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If you thought
President Obama is the only US politician with an outrageously engaging sense of humour, you couldn't have been further away from the truth. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been touring the United States to promote her memoir,
Hard Choices, may just have trumped the current US President, and the former champion of poker-faced interviews.
If her appearance on 'The Daily Show' with Jon Stewart is anything to go by, the lady always seems to have her funny side up. Jon makes her take an aptitude test, you know, just in case she wants change of career and as it turns out she'd like 'an office without any corners' (Oval Office, anyone?).
Watch, and tell us if this former First Lady isn't downright charming:
Not convinced yet? Well, we have more. Her entrance on The Colbert Report was timed right in the middle of a very long rant by host Stephen, who would have us know that Hillary's book is nothing but '656 pages of shameless name-dropping'.
And in case you thought he was exaggerating, he gives examples too. She knows the Tanzanian Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and more; which is basically about 60% of the VVIPS from across the world.
Not to be outdone in all the talking and ranting, Hillary calmly engages in a name-dropping face-off, and there are no prizes for guessing who wins.
We do understand the anger that Stephen feels, though. We really do. After all, the man knows Oprah, Tom Hanks and is also pen-pals with an anonymous Nigerian prince. AND he knows Bill Clinton, the former President of the United States of America.
Oh, wait! She's met Bill too? Lord, does she have to know everyone? Poor Stephen. We feel for you, sir.
It is also mighty impossible to sit through the bit about the 'hard choice' Stephen gives her - 'Which would you rather fight: One horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses?' - without rooting for her rap-like revised version of
Old MacDonaldHad a Farm. Well done, madam.
After watching Hillary's poker-straight face-off with Colbert, frankly it is difficult not to get bowled over: