Brad Paisley and LL Cool J made news recently for the release of a poorly-received new single entitled "Accidental Racist." In the song, Paisley suggests that people from the South are caught between "pride and blame," and that he is just trying to show his support for Lynyrd Skynyrd with his confederate flag t-shirts.
The song received a good deal of backlash for being insensitive and inappropriate.
And, of course, where there's opportunity for satire, there's Stephen Colbert. On Wednesday night's The Colbert Report, the comedian parodied the tune, and put his own spin on it. Instead of tackling racism, his song focused on homosexuality in a song entitled "Oopsie-Daisy Homophobe."
Alan Cumming guest stars in the song as the LL Cool J to Colbert's Paisley, and the duo will surely inspire just as much laughter as the original song raised eyebrows.
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