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Stephen Colbert talks to Paul Mecurio, host of ‘The Paul Mecurio Show’ about their days working together on ‘The Daily Show,’ his experiences prior to joining ‘The Daily Show’, how ‘The Colbert Report’ was created, and gives a behind-the-scenes account of the Daft Punk cancellation.

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According to a release from Mary Shimkin of Symphony Space, in 2013, “Selected Shorts” plans to go with a rotating panel of guest hosts including (are you ready?) faux right-wing commentator Stephen Colbert, North Carolina-born satirist Dave Sedaris (“The SantaLand Diaries”), actor John Lithgow, Cynthia Nixon (formerly of “Sex and the City”), BD Wong (Dr. Huang from “Law & Order: Special Victims’ Unit”) and author Neil Gaiman (“Sandman,” “American Gods,” etc. etc.).

Each host will fill Sheffer’s chair for four episodes. Other guest hosts will be announced as they confirm, Shimkin said.

The addition of favorites such as Colbert, Sedaris and Gaiman should draw younger fans to “Selected Shorts,” which has been airing since the 1980s and can now be heard on more than 140 radio stations nationwide. It also claims more than 300,000 podcast listeners.

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Stephen Colbert’s latest interview on ‘Fresh Air with Terry Gross’ is now available for download. And if you haven’t already, don’t forget to download Stephen’s last interview in which he discusses ‘America Again’.

Stephen Colbert has no idea how other news pundits find time to write books. But he felt certain that his character on his Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, needed to have another one.

“My character is based on news punditry, the masters of opinion in cable news, and they all have books,” he tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “We don’t have time to write a book and feed and wash ourselves, so something has to go out the window. And [for me] it was family, friends and hygiene for the past year.”

His new book, America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t, includes colorful 3-D photographs and explores “a new message within right-wing punditry worth talking about,” Colbert says — the notion that “our greatest days are ahead of us, and we have the greatest history in the history of history, but this instant right now is completely screwed up, and we’ve got to save America from disaster.”

Besides writing the book and doing his show, Colbert has also been busy running his superPAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow — which he created almost by accident, while parodying a Tim Pawlenty political ad.

Colbert has pulled other political stunts — trying to get on the presidential primary ballot in South Carolina, for example. He says he didn’t want to actually influence the election’s outcome, so he had a plan to bail out in case that became a real possibility: He was going to create his own political scandal.

Though his wife wasn’t thrilled with the plan, Colbert says, “I wanted to, like, actually go down to South Carolina and, like, stumble around Columbia, the capital, like pantsless with a bottle of Jack Daniels and try to get arrested.”

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The audio for Stephen’s interview on “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” will be available at 5:00PM (ET).

Exclusive Web Audio: Stephen: “When I’m brushing my hair in the morning, which is quite an event”.

In the mean time here is a wonderful summary:

“I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open large-but-sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar or tea in the background and a big beard — living alone but with my beard — and doing theater,” he says. “That’s what I thought my life would be. It has not been — and I love what I do — but to be asked to do this and then to accept the challenge of it … I can la-di-da my way through things … but to sing Sondheim is a completely different beast.”

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