Identity Swapping: Colbert's Vanity Fair Interview

The latest issue of Vanity Fair (the one where Nicole Kidman exposes her bra in a cross between a sailor suit and milkman uniform) has a five page article on the Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report, free for the reading/printing. Behold, "The Man in the Irony Mask."

Admittedly, most of the material is a refresher course for the die-hard Colbert fan, but sprinkled throughout are gems like these:

On the press: "[A] lamprey that latches onto a subject and just sucks and sucks and sucks until your brain and your soul is as dry as a crouton . . . I like preserving the mask . . . stepping out from behind it doesn't do me any good."

On his "unmasking" routine: "The network would happily—they don't want me tired; they don't want me running off the road—they'd happily send me home in a car. But I'd work the entire way home, and I need more than the 30 seconds from the car to the front door to become a dad and a husband again. So I drive home and I crank my tunes. And by the time I get there, I'm normal again."

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