--- title: Stephen Colbert Mocks Johnny Depp Apology Video description: On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert spoofed Johnny Depp's somber demeanor in a public apology to Australians for smuggling pet dogs into the... canonical: https://time.com/4298999/stephen-colbert-amber-heard-apology-australia-late-show/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-19T14:41:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:40.831Z og:title: Watch Stephen Colbert Apologize to Australia for Johnny Depp og:description: On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert spoofed Johnny Depp's somber demeanor in a public apology to Australians for smuggling pet dogs into the... og:url: https://time.com/4298999/stephen-colbert-amber-heard-apology-australia-late-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt505fbfdca389454f/69888fa8cf40a88efec42deb/stephen-colbert-johnny-depp-amber-heard-apology-australia.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: stephen-colbert-johnny-depp-amber-heard-apology-australia og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Stephen Colbert Apologize to Australia for Johnny Depp twitter:description: On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert spoofed Johnny Depp's somber demeanor in a public apology to Australians for smuggling pet dogs into the... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt505fbfdca389454f/69888fa8cf40a88efec42deb/stephen-colbert-johnny-depp-amber-heard-apology-australia.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Stephen Colbert Apologize to Australia for Johnny Depp  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 19, 2016 2:41 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 19, 2016 2:41 PM UTC On _The Late Show_ Monday night, Stephen Colbert [spoofed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeNeiWZNZwM) Johnny Depp’s somber demeanor in a public apology to Australians for smuggling pet dogs into the country. After the _Pirates of the Caribbean_ actor and wife Amber Heard made the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORpBAIB9j64) for the government’s department of agriculture as part of a plea deal, the country’s deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce [told Channel 7](http://time.com/4298692/barnaby-joyce-johnny-depp-apology-video-australia-dogs-amber-heard/) that the actor could have apologized with more “gusto,” adding that “he looked like he was auditioning for _The Godfather_._”_ So Colbert imagined what Depp would have said if he seemed more passionate about the bio-security laws designed to protect Australians—or a “proud island of exiled British degenerates,” as he called them. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4298999/stephen-colbert-amber-heard-apology-australia-late-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4298999/stephen-colbert-amber-heard-apology-australia-late-show/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Apologize to Australia for Johnny Depp","datePublished":"2016-04-19T14:41:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:40.831Z","description":"On The Late Show Monday night, Stephen Colbert spoofed Johnny Depp's somber demeanor in a public apology to Australians for smuggling pet dogs into the...","url":"https://time.com/4298999/stephen-colbert-amber-heard-apology-australia-late-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt505fbfdca389454f/69888fa8cf40a88efec42deb/stephen-colbert-johnny-depp-amber-heard-apology-australia.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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