(I couldn't help remembering, incidentally, his character's disparagement of Facebook in the movie Zombieland: jeering at idiots with status updates like: "Limbering up for the weekend").
Described as a "caustic right-wing bully", an "arch-conservative blowhard", and by his creator and namesake as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high status idiot", Colbert is egomaniacal, xenophobic and fiercely anti-intellectual.
Rees is famous for (among many other things) his elevation of the 'village idiot' to global status.
"And look at me," said Stephen Colbert, who plays a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot" of a news correspondent on "The Daily Show".
Colbert once described his character as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot".
He assumes the role of the "well-intentioned, poorly-informed, high-status idiot," and we play his obedient followers.
Described as a "well-intentioned, poorly informed high-status idiot" and a "self-important right-wing commentator," the character incorporates aspects of the real Colbert's life and interests but is primarily a parody of cable news pundits, particularly Bill O'Reilly from Fox News.
No one wants to be on a night bus, and only an idiot would grant them legendary status.
It feels hard to argue with the biology – it may take two people to make a baby, but you'd be an idiot to claim equal parenting status with someone who'd done 36 hours' labour and is now breastfeeding.
Whilst the dame enjoys his/her new-found status as a senior member of the community, the village idiot is recognised for his humility and finds a mate.
