Cheesy Cable News Feud? Anderson Cooper Puts Stephen Colbert On His ‘Ridicu-list’

Last month Stephen Colbert called out Anderson Cooper for putting Sean Hannity on his ‘Ridicu-list.’ Cooper criticized the Fox News host for what he deemed to be selective editing on Hannity’s special about liberal bias in the news. But Colbert claimed that AC360 was borrowing his own bit, which resulted in Cooper getting added to Colbert’s Absurd-U-Chart. With me so far? Good, because Tuesday night Cooper hit back at Colbert, in a surprisingly successful comedy bit for a CNN host.

News anchors are far more accustomed to delivering serious information with furrowed brow and gravitas, and so when they try their hand at comedy, it usually gets ugly fast. (There are exceptions to every rule of course, like NBC’s Brian Williams…have you heard how funny he is?!) But credit where its due: Anderson Cooper has good comedic timing and the smarts to not understand the jokes he’s delivering, but also the wisdom to hire decent joke writers.

One can only imagine that Colbert will take the bait, and fire back his own missive at Cooper on his own show. After all, the only thing better than a “cheesy cable news war” (as Cooper put it) is a pastiche of a “cheesy cable news war.”

Watch the bit below, courtesy of CNN:

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