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Look, obviously Sam Campbell is a comedy sensation and everyone already knows about him. I don’t need to explain his idiosyncratic brilliance and his popularity is incredibly well established.

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The mathematician-turned-musician wrote songs that, decades later, still make readers laugh.

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But before he declared that the Grand Canyon could be known as “Donald’s Gaping Hole,” Colbert joked that living in America these days is a lot like being the passenger in a car with a drunk driver.