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1. Big Jon, Bully says

   September 16, 2012 at 4:02 pm
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2. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

   September 16, 2012 at 4:53 pm

   Excellent likenesses of Colbert and His Eminence.

   The cartooning style is familiar, and the priest standee on the right looks like one of the character designs for the pilot of that animated Love in the Ruins sitcom from a few years ago that none of the networks picked up. Must be Fr Kev Kevin.

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3. Quin Finnegan says

   September 16, 2012 at 7:57 pm

   Excellent. Sorry I didn’t fly back and attend myself. Best line (reported, anyway):

   “Consubstantial!” Mr. Colbert exclaimed, using a particularly cumbersome word that is now recited in the Nicene Creed. “It’s the creed! It’s not the SAT prep.”

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4. IC says

   September 17, 2012 at 7:10 am

   It’s not nice for my religious leaders to make me all envious like that.

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   • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

     September 17, 2012 at 6:21 pm

     If someone spreads envy … then they’re not your religious leader.

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5. job says

   September 19, 2012 at 11:46 am

   This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

   Correction: September 15, 2012

   An earlier version of this article misidentified the magazine whose editor sent out live Twitter posts from the event. It is Commonweal, not the Jesuit weekly America.

   No sweat! Easy mistake to make. I mean, for instance, I mistake the Olsen Twins All. The. Time.

   JOB

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   • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

     September 20, 2012 at 12:14 am

     TAGGED WITH: FATHER KEV KEVIN

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6. Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

   September 24, 2012 at 9:28 pm

   Follow-up at The Awl

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   • lickona says

     September 24, 2012 at 10:10 pm

     Yeah, saw that. You can do better. Want to tackle it for Lives of Famous Catholics? If anybody can drill down into Colbert’s layers upon layers…

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     • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

       September 24, 2012 at 11:20 pm

       … it’s Søren ‘I-didn’t-drop-character-till-the-posthumous-publication-of-Synspunktet-for-min-Forfatter-Virksomhed‘ Kierkegaard.

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       • lickona says

         September 24, 2012 at 11:25 pm

         It’s funny, Angelico, the way you pretend he isn’t you.

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         • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

           September 24, 2012 at 11:31 pm

           I suppose that’s a funny joke in the US.

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           • lickona says

             September 24, 2012 at 11:33 pm

             Well, it’s certainly funny in the WE, though I don’t know why we’re shouting.

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             • Angelico Nguyen, Esq., OP says

               September 25, 2012 at 8:34 am

               Q: What does Princess Aiko use to play video games?

               A: The Royal Wii.

               But seriously–

               There is a Colbert story worth telling, but I’m just not feeling it.

               The idea that keeps coming back to me is Arnold Schwarzenegger reminiscing on his relationship with Maria Shriver and the Kennedy clan, maybe in a series of flashbacks framed by what will turn out to be his last visit to Hyannis. I’m seeing a sort of less-good, American mashup of Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, and, well, The Loved One. Working title: Staying Hungry.

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