Watch Stephen Colbert Explain How #CancelColbert Makes Him Just Like Jesus (Video)
Stephen Colbert jumped on the cooling ashes of the #CancelColbert nontroversy Monday, explaining that the out-of-context tweet was sent (and removed) by a Comedy Central account, not by him, but that he will nonetheless not bow to the "dark forces trying to silence my message of core conservative principles mixed with youth-friendly product placement." It's pretty funny, and we have it for you right here, because we are Good Americans.
Best moment (yeah, yeah, spoiler schmoiler): Colbert points out that in all the fuss over the out-of-context tweet, there wasn't much said about the actual target of the joke on his teevee show, the genuinely tone-deaf, unironic "Washington Redskins' Original Americans Foundation," which Colbert says “Twitter seems to be fine with, because I haven’t seen shit about that.”
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Yeah, well, meanwhile, I hear absolutely no flap at all about the National Association of <b>Colored</b> People. What&#039;s with that??!