Speaking on Thursday to Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in Philadelphia, Mr. Pai said, “I have had a chance to see the clip now and so, as we get complaints, and we’ve gotten a number of them, we are going to take the facts<br />that we find and we are going to apply the law as it’s been set out by the Supreme Court and other courts and we’ll take the appropriate action.”<br />Mr. Colbert, the host of “The Late Show” on CBS, has come under fire for a joke he told Monday night in his opening monologue, in<br />which he used coarse language to suggest a sexual relationship between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<br />Will Review Complaints About Colbert Joke, Chairman Says -<br />By DAVE ITZKOFFMAY 5, 2017<br />Ajit Pai, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, said in a radio interview<br />that his agency was reviewing complaints about a controversial joke told by Stephen Colbert, the CBS late-night host, to determine if further action was warranted.<br />While obscene content is “prohibited by law at all times of the day,” indecent<br />and profane content are prohibited “between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience”<br />Taking its instruction from the Supreme Court, the F. C.C.<br />says obscene content, “must appeal to an average person’s prurient interest; depict or describe sexual conduct in a<br />‘patently offensive’ way; and, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.”<br />A press representative for CBS declined to comment on Friday evening.
