It was about 15 minutes into Monday's edition of The Late Show before host Stephen Colbert could bring himself to talk about Sunday's horrific mass shooting at a Texas church. And he seemed far from ready to make any jokes about it.
"The world is a harrowing place and sometimes you just don't know what to say about it," Colbert said. "For instance, I haven't the slightest idea how to adequately address the attack in

will ever know why that happened, or if anyone can ever explain why any of this happens."