Is that why he's done The Chip Znuff Podacast so many times? Because they're such good friends?

You mean the man Norton stole 95% of her persona from?

but he couldn't keep it up and has turned to the polar opposite of that man in every respect (i.e. ugly, wormish, backstabbing, middle-of-the-road, emotionally void, gay, unmarried, unloved etc.)

For this reason alone, Colin is a saint.