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Stephen Colbert criticized Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, for his alleged porn addiction in Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show.
Earlier this week, it was reported that Robinson, who is running on an evangelical Christian platform, visited his local porn shop up to five times a week in the 1990s and early 2000s.
“A North Carolina news site reports that Robinson went to a porn shop almost every day in the ’90s and early 2000s,” Colbert said during his opening monologue. “Of course, you have to go every day or you won’t get the latest porn. It’s not like they refrigerate the stuff.”
The talk show host was amazed at Robinson’s alleged consistency and said: “He almost went everyone day for over a decade. I do not anything almost every day for a decade. Mark Robinson went to the porn shop more regularly than I flossed.”
“Robinson wasn’t just window shopping,” Colbert added. “The same report says that over the years, Robinson Hundreds of pirated porn videos … I’m talking Armageddon is tonight, Pulp frictionand of course Sex toy history. Surprisingly, the title song is also ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’.”
Robinson, North Carolina’s first African-American lieutenant governor, has a controversial past in which he compared abortion to slavery, quoted Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and called LGBT+ people “trash.” He also claimed that Marvel’s 2018 film Black Panther was made by “an agnostic Jew and filmed by satanic Marxists.”
He was elected to office in 2020, two years after his speech supporting gun rights went viral following the school massacre in Parkland, Florida.
On Tuesday, the North Carolina investigative website published The Assembly published an interview with a former employee of a 24-hour porn video store in Greensboro who said Robinson “came every night I worked, which is five nights a week.”
“He spent a lot of money,” said store employee Louis Money. Five other customers and employees also reportedly confirmed Robinson’s frequent presence.
Robinson’s campaign spokesman Mike Lonergan said The Assembly in an email that Money’s claims were “nonsense” and a “complete and total fabrication.”
“This false and personal attack on my boss is pure fabrication,” Lonergan wrote.
