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>> wow. as a stand-up comic, i'm thinking jimmy kimmel probably never dream head would be cited as the values to guide our public health legislation. but he has a large platform, and he is clearly putting it to the use he thinks is important. that's how many fans also feel about stephen colbert, another comic making waves right now. colbert drew controversy when he did the monologue imagining a crude rebuttal to donald trump after president trump issued a schoolyard taunt to to donald tr trump issued a school yard taunt to colbert's cole eeg, john dickerson. >> you attract more skinheads haas ...

So you won't even have to call us. change your wifi password to something you can actually remember, instantly. add that premium channel, and watch the show everyone's talking about, tonight. and the bill you need to pay? do it in seconds. because we should fit into your life, not the other way around. go to xfinity.com/myaccount steven colbert responding to the online backlash that includes fire colbert after his rant during his monologue monday night. his remarks criticized as lewd and offensive he began last night's show with a mea culpa. well sort of.

Was lagging kimmel and it certainly jimmy fallon until he discovered how vulnerable donald trump was, or rather how popular jokes about how his alleged or purported vulnerabilities were. now he has a soared andok he's taken at the step too far. what you did not air just now really is glaring in the fact that it is so homophobic, it is an oral joke involving thehe president of the united states on the receiving --he it is so harsh and beyond the pale that it is intolerable. >> sean: he is vile, he is crude, he's ugly, i think it's mean-spirited. he should be thanking donald trump because he rev...

Been more defensive because we've been friends for more than two decades about the treatments that you've had in the press, now you've got this fire colbert campaign started, i don't participate in boycotts. what he said was despicable, disgusting, just like so many other things that have been said about the president. i know you have been dismissive about personal attacks you've taken which i think have been pretty brutal and unfair. what about when you hear horrible things like that in the new see this effort now beginning. >> i saw your tweet earlier when you said you were boycotts or any t...

It's culminated in maybe i've been more defensive because we've been friends for more than two decades about the treatments that you've had in the press, now you've got this fire colbert campaign started, i don't t participate in boycotts. what he said was despicable, disgusting, just like so many other things that have been said about the president. i know you have been dismissive about personal attacks you've taken which i think have been pretty brutal and unfair. what about when you hear horrible things like that in the new see this effort now beginning.is >> i saw your tweet earlier when y...