Unlike his fulminating role-models on Fox News, Colbert's character never bullies or shouts at his guests. 'The emotion of the shouting would shut the guest down,' he observes. Perhaps it's this kinder, gentler approach that regularly leads to the remarkable sight of apparently sane guests getting sucked into the parallel universe of Colbert's famous neologism 'truthiness', that is, feelings-as-logic. On The Colbert Report one regularly sees real politicians getting so bamboozled that they can barely respond when Colbert blithely insists, 'I'm not making this up - I'm imagining it!' Or when he bellows forth the victorious non-sequitur, 'I accept your apology!' Even with guests who 'get' the joke and come to play along, Colbert has more than enough improvisational skills to keep the show afloat; there's just one thing that will kill an interview, he says, which is when the guest insists on 'dropping joke bombs'.