Looks like Stephen Colbert is off the hook for making an eyebrow-raising gay sex joke he made about President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. According to SFGate, the Federal Communications Commission has no basis to sanction CBS for Colbert's comedic diatribe. Robert Corn-Revere is former FCC chief counsel and a partner at Davis Wright Tremaine in Washington D.C., He said that late-night shows like Colbert?s fall outside the FCC?s rules banning indecent speech, which only apply between 6 a.m.