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.