find to open his monologue with involved a plane crash.

As anyone familiar with the CBS host would assume, Stephen Colbert told his audience "I'm a little stressed these days," obviously referencing the state of things in America. After explaining how he and his "The Late Show" writers keep their spirits up in part by finding a 'light story' to write jokes about,