Stephen Colbert: 'It's my sister and I'm willing to help her'

[babylonsister]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/18/stephen-colbert-its-my-sister-and-im-willing-to-help-her/

Stephen Colbert: 'It's my sister and I'm willing to help her'
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(CNN) – What does it take for Stephen Colbert to step out of character? A sibling running for office.

Speaking to CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper, Colbert said the South Carolina primary where his sister is a candidate is the first race he's dived into.

"She's my sister, and I'm willing to, you know, break the jewel of my own creation to try to do something for her," Colbert said on CNN's "The Lead." "I'm not worried what it would do to me or my show to try to help her as myself, not as my character, and to help her as myself."

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Stephen Colbert has campaigned for his sister in the Palmetto State, including holding a fundraiser in a bowling alley.

On his Comedy Central show, Colbert assumes the stance of a right-wing pundit, and rarely drops the façade during interviews or public appearances.

"If people think that's not the right thing for me to do, I don't care," Colbert said. "It's my sister and I'm willing to help her."

[Laelth]

1. k&r for Stephen Colbert. n/t

-Laelth

[JoePhilly]

2. The people who get his humor won't mind at all.

We know he's playing a character.

But it will be fun to watch as some of the dumber members of the right wing start to flip out.

[NYC Liberal]

6. The right gets harder and harder to parody every day.

Parody is about exaggeration and over-the-top imitation. These days it's almost impossible to think of something nutty enough that some right winger hasn't already said with all seriousness.

[colorado_ufo]

3. Quite a family, that Colbert bunch!

[liberal_at_heart]

4. It just endears him to us all the more

[malthaussen]

5. Colbert should have Colbert on the show

... and give her the treatment. Then he could help her in character and out of character.

-- Mal

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. She should also do an interbiew with Esteban Colberto:

[tanyev]

13. If she wins, he's already threatened to read excerpts from her 5th grade diary

unless she comes on to do his Better Know A District segment.

[ZRT2209]

8. HOLIER THAN THOU Erick Erickson has endorsed ADULTERER Mark Sanford

they hypocrisy - it burns!

[Quantess]

9. I wonder what his sister is like?

She must have at least decent sense of humor. I am interested in seeing her interviewed someday.

[xxqqqzme]

10. I'm fairly certain

either Ed Schultz or Lawrence O'Donnell has had her on their shows.

[Electric Monk]

11. I found an interesting website about their dad, James W Colbert Jr. and he seems pretty awesome, too

http://waring.library.musc.edu/exhibits/colbert/index.php


John F. Kennedy and James W. Colbert, Jr., M.D. 1960.

[progressoid]

12. That's a great bio.

Look at little Steven Clobert!!

[Cha]

14. Of course, it's the right thing to do.. he doesn't

have to stay in character all the freaking time. He didn't at that WHPC dinner when bush was there, did he?

[Raffi Ella]

15. It'll be great to hear him as himself.

I think it'll only strengthen that character he plays.