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Answer honestly... Disabuse me of my ignorance. Don't let me get away with anything. Don't try to play my game. Be real. Be passionate. Hold your ideas. Give me resistance. Give me traction I can work against. The friction between reality, or the truly held concerns of the person, and the farcical concerns that I have, or my need to seem important, as opposed to actually understanding what's true... Where those two things meet is where the comedy happens. So be real. That's the best thing you can do. And call me on my bullshit.

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Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American.

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We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

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Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture.

Stephen Colbert

I believe it's yogurt, but I refuse to believe it's not butter.

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert

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Born: May 13, 1964 (age 61)

Bio: Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, media critic, and television host. He currently hosts the late-night television talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS.

Known for:

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Since 2015)
The Colbert Report (2005 – 2014)
The Daily Show (Since 1996)
The Dana Carvey Show (1996)
Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)

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