Stephen Colbert knows that some things just aren’t funny, but they can’t be ignored either.

In his opening remarks Friday on “The Late Show,” the host said he wanted to talk about pretending. “That is something that I know a little bit about,” he said to light laughter.

But his intro was merely a segue into brutally honest remarks on the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.

“I think that the least that we can do is not pretend to always know what to do or say. And in the face of the killings in Oregon yesterday, I honestly don’t know what to do or say,” he said.

“I think pretending is part of the problem,” he said later. “These things happen over and over again and we are naturally horrified and shocked when we hear about them, but then we change nothing and we pretend that it won’t happen again.”

Watch above for the full commentary.

H/T Uproxx

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