Comedian Stephen Colbert understands President Obama’s appointment of ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ producer and major Obama donor Colleen Bell as the ambassador to Hungary. Though the appointment has given Obama a lot of grief, Colbert said he gets it.
“That’s just quid pro quo. You scratch the president’s back, he appoints you ambassador of Scratchbackistan,” Colbert joked.
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He played clip from his “friend” John McCain at the Senate’s confirmation hearing, denouncing the choice because of her background as a soap opera producer.
“Who do you want John? Do you want someone from ‘The Young and the Restless?’ They would be too inexperienced then get bored and quit,” he said.
In fact, Colbert argues that it is Bell’s soap opera job that has uniquely qualified her for this position.
“The ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ is perfect training to be an ambassador. Hungary is a country rife with drama and the constant threat of violence, exactly the situation the Forrester family routinely handles from their palacious estate while simultaneously running their fashion empire,” Colbert declared.
“I am confident. If Colleen Bell was able to handle the on-again, off-again marriage between Sal and his daughter Macy Alexander and Thorne Forrester, who she eventually lost to Brooke only to reunite with him before falling in love with recovering alcoholic Deacon Sharpe — of course, that was before she fell into a coma and her family pulled the plug — then ya, I think Colleen Bell can handle a shirtless guy on a pony.”
Watch the clip — and Colbert’s own soap opera — below:
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