WASHINGTON - At 9:37 a.m. Friday, a man in a navy suit bounded into a packed committee room in the Rayburn House Office Building wearing the wide grin of a politician. Surrounded by a scrum of clicking photographers, he marched over to the witness table, plunked himself down on a leather chair and smoothed back his hair.
Stephen Colbert was ready to testify.
"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN 1," he said. (The proceedings were on C-SPAN 3.)
Colbert's role as a witness on migrant farm labor before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law marked a new permutation of the brand of humor that he and Jon Stewart have honed.
No longer content with just parodying politicians, they are increasingly extending the joke into the very halls of government that they mock.
The two Comedy Central hosts will step further into the political arena on Oct. 30, when they hold rival rallies on the National Mall.
Comedian Colbert testifies on migrant farm labor
Stephen Colbert was ready to testify.
"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN 1," he said. (The proceedings were on C-SPAN 3.)
Colbert's role as a witness on migrant farm labor before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law marked a new permutation of the brand of humor that he and Jon Stewart have honed.
No longer content with just parodying politicians, they are increasingly extending the joke into the very halls of government that they mock.
The two Comedy Central hosts will step further into the political arena on Oct. 30, when they hold rival rallies on the National Mall.
Comedian Colbert testifies on migrant farm labor