Happy Hour Vid: Stephen Colbert Defends Eric Massa

Jake Simpson Mar 11, 2010
Eric Massa's bizarre departure from Congress and even more bizarre interview with Glenn Beck had already been satirized by some of the best. But that didn't stop Stephen Colbert, who put his own unique spin on Massa's sordid saga in one segment of comedy gold. In barely four minutes, Colbert "connects the dots" on Massa's sexuality, waxed eloquent on the "separation of showers," and demonstrated the difference between sexual and non-sexual groping on one of his interns.

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