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Video: Stephen Colbert Applauds NY Post Hooker Stock Market Cover
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John Del Signore
Published Aug 11, 2011
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Last night Stephen Colbert took a moment to analyze yesterday's NY Post cover, which featured a woman in a red dress seductively smoking a cigarette next to the headline "Crazy stox like a hooker's drawers, UP, DOWN, UP." As Colbert explains, it makes perfect sense, and he thinks more NY Post covers should explore this prostitute/"drawers" analogy:
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cHooker-Drawer Marketwww.colbertnation.com
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"London like a hooker's genitals... BURNING!" is pretty hard to top, but we're sure you commenters can give it a shot. Ooh ooh, here's one: "Subway system like a hooker's childhood home... BROKEN"
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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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