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Who's hungry for power? Stephen Colbert dons Hunger Games-inspired costume to tape a skit at the Republican National Convention

By CLEMENCE MICHALLON

Stephen Colbert recorded a skit ahead of the Republican national convention Sunday - and his blue wig and costume looked like the glittery promise of many Hunger Games-inspired puns.

The Late Show host visited the Quicken Loans arena in Cleveland, Ohio for the taping, just a day before the start of the four-day convention.

He sported two different outfits. One of them included a sparkly Stars And Stripes vest, and the other, a tuxedo with a giant bow tie, a blue wig and matching eyebrows, made him look like the Hunger Games character Caesar Flickerman.

Colbert has impersonated Flickerman several times before in a series of skits called The Hungry For Power Games, which has chronicled the presidential election in sketches such as 'Carson Eversleep', 'Dyin' Ted' and 'May The Branch Be Forever In Your Face'.

In the Hunger Games series, Flickerman hosts the Hunger Games in front of a crowd of rich viewers from the upper-crust Capitol.

Colbert began impersonating him in September 2015, adopting Flickerman's campy delivery, flashy outfits and overly enthusiastic laugh.

The series has also drawn a comparison between the presidential candidates and the Hunger Games' tributes, a crop of young people who must kill one another in a desperate effort to survive.

Colbert also carried a stuffed weasel while recording his skit and at one point set the animal on a chair with a handwritten sign reading 'Gov Christie'.

he Late Show will have live coverage of both the Republican convention, from July 18 to 21, and the Democratic convention, from July 25 to 28.

Jon Stewart will come out of retirement temporarily to assist Colbert with the coverage, Vulture reported.
The former Daily Show host will be on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Monday. His specific role hasn't been revealed, but the episode will kick off the two weeks of convention coverage on Colbert's show.

Colbert has nicknamed this year's GOP convention the The 2016 Trumpublican Donational Conventrump, Starring Donald Trump As the Republican Party. His name for the Democratic event is The 2016 Democratic National Convincing a Technically Historic Event: Death. Taxes. Hillary.

His guests for the two weeks of convention coverage will include, according to Vulture, Anthony Weiner, Elizabeth Warren and John Oliver.