CBS’s Stephen Colbert had an actually funny joke on Monday. There were only two problems. One was that he told it not on The Late Show, but during an interview with GQ’s Zach Baron as the magazine put him on the cover of its “men of the year” issue. A second problem was that it was completely unintentional, as he told Baron that “I think I'm more conservative than people think.”
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Later in the interview, Colbert was discussing his relationship with The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and invoked his favorite books, “You know, there's a great moment in The Lord of the Rings when Gandalf says, 'Our—one of our great hopes here is that it has not entered into Sauron's darkest dreams that we would ever want to destroy The Ring.' And so I always felt that Jon was Frodo and I was Sam. And all I wanted to do was help him, like, we wanted to throw The Ring in the fire. Now what is the ring? I guess it's power for the sake of power, as opposed to power for the sake of service, you know.”
Speaking of Stewart, Comedy Central renewed his contract for another year on Monday, which is odd because liberals spent the last several months citing Colbert’s cancellation as proof that Paramount was bending the knee to the authoritarian Trump and that Stewart was next.
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