Stephen Colbert is a practicing Christian. He is an ordained minister. He teaches Sunday school. He is a person of deep faith and, more generally, of deep spirituality. That fact doesn’t come up very often in his work—certainly not when he was playing an arrogant blowhard on The Colbert Report, and not a lot in his new role, playing himself, as the host of The Late Show. Late-night comedy and religion—indeed, late-night comedy and spirituality—have traditionally had very little to say to, and about, each other.
Religion came up last night, though.
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