On Monday's editiion of the American late-night talk show, Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee lit into the UK for voting to leave the European Union — or at least the parts that did vote to leave.
"What were you thinking England and Wales?" she asked. "Screwing over the rest of the world by voting stupidly? That's our job."
She commented that anti-immigration fervor seemed to be the deciding factor for the Leave campaign, and saved some special scorn for UKip leader, Nigel Farage.
Host Samntha Bee
She also noted that Donald Trump immediately waded into the Brexit melee soon after landing in Scotland, congratulating it on taking its country back.
"Oh boy, you just confused England and Scotland — they love that," Bee said.
"Trump immediately got dragged by British Twitter — it's like Black Twitter, except 87 percent not," she added. "Gee, I wish I had a real Scotsman to read their tweets to you."
David Tennant, the previous regeneration of Doctor Who, stepped up, and his recitation of some choice 140-character invectives was like the Jimmy Kimmel "mean tweets" segment, without the sad music.
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