
Stephen Colbert: I am Howard Roark!
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The Forum for Ayn Rand Fans
reports that, during the hand off between the Jon Stewart show to the Stephen Colbert one on the Comedy Channel Monday night, Colbert did a schtick about Ayn Rand. The transition basically went as follows... As Stewart throws the show to Colbert, Colbert is seen reading from an open copy of the
Fountainhead.
Colbert: "Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself--"
Stewart: "Stephen, what are you doing?"
Colbert: "It's my fifth annual Stephen Colbert Objectivist Children's Sleepover. When ten lucky inner-city youths and I spend the night studying the radical individualistic philosophy of Ayn Rand. Jimmy, are you sharing a cookie? What did I tell you about sharing: It rewards the weak!"
Stewart: "Gotta be getting close to bedtime for them now, no?"
Colbert: "Oh, it is, Jon. Goodnight, my little shrugging atlases. (singing a lullabye) Go to sleep, go to sleep, it's in your rational self-interest..."
After the lullabye, Colbert looks into the camera and declares, "I am Howard Roark!" Stewart cracks up.
Wendy McElroy
- Friday 16 February 2007 - 08:22:39
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