Colbert Gaytion: Colbert and Sen. Craig
(Getty Image) Does Stephen Colbert have a better chance of getting caught in a public restroom sex bust than a gay sex advice columnist? To hear Dan Savage tell it on the latest installment of Colbert Report's "Gay Roundup", you might think so.
Friend ("just a friend") of the Show Savage stopped by to discuss new hate crime legislation. While treading somewhat tremulous ground for comedy, the conversation quickly toward Sen. Larry Craig, who is turning out to be comic gold for Colbert.
Colbert pointed out that Craig voted against the legislature, despite his arrest for "being gay" and coming out of the closet by using "a well-known gay code": that is, Craig announcing at his press conference, "I am not gay". But Savage was quick to point out that Craig is not gay-identified; he still belongs to Colbert's team, publicly at least. (So essentially neither team wants him...who would?)
Anyways, Savage gets the biggest laugh when asked, if so many hetero-identified men are gay, why aren't gays out marching in the streets to support "straight" mens' rights? Without missing a beat, Savage observes, "there are some gay people who are happy to assist hetero-sexually identified men in all sorts of ways".
Where else on TV these days are you going to get such a frank discussion about sexuality? Colbert sets his guests up to hit it out of the park; sometimes they don't, but Savage did, and the result was not only totally entertaining but actually meaningful TV. They talk for six minutes; when's the last time someone as brutally honest about gay sexuality as Dan Savage got six minutes on TV?
The two go on to quickly discuss gays in Iran (and arming them to form a "Gay Muhja-queen") before Colbert "nails" Savage, in a "straight way", of course.
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