Herschel Walker recently received an unexpected on-air phone call from square-jawed TV news anchor James Smartwood, who asked the badge-carrying Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Georgia to help recover a stolen laptop.
Walker politely took the anchor's phone number and promised to follow up. But just like Walker's law enforcement credentials, the crime wasn't real and neither was Smartwood, one of the animated characters on "Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News" on Comedy Central.
Colbert could barely contain his glee when asked about the moment on the program during a recent Zoom call at his office at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York.
