Rep. Adam Smith Finds Out He’s on The Soccer Caucus

Stephen Colbert is a comedic genius. He skewers the world of TV punditry by acting out an extreme version of the pundits themselves (of course, even in his extremes, he’s often right on target).

One of the funniest parts of his show, The Colbert Report, is his Better Know a District series, in which he interviews members of Congress (it was to have 435 parts until Colbert retired convicted bribe-taker Duke Cunningham’s district).This past Thursday saw Stephen Colbert interviewing Washington state representative Adam Smith. In between discussions of rhubarb, secret intelligence-gathering programs, and whether he supports NAMBLA (he does not, it turns out), Colbert informed Rep. Smith that he is a member of 29 caucuses, which was news to the congressman.

One of these caucuses, Colbert pointed out, is the Soccer Caucus. (If you’re wondering, yes, this does exist, although its membership has not been updated since the 2006 elections.)

Colbert got his best Andres Cantor on and asked Smith, “You’re on the soccer caucus … what are some of the soccer caucus’ gooooooals?” Watch it for yourself (the soccer bit comes with 0:45 seconds left).