Stephen Colbert pokes fun at Congressman Pokie, er, Pocan
Washington, DC,
June 4, 2013
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The Capital Times
By Jessica Vanegeren Yet while Pocan often lacked quick, witty answers in response to Colbert’s questions, that’s not to say the exchange wasn’t funny. Colbert initially misprounced Pocan’s name (poke-in), then asked if he could call Pocan "Pokie." He then asked him to blow out 100 candles on a cupcake to commemorate his first 100 days in office and cracked a joke about Pocan’s husband, Phil Frank, looking a tad younger than the 48-year-old congressman. “How nice your young nephew could be there with you,” Colbert said while holding a picture from the day Pocan was sworn into office. The six-minute interview touched on cheese curds, bear wrestling (it used to be legal until Pocan helped ban it in the 1990s) and same-sex marriage. “I assume you support the federal recognition of gay marriage … until your husband forgets to take out the garbage,” Colbert said. “Am I right?” He described Madison as “famously one of the most liberal cities in America,” trailing only San Francisco, Austin, and "Meat-is-Murder, Ore." The 2nd District is also where the Ringling Brothers created the “Greatest Show on Earth” … "according to people who have never left Wisconsin," Colbert told the audience. The district also includes a portion of the Wisconsin Dells, home to Noah’s Ark, officially the largest water park in America and “unofficially America’s largest open-air Porta-Potty.” As for Madison’s well-established Dane County Farmers' Market? Well, that was just another opportunity for Colbert to make another gay joke, this time at the expense of cheese. “Cheese curds — no offense — is the gayest cheese,” Colbert said. “They squeak when you bite them, just like gay people do.”
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