{"id":1281,"date":"2019-03-27T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2019-03-27T04:05:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:05:05","slug":"how-samantha-bee-shows-nazi-hair-joke-backfired-in-the-best-way-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1281","title":{"rendered":"How Samantha Bee Show’s ‘Nazi Hair’ Joke Backfired In The Best Way Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samantha Bee is one of our strongest comedic voices, and her show Full Frontal<\/em>\u00a0often reminds viewers of the best days of The Daily Show<\/em>\u00a0with a powerful, feminist kick. But there\u2019s no denying one recent joke on the show went from political kick to foot in the mouth after one of Bee\u2019s correspondents accidentally mocked a young man with cancer.<\/p>\n

During a segment ridiculing CPAC, the annual conservative gathering near Washington, D.C., Full Frontal<\/em> correspondent Michael Rubens made a joke about how popular the \u201cNazi haircut\u201d had become with young Trump supporters, showing a montage of CPAC attendees with the cut. However, one of the young men singled out in the clip was Kyle Coddington. It turns out, Coddington doesn\u2019t have a \u201cNazi haircut; he has Stage IV\u00a0brain cancer. The shaved portion of his head was from chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The mistake was first brought to attention by Outset, a conservative publication where Coddington works. Coddington\u2019s sister also tweeted about the clueless joke, which quickly went viral:<\/p>\n

Opinions on the \u201chigh and tight\u201d haircut remain split, even a few years after its hipster heyday. Commonly derided as the \u201cHitler youth\u201d cut, the undercut buzz with a longer hair on top looks great on movie stars like Tom Hardy,\u00a0but has some obvious baggage after being embraced by actual modern Nazi sympathizers like Richard Spencer.<\/p>\n

Once they were made aware of the embarrassing mistake, the Samantha Bee show quickly apologized through its Twitter account, removed the Coddington joke\u00a0from the segment, and made a $1,000 donation to Coddington\u2019s GoFundMe page for his cancer treatment:<\/p>\n

However, Coddington said that while he was \u201cmoved\u201d by the donation, he didn\u2019t find the apology very sincere. After all, it references him being \u201coffended\u201d rather than simply owning the mistake outright.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe effects of the comments made on\u00a0Full Frontal<\/em>\u00a0go further than my battle with a serious illness,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cEveryone in that video was targeted unjustly and profiled without facts or proof of the accusations made.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s an upside to all of this that goes far beyond policing jokes or settling political scores. That\u2019s because all of the attention has resulted in a massive surge of donations to Coddington\u2019s GoFundMe page\u2014at $85,000 and counting\u2014far exceeding his initial goal of just $2,500.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am overwhelmed by the support,” Coddington said, \u201cand am grateful to everyone who has contributed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Samantha Bee is one of our strongest comedic voices, and her show Full Frontal\u00a0often reminds viewers of the best days of The Daily Show\u00a0with a powerful, feminist kick. But there\u2019s no denying one recent joke on the show went from political kick to foot in the mouth after one of Bee\u2019s correspondents accidentally mocked a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}