Smithsonian hangs Colbert

Stephen Colbert was denied last year when he tried to run for president in South Carolina. Now, after lobbying for it on his Comedy Central show, “The Colbert Report,” the fake TV pundit is getting some love from the city of his birth.

His portrait was hung Wednesday at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington for a six-week showing in what the museum considers an “appropriate place” -- right between the bathrooms near the “America’s Presidents” exhibit.

“We agreed to go along with the joke and hang it for a short time in between the bathrooms,” said museum spokeswoman Bethany Bentley. “Let me tell you two key things here: His portrait is not coming into the collection, and it’s not hanging permanently.”