UPDATED with video: Stephen Colbert tried a new approach to late-night-TV grieving after a mass shooting and inevitable congressional inaction – hopefully signaling a daypart-wide change from the pause for heartfelt monologu-ing that has become de rigueur in in daypart.

“After the attacks in Orlando, I thought maybe the government might do their job and pass any kind of law – even a fig leaf to justify their existence,” Colbert began, the day after senators failed to scare up enough bipartisan support to pass a series of gun control measures.

“I know how hard it must be to be in the senate and find common ground in such a politically fraught issue and — You know what? F*ck that. I’m going to take the gloves off.”

And then he did: