--- title: Stephen Colbert Alex Jones Impression VIDEO description: Stephen Colbert impersonates Info Wars' Alex Jones with a right-wing news host character Tuck Buckford. canonical: https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-20T12:42:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-14T22:10:02.000Z og:title: Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a New Fiery Character og:description: The host took Jones to task over his legal battle with a punishing impression og:url: https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a New Fiery Character twitter:description: The host took Jones to task over his legal battle with a punishing impression twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a Fiery New Right-Wing Character by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:10 PM UTCPublished: Apr 20, 2017 12:42 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 14, 2023 10:10 PM UTCPublished: Apr 20, 2017 12:42 PM UTC [Stephen Colbert](http://time.com/4746256/stephen-colbert-on-trump-russia/) is having more fun taking radio host [Alex Jones](http://time.com/4743025/alex-jones-infowars-divorce-donald-trump/) to task — and he’s using a new impression to get the job done. On Wednesday’s _Late Show_, the host impersonated Jones with a new Jones-like character “Tuck Buckford,” a hard-charging conspiracy theorist prone to firing off pro-masculinity, anti-government tirades. “I don’t know about you, but I have been riveted to the trial of the century of the week,” Colbert said, breezing through some of the finer points of his target’s parental custody battle. “But I feel for Alex Jones because I, too, for many years played a beloved right-wing character,” Tuck Buckford, “who had a lot of the same legal problems, which he often talked about on his radio show.” Colbert then played a clip of the character screaming his way through the parody segment _Brain Fight_. He also went to town on the [Austin _American-Statesman_](http://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/alex-jones-110-percent-believe-what-stand-for/uzeik8rpLrK0UyKm8lz1MN/) report that Jones couldn’t recall details about his children’s school because he had “eaten a lot of chili for lunch.” Watch him demonstrate how to use “God’s food” in the totally safe for work video below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/"},"headline":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a Fiery New Right-Wing Character","datePublished":"2017-04-20T12:42:59.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-14T22:10:02.000Z","description":"The host took Jones to task over his legal battle with a punishing impression","url":"https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/","keywords":["Newsfeed","stephen colbert","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4748086/stephen-colbert-on-alex-jones-2/","name":"Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a Fiery New Right-Wing Character"}}]}] ```