Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Bemoan The Crumbling Of ‘Duck Dynasty’: Video

“As a student of history one of the things we’ve learned is that the mightiest dynasties eventually crumble,” Jon Stewart said last night on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, launching into a report on the “trouble for the preeminent dynasty of our age” after A&E Network put Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson on hiatus for incendiary remarks in a GQ interview. “I think what the guy said is ignorant but I also have an inclination to support a world where saying ignorant shit on television doesn’t get you kicked off that medium,” Stewart said of Robertson (watch the segment below). “I guess I stand with the free speech absolutists of Fox News who don’t believe we should pressure people to have to adhere to cultural norms of speech.”

Related: ‘Duck Dynasty’ Clan: “We Cannot Imagine The Show Going Forward Without Our Patriarch”

“This is a terrible day for Americans although admittedly a great day for ducks,” Stephen Colbert chimed in on his show, reading some of the quotes from the interview and adding, I’ll admit it’s not he eloquent speech you’d expect from a backwoods Louisiana duck murderer.” He added: “He’s taught us so much, like like this little bit of eternal wisdom: ‘If you catch squirrels for your woman, your woman will never cut you off in bed’.” The real party to pity, Colbert said,  is A&E. “With this controversy, they may have just lost Duck Dynasty’s massive black and gay audience.”

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