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== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==
* Whenever [[Stephen Colbert]] talks to his [[Companion Cube]] handgun, Sweetness, he holds it up to his deaf ear. I thought this was just weird until someone pointed out that this is to emphasise that the gun isn't really talking to him - the voice is in his head. All the impulses to kill the studio audience are ''his''. --[[Tropers/Rissa|Rissa]]
** Or it could just be that he's right-handed, and would naturally hold a pistol with that hand and hence, lift it to the same ear if he were going to pretend it was speaking to him.
*** OR it could be that all of the above also factor into him being deaf because he discharged the pistol right next to his ear...
** As per his news commentator persona, Stephen almost always has a pen and some paper with him at his desk. And as per his persona's deep-seated rage, Stephen often [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|points an accusing finger at people]] (he even has a segment called "Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger"). It just suddenly hit [[Raven Wilder|me]] one day that, because Stephen holds the pen with his index finger, that means that when he points at something he's usually using a finger that's ... how should I put this? A little more towards the ''middle'' of the hand.
*** As seen on the [[Flame War]] page.
*** Many people point with their middle finger, without meaning anything by it.
*** Yes, but many people aren't Colbert. It's unlikely that this was unintentional on his part.

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