Colbert couldn't contain his joy over Sean Hannity being named as Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's mystery client

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It was the revelation that near-knocked Stephen Colbert out with glee: Fox News personality Sean Hannity has been named as the third, previously secret client of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal attorney at the centre of the controversy of a 2016 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

It had already been revealed that Mr. Cohen, described by Colbert as a "sad neck with hair", represented former Republican National Committee deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy, who stepped down from the post last week after it was reported that Mr. Cohen had facilitated a $1.6 million payment to a pregnant, former Playboy playmate in 2017.

However, Mr. Cohen was ordered in court to reveal Hannity as his previously undisclosed client, the revelation leaving Colbert prostrate on a leather recliner nursing a celebratory glass of wine.

"Jon Stewart, after the show, I'm going to come over and we're just going to spoon," he declared. "Just spoon! This is crazy. Cohen only has two other clients and all he does for them is pay off mistresses, which raises the obvious question: who did Sean Hannity have sex with?"

Hannity, following the court revelations, tweeted that he had "brief discussions" with Mr. Cohen before, but that the lawyer had never represented him as an attorney.

"Michael Cohen has never represented me in any matter. I never retained him, received an invoice, or paid legal fees," Hannity wrote on the social media platform. "I have occasionally had brief discussions with him about legal questions about which I wanted his input and perspective."

"I assumed those conversations were confidential, but to be absolutely clear they never involved any matter between me and a third-party," he wrote in another tweet.

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