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====Later years====
[[File:Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama, 2014.jpg|thumb|President [[Barack Obama]] guest-hosting the show in 2014]]
In 2010, while in character, Colbert appeared before judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue of farm workers and [[immigration]].<ref name="congress">{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stephen-colbert-asked-testify-immigration/story?id=11717624|title=Stephen Colbert Takes On Congress, Sarcastically Argues for Farm Workers|last=Jaffe|first=Matthew|publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=September 24, 2010|access-date=December 10, 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221042334/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/stephen-colbert-asked-testify-immigration/story?id=11717624|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The New Yorker]]'' used Colbert's testimony before Congress as an example of the "third" Colbert: "Colbert was thoughtful and sincere—and had ruined the whole thing. By speaking honestly, he had become the very thing he was mocking, a celebrity testifying before Congress."<ref name="newyorker14"/> Beginning in June 2011, the show created a long-running gag that involved Colbert starting his own actual super PAC, [[Colbert Super PAC|Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow]], described by the character as "100 percent legal and at least 10 percent ethical."<ref name="cbss12">{{cite news|date=January 13, 2012|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-colbert-isnt-really-running-for-president/|title=Stephen Colbert isn't really running for president|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date=November 21, 2014|archive-date=December 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211041924/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-colbert-isnt-really-running-for-president/|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2012, Colbert interviewed illustrator/author [[Maurice Sendak]], who managed to get him to [[break character]]; show staff and Colbert himself retrospectively labeled the segment one of the show's more memorable moments.<ref name="hp15"/> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' called the September 2013 interview with political commentator and former CIA official [[Philip Mudd]] Colbert's "most awkward interview", stating Mudd "could barely disguise his contempt" for Colbert.<ref name="mudd">{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/13/entertainment/la-et-st-stephen-colbert-philip-mudd-interview-20130913|title=Stephen Colbert's most awkward interview ever?|first=Meredith|last=Blake|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=September 13, 2013|access-date=December 25, 2015|archive-date=December 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225153741/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/13/entertainment/la-et-st-stephen-colbert-philip-mudd-interview-20130913|url-status=live}}</ref>
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