Stephen Colbert ’s “Late Show” audience booed heartily at the very mention of Elon Musk and his effort to shrink the federal government via the Department of Government Efficiency. As jeers filled the room, Colbert snarked: “That is the sound of Tesla sales plummeting .”

Colbert stated that Musk has been firing people so randomly that the government is now “trying to hire a bunch of them back.” He pointed to the CDC recently emailing 180 fired

In the clip above, Stephen Colbert responds to U.S. Republican Randy Weber's poem praising Elon Musk with a decidedly less complimentary poem of his own. "His claim to fame, hi-tech machines / His only friends,

Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert repeatedly attacked Elon Musk at the beginning of Thursday night's The Late Show, joking about his ever-growing family and the millions of people who have come out against the Tesla billionaire's takeover of the federal government.

"No!" Colbert interjected. "Disruption is when your cable goes out during a storm. This is your cable guy burning your house to the house to the ground between the hours of noon a