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Tragic news broke Monday evening when the family of Otto Warmbier, the American college student taken by North Korea and returned in a coma, put out a statement that their son passed had away earlier that afternoon. “Unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one we experienced today,” the statement said. When Otto was first detained by the Communist regime, multiple outlets mocked his arrest and impending doom.
At the time, Comedy Central’s now defunct program, The Nightly Show relentlessly ridiculed Warmbier as the audience laughed. “A story coming straight out of Pyongyang. Not to be confused with "Straight Outta Pyongyang,” the hit film about the rise and fall of NKWA, North Koreans with Attitude,” joked host Larry Wilmore at the start of the show. “Tonight’s story is about the North Korean government, which recently captured one of America's most annoying exports, a frat bro.”
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