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Can't say U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva doesn't have a good sense of humor — or at the least, a strong dose of gumption. Grijalva has agreed to appear on Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" for the show's segment "Better Know A District."

During the feature, host Stephen Colbert — a parody character of Bill O'Reilly — skewers representatives with a mix of offbeat, deadpan humor and arcane facts about their districts.

"Once I committed, I couldn't get out of it," Grijalva said. "My wife told me, 'Are you stupid or what?' "

He then listed a slew of his colleagues who, to put it charitably, might now regret their interviews with Colbert, who gained renown as a correspondent on "The Daily Show."

Why would Grijalva throw himself before a comedic train?

That's not really clear, but the smart money says he didn't know what he was getting into.

His spokeswoman, Natalie Luna, said the congressman's younger staffers lobbied for the appearance on the show, which caters to a young, hip crowd (hey, like Notebook).

"The staff strong-armed him," she said.

Besides, she added, "The congressman is pretty quick on his feet."

Details have yet to be ironed out, but the taping should be in a few weeks.

Fulfilling the desires of a growing group of motorized-bicycle riders, Rep. Tom Prezelski, D-Tucson, pushed a bill through the Legislature last year that classifies gas-driven bikes as traditional bikes.

Well, last weekend, Prezelski joined about 40 of the bikers on a trip up Mt. Lemmon — Death Race 2007, it's called. With the help of the bike's motor, it took Prezelski an hour and 15 minutes to make it to the top.

"I'm quite out of shape, being that I'm in the Legislature," he said.

We're expecting the e-mails about how Prezelski and the bikers are increasing their carbon footprint. But we're not gonna go there.

In January, Rep. Steve Farley introduced a bill in the Legislature to ban driving while text messaging (DWT). The Tucson Democrat's bill didn't get too far in the Republican Legislature.

Well, last Sunday, the Los Angeles Times ran a story on the dangers of texting and quoted Farley. In it, Farley says the bill has been "bottled up by a 'very libertarian dude' of a committee chair who opposes government regulation of such behavior."

Farley says CNN is now working on a story, "adding to the scores of magazines, newspapers and TV news stations that have reported on my bill," he wrote in an e-mail to supporters.

"All this proves that while you may not be able to get a bill heard in committee," Farley wrote, "you certainly can get it heard all across the country."

And speaking of Farley, it looks like he's part of a group of male lawmakers who share fashion tips at the state Capitol.

During a recent meeting, Farley was looking colorful in a red shirt and tie, when Tempe Democrat David Schapira (at 26 during the November election, he's the youngest member of the Legislature) got on him for wearing horizontal stripes against vertical ones — a fashion no-no, according to Schapira.

"He's getting much better," Schapira said of Farley.

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