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APRIL 22, 2019 BREAKING NEWS
Comedian and political neophyte, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, thrashed incumbent Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine’s runoff presidential vote on Sunday. Zelenskiy emerged victorious with 73.2% of the vote versus 24.4% for Poroshenko, a mammoth margin for an actor who played the president on the popular television show, “Servant of the People.”
Zelenskiy’s path to victory was jaw-dropping. The actor plays an unassuming high school teacher, Vasily Goloborodko, who takes on a corrupt political establishment, runs for president and astonishingly, wins. Fiction on television. True in real life.
Poroshenko is a billionaire candy tycoon who was elected five years ago on a torrent of proletarian discontent, following a revolution that ejected pro-Moscow leader, Viktor Yanukovych, from power.
Zelenskiy’s decisive victory gave American comedian Stephen Colbert an idea: “If Zelenskiy can do it, why can’t I?” The Late Show executive producers, Chris Licht and Jon Stewart, solicited feedback from the show’s crew, writers and band leader Jon Batiste. The response was was a trifecta: instantaneous, unanimous and enthusiastic, “Go for it!”
Colbert will formally announce his candidacy tomorrow night on his show, which airs on CBS at 10:30 p.m. (CST). It is already the #1 late-night comedy show, leading a pack of six other shows by a wide margin. The news of Colbert’s candidacy has spread like wildfire on Twitter, Facebook and other social media. Tomorrow night’s television