Salvatore Purpura

Goodbye Stephen Colbert. Hello Rick Parry.

No, Rick Parry is not taking over The Colbert Report. Didn't mean to scare you. Sorry.

Salvatore A. Purpura had been the Treasurer for the Colbert Super PAC. He quit (resigned) that job. Then, and who could have seen this coming (?), he took the job of Treasurer for Texas Governor and Presidential Hopeful Rick Parry. Stephen explained all about it and you can also read about it over at Politico.

(Warning, you might get sidetracked, like I did, and read a story that is not about Stephen Colbert. It sounded, well, weird.)

Stephen also had a short bit about Rick Santorum talking about marriage. Rick Santorum was comparing marriage to paper napkins and paper towels. He said you can call it what you want, but you can't define a paper towel as a paper napkin or vice versa. And Stephen was correct to note that Santorum would fully understand that you can't just up and redefine a word to mean something else. Who does that sort of thing?

The interview guest tonight was Jeff Bridges. I was going to say actor Jeff Bridges, but tonight he was singer Jeff Bridges. He sang quite nicely, looked very comfortable and at ease singing and playing the guitar. I'm often surprised when an actor sings or a singer acts, and yet I shouldn't be. With so many people trying to make a career in the entertainment industry, it just makes sense that the people who can sing AND act would be more likely to have a career in the performing arts.

And yes, you can go over to Colbert Nation and hear Jeff Bridges sing.