Hours after Empire actor Jussie Smollett was arrested for filing a false report in connection to what police believe was a staged hate crime, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert summarized the complex case with three words: “What a dick.”

The comedian recapped the bizarre incident in his monologue Thursday, detailing how Smollett allegedly paid two men — who are also black — to “attack” him on January 29th at the entrance of Chicago’s Loews hotel because, as police said, he was “dissatisfied with his salary.” The actor told authorities that...