This Stephen Colbert Interview With Jimmy Carter Is Hysterical And Endearing (Video)

Former president Jimmy Carter last night appeared on the Colbert Report, and delivered an endearing and hysterical interview with Stephen Colbert. The former president played along perfectly with Colbert’s fake-Republican persona, and admitted he watches Colbert’s show.

President Carter is on tour promoting his new book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. Colbert asked, “This isn’t one of those ’50 Shades’ situations, is it?”

In recent interviews, Carter has called the the physical and emotional abuse, subjugation, trafficking, and inequality of women the “worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth.”

The former president and Colbert discussed a wide range of topics, including violence against women, slavery, equality, Ayn Rand, religion and the Bible, the NSA and wiretapping, and the Pope. Carter said he would convert from his Southern Baptist faith to Colbert’s Roman Catholic faith one two conditions: Pope Francis remains Pope, and when the Catholic Church allows women to be priests.

Carter also discussed his book, saying that Jesus Christ “exalted women,” and noted there are 36,000 verses in the Bible. Colbert quipped that Americans view religious freedom as the freedom to pick and choose among them to support your personal world view.

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Colbert and Carter also discussed the former president’s marriage with Rosalynn, whom he says he’s still getting to know after 68 years of marriage, and he joked about how the American people retired him after only one term.

And yes, Colbert did have on hand a six-pack of Billy Beer.

Watch — in two parts:

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