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(FILES)Comedian Stephen Colbert arrives at the White House in Washington, DC in this February 11, 2014 file photo. US comedian Stephen Colbert has offered a full-throated, if tongue-in-cheek, defense of satire after outrage on social media over his offensive language on Asian Americans. Colbert, who plays a tempestuous conservative commentator on his popular "Colbert Report" late night show, repeatedly stressed on March 31, 2014 that his over-the-top jibes were meant as parody. "Very important -- he is a character. He is not me," Colbert said to laughter as he pointed to footage of himself. The comedian, a favorite of young liberals who was invited by President Barack Obama to sit at a head table at a state dinner in February, last week came under fire as he attacked the owner of the Washington Redskins who refuses to change the American football team's name, which is considered derogatory by many Native Americans. Mocking the team owner's announcement that he was establishing a fund to support Native Americans, Colbert said: "I am willing to show the Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever." AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
(FILES)Comedian Stephen Colbert arrives at the White House in Washington, DC in this February 11, 2014 file photo. US comedian Stephen Colbert has offered a full-throated, if tongue-in-cheek, defense of satire after outrage on social media over his offensive language on Asian Americans. Colbert, who plays a tempestuous conservative commentator on his popular “Colbert Report” late night show, repeatedly stressed on March 31, 2014 that his over-the-top jibes were meant as parody. “Very important — he is a character. He is not me,” Colbert said to laughter as he pointed to footage of himself. The comedian, a favorite of young liberals who was invited by President Barack Obama to sit at a head table at a state dinner in February, last week came under fire as he attacked the owner of the Washington Redskins who refuses to change the American football team’s name, which is considered derogatory by many Native Americans. Mocking the team owner’s announcement that he was establishing a fund to support Native Americans, Colbert said: “I am willing to show the Asian community I care by introducing the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.” AFP PHOTO/Nicholas KAMMNICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
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From Stephen Colbert to Olivia Munn, who/what  The Daily Show has wrought. From Big Boy to the Tropical Delite Girl, old-school advertising mascots. Playing around with the planets in the solar system, just because. And do you veer, plod, run? Types of pedestrians and jaywalkers.

 

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