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Colbert Brings ‘Hungry for Power Games’ to the DNC

By Will Levith
July 26, 2016 5:52 am EDT

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert got the comedic side of politics right for years at the helm of Comedy Central’s the Colbert Report. So it makes sense that he’d fit right in at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “I went down to Philly to bask in the upcoming Democratic conflict,” said Colbert. And he did it with his spot-on spoof of The Hunger Games. Watch it unfold below.

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