Given that the response to this has been so humourless and pedantic, I think Oswald and I should keep it to ourselves. Moderators, feel free to close this thread again.
Love you, bye!
I’ll leave that up to Vaderesque. 
Not my thread… (mine never have this many responses :()
Stephen Colbert wouldn’t behave like this - he’d just acknowledge the joke bombed without blaming the audience.
Singular; the character Stephen Colbert plays on his show is a somewhat bombastic emotional sort who occasionally yells names in impotent anger. A running gag is that whenever he mentions Barry Manilow (who beat out Colbert for an Emmy), he shakes his fist and yells a mock-infuriated “Manilow!” Lately, he’s expanded the repertoire to include “Rickles!” (someone else who beat him at Emmy-time) and pretty much anyone else that’ll get a laugh from the audience.
What’s the opposite of ‘an apt comparison’?
An inept comparison?
An inept differentiation
I accept your apology. Let’s move on.
Let’s not, and say we did.
Are you really a Colbert fan?
Closed at the request of the OP.