Putin Agrees to Appear Shirtless on Colbert Report
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Stephen Colbertâs invitation to be a guest on The Colbert Report to talk about all the âexciting thingsâ heâs doing in Ukraine. And Putin has agreed to go shirtless. So has Colbert. âVladi is going to show me how to skin and eat a gopher raw,â Colbert told TMZ in announcing the upcoming studio interview. âAnd who wouldnât leap at the chance to go shirtless with the most powerful man on the planet? Democrats! Thatâs who.â Putin reportedly has been a fan of The Colbert Report since its debut in 2005 and told Reuters recently that he long ago adopted Colbertâs doctrine of âtruthinessâ for all his political and military strategies. âRussia has adopted truthiness,â Putin (61) said in the wide-ranging Reuters interview late last week. \nâI have been true to truthiness and put it to good use in Crimea and truthfully will have some truthy Ukrainian surprises for your president in the coming weeks. Thatâs the truth.â Colbert portrays a fictional, right-wing news anchorman on The Colbert Report and in the past has interviewed a wide range of guests including Pope Francis, Ted Cruz, Ted Nugent and President Obamaâs proctologist. His last Colbert Report will be in December of this year before he takes over from the retiring David Letterman as host of the Late Show. âVladi is going to talk about how all it took was a few little fibs to take over part of Ukraineâ¦but so much more,â said Colbert. âHeâs going to share stories about how to hunt humpback whales from a kayak, the best way to cook a Panda, how to de-gay a country, his top five ways to destabalize a government and blame Americansâ¦all kinds of great stuff.â âAnd donât tell Vladi but Iâm going to go commando for the interview. He apparantly wear Y fronts. Sissy man. Ha!â