Stephen Colbert will once again jump into the presidential fray when he temporarily relocates his show next week to the City of Brotherly Love.

“The Colbert Report” will move from Manhattan to Philadelphia for four days beginning April 14, in the lead-up to the all-important Democratic Pennsylvania primary on April 22.

“I don’t need to be president,” Colbert dead-panned in a recent interview. “If somebody else needs that, if Hilary Clinton or John McCain or Barack Obama need that title to make themselves feel good, that’s fine.

“I just want the power to decide who will be president and I’m going to Philly to help exercise that.”

Guests scheduled to drop by include Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Governor Ed Rendell, rap group the Roots and singer John Legend, who will perform “The Star Spangled Banner.”

The show will tape at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, on the University of Pennsylvania campus.

All tickets are sold out, according to a spokeswoman for the centre.

Colbert can currently be seen in tongue-in-cheek advertisements for the upcoming shows. In one, he says, “Philadelphia, you’re about to get a new brother to love. No tongue.”

The TV host previously waded into presidential politics with his failed bid to get his name on the South Carolina Democratic and Republican ballots last fall.






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