Stephen Colbert declared his love for Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night’s “The Colbert Report” and said the conservative anchor had recently inspired him.
“I’m a huge fan of Fox News anchor Sean Hannity,” Colbert said. “Sean is such a good journalist he can break down the news into simple terms that even he can understand. And recently, my main mannity Hannity introduced a new segment on his show called ‘Question of the Day’ where he answers the most pressing questions of our time.”
Colbert then played a clip from Hannity’s show on Tuesday night.
“Tonight’s question is something I’m really excited about,” Hannity said. “‘What is your favorite way to work out?’ Now President Obama, he delicately jogs on his elliptical and struggles to lift a couple of 2-pound weights. Well, I’ve been engaging in a real exercise.”
Colbert couldn’t contain his amusement.
“Yeah, President Obama delicately jogs while Hannity forcefully rams President Obama into this segment for no reason,” Colbert said.
“Seeing Sean take time out from covering Ebola and ISIS to let us know his bod is rock hard has inspired me to introduce my own segment where I ask myself flattering questions about myself,” he added. “It’s time for ‘Stephen Colbert’s Everything I Wanted You To Want To Know About Me But I Was Afraid You Wouldn’t Ask.'”
Colbert then answered one of the questions he’d submitted himself, which read: “I’ve noticed you’re in much better shape than Sean Hannity. How do you work out?”
After revealing his outlandishly grueling workout routine, Colbert admitted there was one area of physical fitness in which he could never beat Hannity: flexibility.
“Because listening to him answer questions about himself on his own show, I know I can never match his ability to get his head up his own ass,” Colbert explained. “I mean literally. Literally. I look forward to more of Sean’s answers to burning questions like ‘How is this news?’ and ‘What else is on TV?'”
Watch the video below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
OK, I’m a little ashamed of myself. I mean, back in like 1611, crowds would gather in merrie olde England to watch some guy who maybe actually deserved it have his guts pulled out and his skin pulled off and then be hanged a little for a while and then roasted in a fire and then be chopped into four pieces and stuck on iron poles while an appreciative crowd looked on, laughing and cheering. So me, I’m sitting here with a cup of coffee, laughing out loud while Colbert does that, basically, to Hannity. Who deserves it, God knows he deserves it, but Jesus, Colbert is just so gleefully vicious and it must be wrong, on some level, to enjoy it as much as I do. Maybe in some more enlightened age we’ll take pity on the Hannitys of the world and give them the therapy they so obviously need for elephantiasis of the ego or whatever the hell is wrong with them.
Stephen …I bow to the master of sarcasm.
((bows LOW and sweeps cap))
Being gleefully sarcastic about epic stupidity as in this case isn’t wrong in my opinion. If one is gonna take the time to be an epic idiot like Hannity then they should expect to have it pointed out to them. And I’m sure Ol’ Sean will take it personally.
Colbert is simply poking holes in Hannity’s cult-of-sh^tty-personality.
If from this-- just one Fux Newsbot sees Hannity for the blowhardjagoff he is?
It’s definitely justified.
If not? I’m still chuckling.
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I have no idea what the viewing overlap might be, but I know one thing, like darrtown says, Sean will be ticked. As hilarious as the joke parts were, the real stab to the jugular was where he showed the sequence of vapid questions from the segment, your favorite this, your favorite that. It set aside the titanic self-regard and showed him for what he really is—a no-talent, no-taste, no-nothing-to-offer mediocrity. I’ll bet that for an instant while seeing that, Hannity just may have a momentary, swiftly repressed realization that he really does suck. At least I hope so! I’d hate to think he walks around without being gnawed by doubt from the inside.