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# Stephen Colbert Mocks Alex Jones With a Fiery New Right-Wing Character

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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.

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