saw this before on bittorrent but its worth watching again! thanks old_spider

I remember this on the sift a while back, it was a casualty of the great Viacom YouTube purge... Here was the original link:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Stephen-Colbert-Explains-ATT

It had a lot of votes that time as well before it died...

this was top of the sift some months back. still one of my favourites.

Dang. I missed the dead message on this one. Love this clip.

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It's dead again.

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