Given this presidential election season’s lineup of clowns, it would only make sense that another might join their ranks from the venerable political training ground that is Comedy Central. Yes, folks, Stephen Colbert is once again running for our nation’s highest office. God bless Citizens United!

Colbert’s colleague and business partner Jon Stewart also gets in on the electoral excitement in this clip from Thursday’s “Colbert Report,” but let it be stated that the two comics are in no way coordinating their actions at this time. –KA

Colbert Nation:

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