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TexasTowelie

(112,128 posts)
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 01:54 AM Jun 2017

Is Stephen Colbert Planning a Run for Office in 2020?

Stephen Colbert is still in Russia “on assignment” for The Late Show, but he’s already making headlines from overseas. The host appeared on the Russian talk show Evening with Urgant on Friday night and may have made his first bid for President of the United States.

In this segment posted on Evening with Urgant’s official website, Colbert and Evening host Ivan Urgant sit down to play a game of Russian roulette with vodka shots rather than a gun with a nearly empty bullet chamber.

With his first shot, Colbert toasts to the Russian people and quips that he doesn’t understand why no members of the Trump administration can remember meeting them, zing! The comedian may raise a few eyebrows with his second toast though.

Once Colbert confirmed that the show was only airing in Russia (and maybe at the White House), he declared, “OK. I am here to announce that I am considering a run for president in 2020, and I thought it would be better to cut out the middle man and just tell the Russians myself.”

Read more: http://www.cantonrep.com/entertainment/20170624/is-stephen-colbert-planning-run-for-office-in-2020

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Is Stephen Colbert Planning a Run for Office in 2020? (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2017 OP
That would be really funny if he ran a fake satirical campaign in 2020, applegrove Jun 2017 #1
He would probably win, satirical or not! angstlessk Jun 2017 #3
If he does, he'll be playing a character Rhiannon12866 Jun 2017 #2
Frankly, he'd make an awesome president. byronius Jun 2017 #4
It would be his second his, btw Tiggeroshii Jun 2017 #5
After Trump tweeted earlier this week that he had no tapes of his meeting with James Comey, red dog 1 Jun 2017 #6

applegrove

(118,622 posts)
1. That would be really funny if he ran a fake satirical campaign in 2020,
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 01:59 AM
Jun 2017

highlighting the nonsense and lies of Trump.

Rhiannon12866

(205,237 posts)
2. If he does, he'll be playing a character
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 02:05 AM
Jun 2017

I usually watch and there are times it's obvious he misses the character from his previous show.

byronius

(7,394 posts)
4. Frankly, he'd make an awesome president.
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 04:12 AM
Jun 2017

Not every entertainer could pull it off, but he could. That's a major intellect, there. Serious thinker, deeply moral, public service bent. I suspect he'd be amazingly competent.

red dog 1

(27,792 posts)
6. After Trump tweeted earlier this week that he had no tapes of his meeting with James Comey,
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 06:28 PM
Jun 2017

Colbert responded by posting a photo of himself in Russia & tweeting:
@realDonaldTrump - Don't worry Mr President..I'm in Russia..If the "tapes" exist, I'll bring you back a copy.
(From 6/24 WaPo article "Stephen Colbert went to Russia to 'announce' his 2020 run for president"

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