Colbert Responds to #CancelColbert With a Tongue-in-Cheek Mea Culpa

At the end of last week, Twitter's social justice warriors found a surprising target for their always fierce, often necessary and occasionally misguided anger when it landed on Stephen Colbert, the left's most beloved satirist, after a Comedy Central-run account for his show The Colbert Report tweeted the following:
What We Can Learn From the Embarrassing #CancelColbert Shitstorm
This week, The Colbert Report aired a segment skewering Washington Redskins' owner Daniel Snyder's pro-Native American charity that contains an anti-Native American slur ("Redskins") in its name by suggesting Colbert, inspired by Snyder, would be starting his own charity, the "Ching Chong Ding Dong Foundation for…
Late Night TV Gets a Clue: The End of All-White Male Writers' Rooms
When NBC announced last May that their next late night host would be Seth Meyers, reaction ranged from Yay, I love him to Meh to Great, another white guy. While Meyers looks like most everyone who has hosted before him, the next generation of late night hosts are quietly ushering in diversity. We just don't see it…
Pussy Riot to Colbert: Putin's Just a 'Shirtless Man on a Horse'
Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, the two members of Pussy Riot who were recently released from Russian prison after spending a total of 16 months in the country's penal colonies, all for the crime of performing a protest song in a church.
Uh-Oh: Jon Stewart Is Back, But Something Is...Wrong
Whoop whoop! Jon Stewart's finally back at The Daily Show after months away! Unfortunately, (just like your friend from middle school who came back from summer vacation suddenly too cool for you because she grew boobs) he's changed. He's tan, he has a beard now, he's forgotten he's American and can no longer speak…
Must See: Stephen Colbert Gets an Emergency Oppressed White Man Alert
It's important that we women and minorities check our privilege every once and awhile. While we're all living the good life over on Easy Street, there's an entire demographic — the American white male — that's suffering from the wage gap (it's hard being paid more than everyone else), racial profiling (do you know…
Duuuude: Salma Hayek Considered Her Baby Weight a 'Disfigurement'
In an interview with the magazine Glam Belleza Latina, Salma Hayek managed to make the 50 pounds she put on when she was pregnant with daughter Valentina in 2007 sound like she spent 6 months in a cage playing mah jongg with the pinheads in the 1932 movie Freaks.
Shady Polling Group Asks Smear Questions About Elizabeth Colbert Busch
Perhaps you’ve heard of Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democratic candidate in South Carolina’s upcoming special congressional election. If you don’t live in South Carolina’s first congressional district, you might only know that Elizabeth Colbert Busch is the sister of beloved AmeriCone Dream ice cream spokesman…
'Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe' Is an Awesome Response to 'Accidental Racist'
Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist" isn't all bad. As Stephen Colbert pointed out on last night's Colbert Report, it did indeed succeed in bringing people of different races together: "This song has united all Americans — not just Black and White, but Latino, Asian, Muslim, Pacific Islander, Inuit — all of us to join…
Stephen Colbert's Sister, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Wins the South Carolina Democratic Primary
There's always something a little unfair about when a family has multiple successful, brilliant and highly achieving children. You mean that the Sedarises get two comedic geniuses?! The Quaids get Dennis and Randy? Mona Simpson is Steve Jobs' sister and they didn't even know it until adulthood because Steve Jobs was…
Is Madonna a Saintly Third-World School Builder or a Nefarious Self-Aggrandizing Lie-Monger?
She's the latter, according to Malawi's Education Minister Eunice Kazembe. Kazembe says that Madonna claims she built ten schools for the children of Malawi, when the actual number of schools built by Madonna was zero schools. I don't completely understand why our gal Madge—who is clearly dedicated to philanthropy…
Stephen Colbert's Sister Is Running for Congress And I Want to Move to South Carolina so I Can Vote for Her
OMG. Amazing, incredible news! Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, Stephen Colbert's sister, is declaring herself a candidate in the South Carolina special election to be held in May to fill Tim Scott's open House seat. Senator Tim Scott is the crazy Tea Partier former congressman who was tapped by crazy Tea Partier current…
