Colbert: 'Mustaches don't make you gay, but they don't help'

Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, adopting his faux-outraged-conservative schtick, was aghast during a recent interview with a Republican congressman who observed that gays and lesbians "are not out to destroy marriage."

"If they're not out to destroy marriage, then what are they out to destroy?" Colbert asked Rep. Bob Inglis, a Republican from Colbert's home state of South Carolina. "They've already claimed mustaches and short-shorts; they've ruined those for the rest of us."

Inglis was skeptical about the mustache claim.

"Oh yeah. Look at some of the congressmen who has mustaches, look at how they vote," Colbert said, displayed some previous mustachioed guests of his "Better Know a District" segments.

"[It's] a statistical correlation, it's not cause and effect," Colbert said. "Mustaches don't make you gay, but they don't help."



The following video is from Comedy Central's Colbert Report, broadcast on January 30, 2008



