Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report praised — in his hyper ironic way — the propeitor of the Latham “gentleman’s club” Night Moves that was at the center of the Court of Appeals case over whether lap dances constitute art.

The legal dispute between the club and the state began over the disagreement over whether the business is exempt from the state’s sales tax.

Making an appearance in the video is Times Union writer Steve Barnes, who does declare exotic dance, er, art, even if his glasses became fogged up with “breast sweat.”

While Colbert praises the owner of Night Moves as a “difference maker and the “Martin Luther King” of strippers, Barnes suggests that, “I think he’s just trying to save himself a great deal of money.”

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