The Bay Area Reporter Online is reporting that Representative Jared Polis (D- Colorado) may soon be featured in a Better Know A District segment of ‘The Colbert Report’. The freshman congressman is the first openly gay non-incumbent elected to Congress.
Those wishing to see Polis may have the chance to catch his comedic side on an upcoming episode of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. The show’s host, Stephen Colbert, has a recurring segment called “Better Know a District,” where he skewers Congress people with nonsensical questions.
In 2005, Colbert’s second segment in the 435-part series featured a memorable interview with openly gay Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts), who was asked if his weight bothered his wife. Frank looked visibly perturbed throughout the mock interview.
Asked if he was willing to undergo the same treatment, Polis told the Bay Area Reporter last week that his sit down with Colbert would be “coming to you soon.”
Is this enough reason to post that memorable second installment of BKAD featuring an openly left-handed Congressman? I think so!
October 27, 2005: Better Know a District – Massachusetts’ 4th – Barney Frank
Stephen sits down with Congressman Barney Frank to discus life as part of a highly discriminated minority group: lefties.
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This is also the second time that Colorado’s 2nd District will be “better known.” Stephen interviewed Rep Mark Udall (now Senator) way back in the early days of the show on November 16, 2005. I wonder what else they will find to say about the district this time.
(Ok, I had to resubmit this because I could totally not read the second word on recaptcha the first go round. I can’t wait to see what sort of verificatio process they have in place when I’m 75 that will keep me from using the internet…)
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I’m not that close to 75, but close enough that I have trouble too, sometimes – look next to the yellow box where you type the words and you see a little column of symbols: click on the top one (that looks like a recycling sign) to generate a new pair of words if you can’t read the one’s up there.
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And Bay Area Reporter has it a little wrong. As we all know it’s a 434-part series, since Stephen got rid of the CA district w/ Duke Cunningham. :-)
I never really knew how many Congressfolk there were until TCR. And I’m old enough to know better! I’ve surprised people when they say they don’t know how many districts are represented in Congress, and I can just rattle that number off. Fun! They’re always surprised.
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I almost put a [sic] next to the 435 because of that. But Stephen does say 435 in the clip, so I couldn’t blame them.
I know it’s supposed to be a joke, but the BKAD has really mad a difference to my knowledge of the House – before BKAD I knew there were 400 or so Reps and could probably name 4 or 5 of them. Now I feel so proud when I see any of them in a news clip or something.
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So this doesn’t include Stephen dancing down the hall behind Rep. Frank? Is that clip from another show? Thanks
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That was shown in a later show, when Stephen responded to Rep. Frank calling TCR a waste of TV space.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/181218/november-17-2005/no-good-deed
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