English actor Patrick Stewart appeared on The Colbert Report Monday to lampoon the ongoing series of fake Obamacare horror stories. Stewart plays “actual Louisiana resident” Chuck Duprey, an “average American Joe” and “supposed non-actor.” When howling about his health insurance woes, he says that his problems are “ALL BECAUSE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE…line?”
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(The Colbert segment ends with “Chuck” dying while shouting, “repeal…and…replace!”)
On Monday night, Stewart tweeted this pic:
Chuck Duprey has a thing ‘er two to say tonight ’bout Obamacare. @StephenAtHome #ColbertReport pic.twitter.com/mwP02Q67gy
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 4, 2014
Stewart went on The Daily Show last year to talk about his famous lobster costume and how Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford are basically comedians with “bad script writers.” Stewart has also worked with the Ring the Bell campaign (a movement that calls on men and boys to help end violence against women), and stars in several Amnesty International videos on violence against women, including this one in which he discusses growing up in a violent household:
