Stephen Colbert buys ‘The Tucker Carlson Network’ website to troll right-wing host
NEW YORK — “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert has purchased a domain name very similar to the one of the newly launched “Tucker Carlson Network.”
Right-wing fabulist and former Fox News host Carlson introduced supporters to his new streaming service on Monday, promising exclusive interviews, investigative reports and “the unadorned truth.”
One day later, Colbert — who played a Carlson-esque character for nearly a decade on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” — announced on his late-night show that he’s now the proud new owner of the website and domain name “The Tucker Carlson Network.”
The CBS funnyman joked that Carlson left him an opening by leaving the most-used word in the English language out of his network’s title.
“It kind of feels incomplete. Doesn’t it feel like he should have called it ‘The Tucker Carlson Network?'” Colbert said. “And he really should have gotten the website TheTuckerCarlsonNetwork.com and he didn’t — but I did.”
Colbert said he’d use his new website to air his own “exclusive Tucker content.”
Colbert’s parody site currently features an animated Russian doll resembling Carlson — who famously parrots Kremlin talking points — as it dances above the phrase, “Tucker says, give generously!” Below are links to World Central Kitchen, Donors Choose and the Human Rights Campaign — humanitarian organizations Carlson isn’t likely to support.
Colbert’s future plans for TheTuckerCarlsonNetwork.com are unclear.
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