TV host Stephen Colbert in trouble over 'homophobic' anti-Trump joke

LOS ANGELES: Popular talk show host Stephen Colbert is being investigated by authorities after he cracked a controversial "homophobic" joke about US President, Donald Trump.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is conducting a probe on the 52-year-old presenter of 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' after he received backlash for his comments deemed as against the homosexuals by many viewers.

According to Variety, Colbert is in the line of fire despite his series falling outside the agency's "safe harbour" timeframe of 6AM to 10PM.

In his monologue, "The Late Show" host had said the only thing Trump's "mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c*** holster", which was followed by a #FireColbert hashtag on social media.

Colbert, however, later said he would have changed "a few words that were cruder than they needed to be" if he would do the monologue again.