Stephen Colbert Has America by the Ballots - New York Mag

[Bozita]

a delight for Colbert fans

http://newyorkmetro.com/news/politics/22322/

Stephen Colbert Has America by the Ballots

The former Jon Stewart protégé created an entire comic persona out of right-wing doublespeak, trampling the boundary between parody and politics. Which makes him the perfect spokesman for a political season in which everything is imploding.

By Adam Sternbergh


Stephen Colbert is running at full stride. As he enters the studio, the audience is already cheering. He is dressed, as he seems always to be dressed, in a sharp suit and conservative tie, with rectangular rimless glasses and perfectly parted hair, so that when he does his short victory lap on the floor of the studio, he looks like a gleeful bank manager who’s just won the lottery or possibly lost his mind.

He thrusts his arms out in mock triumph. The audience roars. He offers a couple of V-for-victory gestures that are part Richard Nixon and part chest-thumping, peace-out-homey sign. Then he motions for everyone to quiet down and asks, “Do you have any questions? Anything you want to know about me before I go into character and start saying these terrible things?”

A hand in the front row shoots up before he finishes. The woman looks so excited to be here that you suspect she’s wearing homemade Colbert pajamas under her clothes. She stands and addresses Colbert. “So how did it feel to give the president the verbal finger at the White House press-corps dinner?”

The audience roars again.

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[flying_wahini]

1. i just love him!

I stay up past my bedtime to watch him....
hope that he turns up the heat before the election and
gets the usual non-voters to put out!

and it doesn't hurt that he is pretty cute. i know, I know,,,,,,,

[Bozita]

2. kick

[Tinksrival]

4. A DUer from N.Y. got his pick out on the sidewalk........

I liked it so much I saved it! It cheers me up!

[ariellyn]

8. Yum...Eye Candy

:loveya:

[StellaBlue]

3. K&R

Thanks for this!

Great article - would never have seen it otherwise.

[etherealtruth]

5. Thank you Bozita ...

Had you not posted this I would have missed it ... it was an enjoyable read.

:loveya: Stephen Colbert:loveya:

[Swamp Rat]

6. Great American satirist!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. great find!

and great article for Cobert. :)

:hi:

[Vidar]

9. Good article. Thanks for posting.

[Ms. Clio]

10. Thanks so much for posting!

"Anything you want to know about me before I go into character and start saying these terrible things?”

He's the apotheosis of cool.

[Laurab]

11. K & R just because it's Stephen

and I have to automatically k&r anything with Stephen Colbert in it! I read the article last week, and should have thought to post it. Thanks - I just love that man.

[byronius]

12. He's invented a Completely New Thing.

I don't think I could possibly do what he does.

I worship this man for what he did at the WH Press Corp dinner.