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Colbert takes credit for 'fixing' Canada

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Date: Thursday Jan. 26, 2006 4:23 PM ET

TORONTO (CP) - Disheartened about the Conservative win in Monday's election, or delighted? Either way, American comedian Stephen Colbert says he's behind Canada's step to the right.

"I fixed Canada!" Colbert exclaimed Wednesday night on his show, The Colbert Report (pronounced RAY-pore), which airs Monday to Thursday. Colbert noted that his show debuted in Canada on Nov. 7, and featured a message, replayed on Wednesday's show, to Canadians: "I am Stephen Colbert. I have balls. If you're lucky, they might just rub off on you."

"Well, it looks like my balls rubbed all over Canada," Colbert noted triumphantly as a photo of Prime Minister-designate Stephen Harper and a Canadian flag appeared behind him. "Because they just elected a new prime minister, Stephen Harper, an American-loving, health-care-dismantling Bush wannabe."

"I fixed Canada in 77 days!" he exclaimed as balloons fell from above and a band played a jaunty tune.

The Colbert Report, a satire of personality-driven pundit shows like The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, is a spinoff from the award-winning Daily Show, considered one of the hippest shows on the airwaves.

Colbert portrays a right-wing host prone to fits of utter and hilarious buffoonery on the Colbert Report.

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