Stephen Colbert takes a circuitous victory lap on gay marriage

Stephen Colbert takes a circuitous victory lap on gay marriage
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On the Colbert Report, faux conservative blowhard Stephen Colbert strongly opposes same-sex marriage. Until Tuesday night's show. As a lead-up to his conversation with David Boies and Theodore Olson, the super-lawyers who teamed up to successfully argue for gay marriage before the Supreme Court, character Colbert changed his stance on the issue to "I'm not saying" — a trick he picked up from Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.).

The actor Stephen Colbert almost certainly supports same-sex marriage, and after character Stephen Colbert harrumphs about how quickly gay marriage "has spread like dysentery through a cruise ship," it probably felt slightly liberating to come out for poll-tested public neutrality on the issue. --Peter Weber

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Peter Weber

Peter Weber is a senior editor at TheWeek.com, and has handled the editorial night shift since the website launched in 2008. A graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine. He speaks Spanish and Italian and plays bass and rhythm cello in an Austin rock band. Follow him on Twitter.