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.”
During a discussion on the political aspects of his show, Colbert claimed, “I share that— those feelings with the audience, and they laugh or they don't laugh, and that there's a sense of community there, and you know the demographics of these shows are interesting too. It's about a third, a third, a third. It's about a third Republicans, a third Democrats, a third independents. You'd think, you know, old, you know, people perceive me as this sort of lefty figure. I think I'm more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis.”
Fact-check: 38 percent of Democrats confess to watching late night “very or somewhat often.” By contrast, 21 percent of Republicans and 22 percent of independents claim likewise.
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