Alex Jones’s batshit-crazy Infowars persona is allegedly nothing but a character, and what do you know, Stephen Colbert of all people understands (and even empathizes with) what that feels like more than anyone else. You see, Colbert used to have a recurring far-right crazed character named Tuck Buckford who hosted an equally crazed radio show called “Brain Fight,” where topics of discussion ranged from Ben Franklin’s irritable-bowel syndrome to the benefits of putting cocaine on giraffe meat. To think the public couldn’t separate the character from the performer!

