Better Know a Fightin' Gay: Colbert interviews the HRC's Joe Solmonese

Last night Stephen Colbert continued his shameless attempts at winning my heart (Enough, Stephen! You had me at "Warrior Poet!") by running the hilarious first segment of a two-part interview with the Human Rights Campaign's Joe Solmonese.

In the span of mere minutes, Colbert's insanopundit persona shoots about a dozen holes in the conservative arguments against equal marriage rights for gay people, and manages to come up with a new word for gay marriage ("Man-riage!") and use "Appletini" to boot. Atta boy!

The "exciting conclusion" airs tonite ... so if you're not too hazy from doing imaginary body-shots off of a cardboard cutout of Perry from Make Me a Supermodel during our liveblog, do check it out.