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# Stephen Colbert Leaks Drawings from Sean Spicer's No-Camera Press Briefing

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## Melissa Locker


Jun 27, 2017 2:43 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jun 27, 2017 2:43 PM UTC

Now that some press briefings have been off-limits to live broadcasts, Stephen Colbert was left to imagine the goings on at some of White House Press Secretary [Sean Spicer’s](http://time.com/4826069/sean-spicer-donald-trump-russian-interference-2016-election/?iid=sr-link9) briefings.

“[Spicer](http://time.com/4824455/sean-spicer-white-house-press-secretary/?iid=sr-link2) banned cameras from last week’s briefing and then banned them again today,” Stephen Colbert joked on Monday night’s episode of _The Late Show._ “Evidently while I was in Russia, we turned into Russia!”

Last week, in order to cover the conference, [CNN sent a sketch artist](https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/878336497593704449) to draw the proceedings. 

“Something tells me that won’t be the last member of the Trump administration we see in a courtroom sketch,” quipped Colbert. 

He also said that CNN wasn’t the only group to send an artist to the press conference, and proceeded to leak a few hand-drawn renditions of some of the highlights of [Spicer’s meeting](http://time.com/4826069/sean-spicer-donald-trump-russian-interference-2016-election/?iid=sr-link9) with the press, including illustrations from Six Flags’ caricature artist, Edvard Munch, _Dilbert_ cartoonist Scott Adams, and, naturally famed child portrait photographer Anne Geddes.

Watch he full clip below.

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