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NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert was raised in South Carolina to be a Southern gentleman. But he spends his days being a jerk. It must be tough.
Not really, says the Comedy Central star.
“I was taught to be nice, so it’s not in my nature to be a jerk,” he told a crowd at the New Yorker Festival. “But I do enjoy it.”
Colbert, host of “The Colbert Report,” figures that is because he is embarrassment-proof.
“There’s an essential embarrassment to being a jerk, and I just don’t get embarrassed about things,” he explained.
