Oh dear. In his never-ending quest to prove that he’s almost as funny as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert has tripped up again. The late-night American TV host was last night forced to issue a humiliating apology to the Princess of Wales after he produced a segment mocking her ‘disappearance’ and marriage – shortly before it emerged that she had cancer. Classy.
Colbert began his Late Show on 12 March with a two-minute-long monologue ‘spilling the tea’ on the Royal Family in which he made a series of not-especially-funny jokes about scurrilous rumours involving William and Kate. Unfortunately for Colbert, they aged so poorly that he was forced to make the following statement at the top of his show yesterday:
I don’t know if you have noticed, but we we do a lot of shows and, and, and I tell a lot of jokes and I tell jokes about a lot of different things, mostly what everybody’s talking about.
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