Stephen Colbert mocked Alex Jones’ bitter custody battle with his ex-wife on “The Late Show” Monday after the Infowars founder’s lawyer said he’s just “playing a character.”
“Of course, not everyone realizes he’s playing a character, like the most famous Alex Jones supporter: Donald Trump,” Colbert quipped.
“I feel for Alex Jones. Everybody knows that for many years I played a satirical right wing character, OK?” Colbert said. “This happened to me all time, when I played my right wing character, talk radio host Tuck Buckford.”
Colbert then showed a clip of himself as Buckford parodying Jones’ outlandish claims.
“Listen, people! The liberals wanna tattoo Obama logos onto the skin of Christian babies, OK? And it makes me wanna fight!” he says in a Jones-like voice.
A Texas jury will decide in the coming weeks whether Jones’ on-air persona makes him unfit to have custody of his three children with ex-wife Kelly Jones.
“He’s playing a character,” attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo. “He is a performance artist.”
Kelly Jones, who is seeking sole or joint custody of their three children, argued at a pre-trial hearing that her ex-husband’s fiery public persona is no different from his private life.
“He’s not a stable person,” she said. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants J-Lo to get raped.”
“I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress,” she said, referring to Jones’ comments about Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. “He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”
