Academy Award™-nominated actor and sometime homicidal soap opera villain James Franco has been called a Renaissance man by certain members of the press. This rankles Stephen Colbert, who uses his show as a platform to besmirch Franco’s name, with help from Franco himself, in this clip from Monday’s “Colbert Report.” –KA

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