Stephen Colbert Assails Sean Hannity's ''Bullet-Headed Incuriosity''

On Terri Gross’ ”Fresh Air,” this afternoon, Stephen Colbert confessed that in creating his ironic simulacrum of a conservative pundit, he looked to Anderson Cooper (”for his slickness”) and to Sean Hannity (”for his bullet-headed incuriosity”), but ultimately settled on Bill O’Reilly

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— On WABC Radio’s Rush Limbaugh and his oxycontin problem: ”Do you know how much drugs you have to take to go deaf?”

— On losing the Emmy two years in a row to American songbook stylists Barry Manilow and Tony Bennett: ”My real enemy is the Great American Songbook.

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