In character, Stephen Colbert has compared Barack Obama to a "Black and Decker cordless Dirt Devil vacuum," but that will not keep the president from making an appearance on one of the comedian's last shows as host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Obama will be on the program on Dec. 8, days before the last "The Colbert Report" episode is scheduled to air. Colbert is set to replace David Letterman as host of CBS' "The Late Show" next year.

"I am so honored to be sitting down with the man who sat down with Bill O'Reilly," Colbert said on his show Thursday as he announced Obama's visit.

The interview will be broadcast from the campus of George Washington University in the nation's capital.

Monday's special episode is titled "Stephen Colbert Presents: Mr. Colbert Goes to Washington D.C. Ya Later, Legislator: Partisan is Such Sweet Sorrow: A Colbert Victory Lap, '014."

It will not be the first time Obama has appeared on "The Colbert Report." While still a senator, he was a guest on the show in 2008. As president, he had "a proper sit-down with Colbert" a year later, during which he jokingly ordered Gen. Ray Odierno to shave the host's head for a broadcast in Baghdad, Time magazine recalled. At the time, Odierno was the commanding officer of U.S. armed forces stationed in Iraq.

Obama's scheduled interview "marks a change of White House policy," Time reports, as former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in 2010 that he would not approve of the president appearing on Colbert's comedy show.

"I have yet to see a politician best Stephen Colbert in an interview on his show," Gibbs said at the time. "I mean, he's really, really good."

"The Colbert Report" debuted on Oct. 17, 2005, after its namesake had made a name for himself as a correspondent character on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." Obama has been a frequent guest on Stewart's program. He appeared four times as a senator and twice as president, most recently in 2012.

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