What’s the protocol for making jokes about dead dictators — is the same day too soon? Stephen Colbert throws propriety to the wind and takes on not just Col. Moammar Gadhafi himself in this clip from Thursday’s “Colbert Report,” claiming that losing the Libyan leader is like losing “Yves St. Laurent, George Burns and Pol Pot all on the same day,” but also riffs on the predictably goofy media coverage of same. –KA

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