Comedy Central’s The Daily Show did not make any new friends today. After the Supreme Court overturned a law requiring strict regulation of Texas abortion clinics the show’s Twitter account celebrated the decision with this message:

Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas!

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2016

The tweet was ostensibly a joke but the response suggests it didn’t land with people left, right or center. People on the right were repulsed by the suggestion that abortion is something to celebrate and by the idea that abortion should be thought of as another means of birth control no different from any other. People on the left were upset because the tweet assumed a male perspective and failed to include the consent of the woman being knocked up, i.e. it sounded “rape-flavored.” Pretty much everyone agreed that whatever the joke was intended to be it just wasn’t funny at all.

https://twitter.com/NoahCRothman/status/747515296735502337

.@TheDailyShow This tweet is so vile.

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) June 27, 2016

yeah I'm pro choice and that's too much.

— sen. timmy tubbernuts (@NatsinDelaware) June 27, 2016

Getting pregnant so you can abort so you can piss off right-wingers is an interesting place for one's mind to go. https://t.co/QNfDSsZktU

— Will Truman (@trumwill) June 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/zacharybright/status/747509677190062080

I'm pro-choice, but stop trivializing abortion like it's getting your nails done

— Josh Fields (@partiallypro) June 27, 2016

Evil. https://t.co/MXVGOra6MS

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/DebbieTenzer/status/747517306239016962

I'm vehemently pro-choice, and you are loathsome. This tweet isn't 100% pro-rape, but it is rape-flavored. Screencapping.

— Doctor Science Is Social Distancing (@doctorscience) June 27, 2016

so not funny. Very glad Scotus ruled as they did, but this tweet is irresponsible

— Julia London (@JuliaFLondon) June 27, 2016

Just wow. Abortion is not a laughing matter. BTW I'm pro choice.

— MizTori (@bosoxgaltori) June 27, 2016

What a stupid thing to say. This is why nobody cares about your show anymore.

— Erin Nicole (@TakeSumE) June 27, 2016

Welp, way to ensure that I will never again watch the Daily Show.

— Jenny Carlson (@jcanthro) June 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/jfgroves/status/747520253752664064

About an hour and a half later the Daily Show begged people to give them a break because, hey, they were trying to celebrate the ruling. BTW, this tweet is pretty much a summation of the kind of clapper humor made popular by the Daily Show, i.e. we may not be funny but, friends, remember we’re on the same side:

Friends, we’re certainly not promoting abortions. Just excited about #SCOTUS reaffirming right to choose.

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) June 27, 2016

But the original tweet is still up there and some are not ready to let it go:

From someone who was a guest on your show (and treated fairly): This was in exceptionally poor taste.

— Nick Vlahos (@VlahosNick) June 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/747542007816552449

Then do some high-fives in the office. Incomprehensibly stupid tweet.

— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) June 27, 2016

um, you are DEFINITELY promoting abortions. Just FYI.

— Allie, child of God because of Christ ✨ (@allie_neri) June 27, 2016

https://twitter.com/Mark_Meed/status/747534070503006208

That's the plain meaning of your original tweet. Own it.

— Tom Meyer (@tomdmeyer) June 27, 2016

And on and on it goes. There are hundreds of responses and few if any seem to be supportive of the Daily Show. They have managed to unite the nation…in disgust.