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DePauw Media Fellows student Dave Jorgenson recounts his experience working as intern at ‘The Colbert Report’, and making his television debut as ‘Dave the Unpaid Intern’.

The famous television host and comedian, Stephen Colbert, was looking deep into my eyes. His face was filled with loss and desperation. Everything felt very surreal, and all I could do was bite my bottom lip, forcing myself to keep a straight face. Was this a dream? What had I done to put that look on his face?

Two weeks before, I was walking a box of mail to the Viacom headquarters in Times Square. Because Stephen is so funny and Americans are so stupid, we have to get the mail scanned to make sure no one is poisoning him. Unfortunately, some people haven’t full grasped the concept of satire.

I have always offered to do anything at anytime at “The Colbert Report” since I started my internship there on Jan. 3. I have traveled to Chinatown on a desperate search for slugs and snails that lasted three hours. I came in at 5:30 a.m. one Friday morning to work as a production assistant for the Stephen-Colbert-chases-Jon-Stewart-through-New-York film shoot, otherwise known as “The Super Pac Chase” (available for your viewing pleasure online at ColbertNation.com! No, Viacom didn’t pay me to say that…But they did for staring into Stephen’s eyes. More on that later).

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