Fake News fandom was a HUGE part of my fandom life for quite a long time - a show with new episodes four nights a week will do that for you - hell, my default icon is still from that fandom. And yet, weirdly, I when I sat down to think of recs, there were very few fics that actually stuck in my memory? I guess, retrospectively, it was a fandom that was very much about the actual show, and about the people, for me, but there wasn't really all that much in the way of fanfic. And was there was, was nearly all short fic on tds_rps, which seems to sadly be long gone.

Anyway, for people who don't remember those halcyon days when we thought George W. Bush was the worst that American politics could possibly get, "Stephen Colbert" was the host of a comedy news show where he played a parody of a conservative pundit. (I suspect these days he would not even read as an exaggeration anymore...) His show was a spinoff of the Daily Show, a left-leaning, substantially more reality-based comedy news show, which is still going, but was then hosted by Jon Stewart. (Did Jon leaving the Daily Show put a curse on American politics? Look I'm not *not* saying that okay.) The real Stephen and Jon were good friends. The "character" Stephen was a deeply, deeply repressed gay man who had an obvious crush on Jon which he was in severe denial about (this was show canon) and Jon put up with him, for some reason. Obviously people shipped it!

Anyway, it looks like very little of the fic has made it to AO3, and all my old bookmarks are broken links to deleted LJs, and a lot of what is still up is very, very embedded in the time it was written and very specific show references, so this isn't going to be much of a recs list, but here is the fic that was linked in the one old bookmark I had that still worked:

• How Stephen Colbert Proved Jon Stewart Is a Lady (4853 words) by sarken
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: Fake News RPF, Real News RPF, The Colbert Report FPF - Fandom
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: "Stephen" Colbert/Jon Stewart
  Characters: Keith Olbermann, Anderson Cooper, Jon Stewart, "Stephen" Colbert
  Additional Tags: Humor, lgbtfest, Report 'verse, Denial, gender issues
  Summary:

  Stephen says he "doesn't see gender." But he can't possibly be gay, so when he discovers he is attracted to Jon, Stephen concludes that Jon must be female.