Stephen Colbert isn’t surprised by RFK Jr’s bizarre worm revelation: ‘Insanity now explained’

Late-night show host Stephen Colbert has reacted to Robert F Kennedy Jr’s extraordinary revelation that a worm ate part of his brain and died inside his dead by launching a spoof campaign video entitled: “The Amazing Adventures of Worm in Brain-Man.”

Executed in the style of a vintage kids’ Spider-Man cartoon, the rapidly-assembled animation took aim at the independent presidential candidate who has been regularly criticised over his anti-vaccine and conspiratorial stance.

The segment opened with a clip of incredulous CNN anchor John Berman introducing the story before cutting to a short film featuring a worm slithering its way into RFK Jr’s ear and duly influencing some of the budding politician’s more controversial public statements.

An accompanying song rings out, declaring, as follows:

“Worm in brain, worm in brain, makes him say stuff that’s insane,

“It burrowed in, ate his thoughts, now he tells people: ‘Don’t get shots.’

“Look out! He’s got a worm in brain – insanity now explained!

“Check out his new campaign!”

It emerged this week that RFK Jr, a former environmental lawyer turned long-shot presidential candidate and the son of the late New York senator and attorney general Robert F Kennedy, made the bizarre admission about the worm in his brain during a deposition during his 2012 divorce proceedings, The New York Times reported.

He reportedly said he had begun to experience “cognitive problems” and both short and long-term memory loss in 2010, not long after his uncle, the late Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy, died from the effects of brain cancer.

The NYT said the record of the deposition showed Mr Kennedy had initially feared that he, too, had a brain tumour.

But he received a second opinion from a doctor