Hole in the Wall
Slaughter for Laughter
RECEIVED Mon., Jan. 20, 2020
Dear Editor,
Seeing that Stephen Colbert will be appearing at this year's SXSW reminded me of something he said nearly two years ago, which I recently came across ["SXSW Schedules Supernatural Retrospective, Stephen Colbert, and More," Daily SXSW, Jan. 13].
On March 29, 2018, during an interview with Dana Carvey, they both were laughing about a skit from The Dana Carvey Show involving Bill Clinton breastfeeding puppies, which resulted in millions of viewers switching channels. As they both laughed about this, Colbert said: "Wiped out our audience faster than Columbus did the Indians. Just genocide!"
I was shocked and saddened to hear Colbert laughingly speak anti-human garbage like this, and wrote to him about it; haven't yet heard anything back. I wonder if it's not too late to ask him to apologize, prior to his arrival at SXSW, for this sad, crude remark.
Seeing that Stephen Colbert will be appearing at this year's SXSW reminded me of something he said nearly two years ago, which I recently came across ["SXSW Schedules Supernatural Retrospective, Stephen Colbert, and More," Daily SXSW, Jan. 13].
On March 29, 2018, during an interview with Dana Carvey, they both were laughing about a skit from The Dana Carvey Show involving Bill Clinton breastfeeding puppies, which resulted in millions of viewers switching channels. As they both laughed about this, Colbert said: "Wiped out our audience faster than Columbus did the Indians. Just genocide!"
I was shocked and saddened to hear Colbert laughingly speak anti-human garbage like this, and wrote to him about it; haven't yet heard anything back. I wonder if it's not too late to ask him to apologize, prior to his arrival at SXSW, for this sad, crude remark.
Doug Tickner