--- title: Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah on Virginia Shooting VIDEO description: Following the shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice, Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah came together to discuss the attack. canonical: https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-15T15:06:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:31.512Z og:title: Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah Discuss the Virginia Shooting og:description: "It was great to see people from both sides seeing this and uniting" og:url: https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87408d4de3e1e84b/6988d1d8ab6d772e0b6ae95d/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah Discuss the Virginia Shooting twitter:description: "It was great to see people from both sides seeing this and uniting" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87408d4de3e1e84b/6988d1d8ab6d772e0b6ae95d/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah Came Together to Discuss the Virginia Shooting  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 15, 2017 3:06 PM UTC  Trevor Noah appears as a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Trevor Noah appears as a guest on The Late Show With Stephen ColbertScott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 15, 2017 3:06 PM UTC Following the [Wednesday shooting](http://time.com/4817818/steve-scalise-alexandria-shooting/) at a Republican congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., that left multiple people shot and hospitalized — including [House Majority Whip Steve Scalise](https://www.majoritywhip.gov/about-steve/), [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4816094/colbert-trump-cabinet-meeting/) and Trevor Noah came together to address the day’s events. While appearing as a guest on _The Late Show_, Noah was asked by Colbert for his thoughts on the attack. “It was great to see people from both sides seeing this and uniting under the banner of human and American before anything else,” he replied. “That’s one of the things that we’re seeing less and less of in society today, it feels like.” _The Daily Show_ host continued by encouraging both parties to more frequently put forth a message of unity. --- > “” --- Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah Came Together to Discuss the Virginia Shooting","datePublished":"2017-06-15T15:06:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:31.512Z","description":"\"It was great to see people from both sides seeing this and uniting\"","url":"https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","the late show","Late Night Television","trevor noah","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87408d4de3e1e84b/6988d1d8ab6d772e0b6ae95d/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt87408d4de3e1e84b/6988d1d8ab6d772e0b6ae95d/trevor-noah-stephen-colbert.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert","caption":"Trevor Noah appears as a guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert","creditText":"Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4819820/stephen-colbert-trevor-noah-virginia-shooting/","name":"Stephen Colbert and Trevor Noah Came Together to Discuss the Virginia Shooting"}}]}] ```