![]() ![]() ![]() However, a wink is far more difficult to convey textually than on camera and though Colbert and his writers do their best with marginalia and footnotes, it doesn’t always translate. Stephen Colbert, the television personality, is postmodernism at its best: a straight-faced dunderhead replete with a “nation” of “follows” mitigated by a shared joke. The best moments of the Colbert Report occur when the real Colbert winks through his hyper-conservative nut job alter ego. ![]() Sure, Colbert and his writing staff come up with plenty of hilarious assertions: Senior citizens do kind of look like lizards, and, yeah, it would be sexy if a woman ordered a side of bacon on the first date. Unfortunately, Colbert’s brand of satire is better suited for half-hour episodes of the Colbert Report than 230 pages of cringe-inspiring satire.Īs consistently amusing as the Colbert Report is, I Am America (And So Can You!) beats the joke into the ground, digs it up, has it taxidermied, and then takes it out and shoots it. ![]() Stephen Colbert, or more accurately his right wing alter ego developed on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, has released “his” first book, I Am America (And So Can You!). ![]()
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