How Morrissey fell for the Stephen Colbert effect | Simon Hattenstone

The satirist's five-minute prodding and poking of Morrissey is a classic example of the interviewer as irritantThere have been a few memorable interviews with Morrissey before – most of them hinting at a preference for animals over humans. In this very organ, the miserabilist rocker told poet Simon Armitage that the Chinese were a "subspecies" because of the way they treated animals.But American satirical TV host Stephen Colbert's five-minute gem on Tuesday tops the lot. It's a classic exa...

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