Stephen Colbert mocked Tucker Carlson for leading Fox News’ major league meltdown as M&M’s were dragged into America’s culture wars.
The Late Show host turned his attention on Tuesday to the announcement that M&M’s is dropping their “spokescandies” and hiring Maya Rudolph to take their place. The development follows a year of whining by Carlson, conservative commentators, and other Fox Newsers over minor changes the brand has made to their marketing and cartoon representatives.
Colbert recalled how Carlson spearheaded the M&M’s outrage when he complained about the Green M&M trading in her go-go boots for sneakers. He rolled footage of the Fox host fuming that “M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous until the moment you wouldn’t want to have a drink with any one of them.”
“Nothing weird about that,” Colbert snarked. “Who hasn’t thought about taking their candy out for drinks, and then, if things go right, maybe a little action, over the peanut, under the candy shell?”
Colbert then noted how Carlson railed against M&M’s more recently for debuting an “obese” Purple spokescandy that was roughly the same size as her companions.
“She’s not obese; she is with nut, Okay?” Colbert shot back. “Show some respect!”
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