Stephen Colbert doesn’t see himself as a paragon of progressivism.

In an interview with GQ covering his two decades as a television host and his sudden cancellation by CBS, Colbert said his “honest” reaction to the news of the day under President Donald Trump left people with an incorrect perception.

“People perceive me as this sort of lefty figure; I think I’m more conservative than people think. I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis,” he said. “What I’m giving you is my reaction video to the day. And my reaction video is like The Scream, in a way, but with jokes … It’s hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on streets of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion.”

Colbert’s long-running talk show was cancelled just days after he joked abou

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