UPDATED: Stephen Colbert outraged online followers Thursday with an offensive-sounding and out-of-context tweet posted on The Colbert Report account. The message posted March 27 at 4:02 p.m. (screen shot below)
We can add Stephen Colbert to a long list of professional funny people who have leapt off the comedy high-diving board, hoping that there's water in the pool, only to crash into dry cement. Rosie O'Donnell, Jimmy Kimmel, Gilbert Gottfried, The Onion
stephen_colbert Around the time Stephen Colbert was suffering Twitter blowback related to promotion of one of his comedy bits mocking Dan Snyder's latest attempt to placate people angry over his unwillingness to change the name of his Washington team
0328-colbert-nguyen-getty-01 Stephen Colbert can try to blow off his "Ching Chong Ding-Dong" skit as a joke all he wants — former NFL All-Pro Dat Nguyen thinks Colbert NEEDS to apologize, and he's shocked he hasn't yet.
Whoever runs the “Colbert Report” Twitter account learned a valuable lesson Thursday night about the difference between tweeting a Stephen Colbert quote from the show, and tweeting a Stephen Colbert quote from the show taken completely out of context.