Incandescent lightbulbs will soon burn out for good and be replaced by compact fluorescents, the result of a bill Democrats passed in 2007 that requires lightbulbs to be more energy efficient. And while fluorescents have been maligned for their harsh glow and slow warmup time, Stephen Colbert hates them for an entirely different reason: their femininity.
It’s the shape of the fluorescent bulbs – which some have described as squiggly pigtails — that has Colbert so upset.
“You know who has pigtails? Girls,” Colbert said. “I want a boy lightbulb, one that’s shaped like a giant glowing testicle.”
The fluorescents would also decimate the American joke industry, Colbert said, by ruining one of the oldest jokes in the book.
“How many blondes does it take to screw in a lightbulb?”Colbert asked. “I don’t know. It’s only been seven years, we don’t have to change it yet.”
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