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# Colbert Report Takes on Beast Jesus Master
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/colbert-report-beast-jesus/
- Published: 2012-09-21T15:00:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:02:05.000Z
- Description: The tragic/demented/whatever-it-is story of Cecilia Gimenez has entered a new phases of its pop culture notoriety when last night Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report took on the Spanish restoration "master."
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Beast Jesus, Cecilia Gimenez, Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

**The Colbert Report**   
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The tragic/demented/whatever-it-is story of Cecilia Gimenez has entered a new phases of its pop culture notoriety when last night Stephen Colbert of [*The Colbert Report*](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/419302/september-20-2012/alpha-dog-of-the-week---cecilia-gimenez?ref=hyperallergic.com) took on the Spanish restoration “master.”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2012/09/screen-shot-2012-09-21-at-10-51-09-am.png "Screen Shot 2012-09-21 at 10.51.09 AM")

She showed a “can-do attitude about things she clearly cannot do,” he says in the segment. “You could say my kid could paint that, but not if your kid had seen a human face.”

Though the joke about the upcoming Dan Brown novel (pictured left) might be my favorite.

*Thank you, Colbert!*