Portfolio‘s Jeff Bercovici learned a few things about Stephen Colbert during a Q&A session at the 92nd St. Y last night. (Have we mentioned Colbert won a prized mediabistro.com Golden Boa, but failed to show up at the party to accept it? We’re sure it hangs proudly in his office.)
Anyway, here’s one of the things Bercovici learned:
Colbert does a great Bill O’Reilly impression. “Recounting the time he met the Fox News host at last year’s Time 100 party, he re-created both O’Reilly’s words and his voice: ‘Can I give you some advice? Watch who you book as guests. You can have Olbermann on, and you can have Franken on, but people see a pattern.’ His theory on why O’Reilly agreed to be a guest on The Colbert Report: ‘I think he might be flattered by the doppelganger. He’s got some sense of humor about himself.'”
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