| | Colbert welcomes Fox token liberal Alan Colmes as 'new sidekick'
 Commentator Alan Colmes has left his slot as token liberal on the Fox show formerly known as Hannity & Colmes. Instead he is set to take up a new role as the liberal sidekick on Comedy Central's Colbert Report.
Or maybe not.
Stephen Colbert, who plays a Hannity-like figure on his own show, welcomed the mild-mannered Colmes on Monday to the temporarily renamed Colbert & Colmes, telling him, "I look forward to hearing your responses to my opinions -- which can be any of the phrases on this list."
"Right again, Stephen!" Colmes read out from the list. "Booyah! Brilliant insight, Stephen!"
Colbert then proceeded to ignore Colmes -- even running graphics over his face -- as he launched into a segment on the Democrats' reluctant to accept Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's designation of a replacement for Barack Obama's former Senate seat.
"Clearly Democrats are racists," Colbert suggested. "The only reason they supported Barack Obama for president was to get him out of their all-white Senate. Notice how they've given him his own separate but equal branch of government?"
Things went downhill at the end of the show, however, when Colmes started attempting to talk back, beginning with Colbert's comment that "we're also saying goodbye to President Bush, currently on his legacy tour -- and what a legacy it is!"
"Yes," Colmes put in, "and we'll be spending the next number of years cleaning up his 'legacy.'"
As Colmes continued to argue and poke holes in Colbert's analogies, Colbert became more and more frustrated, finally yelling, "I hate you! I'm firing your ass, Colmes!"
Colmes offered no protest but simply extracted payment for the full five weeks specified in his contract and gleefully hurried off the set. He then yelled "Booyah! Colmes away," turned into a bat, and flew off.
The Associated Press contacted Colmes and reports that he has "returned to his human self."
"It was very well done," Colmes eulogized about the short-lived Colbert and Colmes.
This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast Jan. 5, 2008.
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