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Stephen Colbert is sitting in his office, cutting up a take-out salad and telling me what a total jerk Stephen Colbert is. He's a hypocrite. A blowhard. Pompous, superficial and vain. He is "poorly informed but highly opinionated." Colbert is speaking about his on-air persona, the pundit and star of The Colbert Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname...
...person, Colbert is quite unlike his braying pundit. He's soft-spoken and reflective--tweedy, almost--and the father of three young kids. (His show persona, he says, wouldn't be a good dad. "The kids have to be more important than you.") Born in Charleston, S.C., he studied theater at Northwestern University and then did improv work with Chicago's Second City troupe--a pursuit, he says, not unrelated to his childhood addiction to role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. He also developed a news habit. As a young actor, he would stay up until 4 a.m. watching...
...He’s the George Bush of the local left,” says Glenn S. Koocher ’71, a veteran Cambridge political pundit. “He says whatever he needs to say to get his points across...
...seem to be absolutely miserable when they’re asking for money. If they enjoy it, I can’t trust them.”FRESH FACE, LONG ODDSBut Green’s image as a political outsider could also be a liability. Cambridge political pundit Robert Winters says Green’s chances of election are “slim-to none.” “The difficulty for Andre is not that he’s Republican,” says Winters, editor of the online Cambridge Civic Journal. “It?...
...Some say this places the onus of action on the candidates themselves. Longtime Cambridge pundit Glenn S. Koocher ’71 says students have little reason to become locally involved without prodding from candidates...