GAT_00: I like Colbert, but I can't watch his show because I can't stand his audience.

I have the same problem, and its the same reason I cant watch Letterman anymore. They clap instead of laugh. Letterman is worse, but Colbert's has got the same thing going on.

Also, Colberts speech at the White House Dinner in 2006 is heroic and historic and is one of the great speeches ever. I say that with no hyperbole.

There are many copies and they have a plan.

I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages paragraphs all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. agreed.

Oh, the schoolgirl crush I have on him.

I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. I always preferred Colbert to Stewart for some unknown reason.

I'm weird. If I watch Colbert before Stewart, I really dislike him. If I watch him after, he's the funniest guy on TV. I have no clue why this is.

GAT_00: I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. I always preferred Colbert to Stewart for some unknown reason.

I like Colbert, but I can't watch his show because I can't stand his audience.

Hey, good observation. Colbert's audience sound like a bunch of idiots. I've learned to tune them out. The show itself is pretty awesome. The interview part has been a mixed bag for me.

I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. I always preferred Colbert to Stewart for some unknown reason.

This.

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/// Haven't heard that "song" in a while now...

Fat suits are typically the antithesis of humor, but that right there is hilarious.

I think Colbert far surpasses Stewart in comedy. Stewart sometimes takes himself too seriously. Colbert can't because he has to stay in character.

I adore his show!

TheShavingofOccam123: Yeah, get back to me when Roger Ailes is forced to resign from Fox "News".

When did that happen?

AeAe: Colbert's audience sound like a bunch of idiots.

Considering the sort of journalist that Colbert is parodying, I think that is completely appropriate. I write them off as part of the bit. Heck, the pre-show warm-up probably encourages the audience to behave this way.

He'll always be Chuck Noblet to me.

If you'd like to read the article in one go without page clicks, or maybe if you want to send it to a reading device, here you go.

Lollipop165: I think Colbert far surpasses Stewart in comedy. Stewart sometimes takes himself too seriously.

Stewart's bit is different; he's the "straight man" and leaves it to his staff to be funny. He's supposed to be the guy trapped in the mess.

And it turns out Stewart is very dependent on his staff. For most of the "news" part of the show it's everyone else making the jokes while Stewart watches in horror or tries in vain to question them. To his credit he's been honest about it -- always making sure to credit his anchors on the show and outright admitting how useless he was without them during the strike.

Beyond that, and I admit I'm speculating, but I think Jon Stewart is just getting tired and burned out. He's been in show business longer than Colbert, and he's had to air his show through some very dark days in America. After a while, drowning yourself in bad news and derp and insanity so the country can laugh would take its toll, I'd imagine.

This article, however, shows how Colbert is better than Stewart. Not that he's funnier, which is a matter of opinion, but that when Jon Stewart saw all the corruption going on, he responded by (in his own words) "throwing tomatoes at a chalkboard". As a lifelong entertainer, it's all he knows how to do. Colbert is diving in the mud of U.S. politics and then going on TV showing his muddy hands saying, "See? It's mud!" He's brilliant, and here's hoping he could put some cracks in the dam for the grassroots to hammer at.

Love Colbert.

Kid Mojo: Love Colbert.

What, another one?! How many more Colberts are there??

I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. I always preferred Colbert to Stewart for some unknown reason.

Probably because Colbert is actually funny. Stewart is a better host by several degrees of magnitude than Kilborn could have ever hoped to be, but he still isn't that funny. And his interviews are just awful. Once in a great while he will put someone on the spot, but 98% of the time he pulls his punches. And when he likes the guest, it's just awful. I thought he was going to get on his knees and start servicing Tony Bennett, the way he kept gushing. (And really, who in their right mind thought that TDS audience cares about Tony Bennett - half of them probably had no idea who he even was).

But in order not to threadjack this into a Jon Stewart hate thread -- the Correspondents Dinner speech was one of the greatest moments of political satire in American history. And all the more scathing to give live and directly to the people that had been in complete dereliction of duty for the previous several years. And the exploits of Colbert Super PAC similarly show how rotten to the core our system is while being hilarious and horrifying at the same time. No one will remember Stewart in a few years, but Colbert deserves to mentioned with the likes of Mark Twain and Lenny Bruce.

Samsquantch: the Correspondents Dinner speech was one of the greatest moments of political satire in American history.

Our duty as citizens is to not let that moment die. There are few people who have the courage to speak truth to power when power is sitting a shoe's throw away.

Honestly, at that time America was so farked up I was convinced they'd silence Colbert. In fact the media actually tried hard to ignore the story, but it had gone viral. So of course they're after Net Neutrality next.

The Colbert Report is astoundingly popular here in Texas, where practically everyone is a red-meat Republican values voter. I chalked it up to people being willing to be humorous and self-deprecating until I heard about this:

http://motherjones.com/riff/2009/04/conservatives-think-colbert-serio u s

and I never looked at my neighbors the same, ever again.

Samsquantch: I Have The Touch of a Shocked Monkey: I rarely read online articles longer than 3 pages all the way through, but that was a very interesting piece. I always preferred Colbert to Stewart for some unknown reason.

Probably because Colbert is actually funny. Stewart is a better host by several degrees of magnitude than Kilborn could have ever hoped to be, but he still isn't that funny. And his interviews are just awful. Once in a great while he will put someone on the spot, but 98% of the time he pulls his punches. And when he likes the guest, it's just awful. I thought he was going to get on his knees and start servicing Tony Bennett, the way he kept gushing. (And really, who in their right mind thought that TDS audience cares about Tony Bennett - half of them probably had no idea who he even was).

But in order not to threadjack this into a Jon Stewart hate thread -- the Correspondents Dinner speech was one of the greatest moments of political satire in American history. And all the more scathing to give live and directly to the people that had been in complete dereliction of duty for the previous several years. And the exploits of Colbert Super PAC similarly show how rotten to the core our system is while being hilarious and horrifying at the same time. No one will remember Stewart in a few years, but Colbert deserves to mentioned with the likes of Mark Twain and Lenny Bruce.

Okay, fine.

But could Twain or Bruce pull this off:

Do I even have to mentioned to someone called GreatGlavinsGhost that Mr. Burns has the only nude photo of Mark Twain, so we will never be able to properly compare them?

Samsquantch: Do I even have to mentioned to someone called GreatGlavinsGhost that Mr. Burns has the only nude photo of Mark Twain, so we will never be able to properly compare them?

Nude because he doesn't have the balls to wear an American Flag^TM?

/I accept your apology.

Here's the problem: Retardumblicans Don't Get It.

RDGI, man.

RDGI.

;)

I became a lifetime-devoted Stephen Colbert fan when I saw his interview with the guy who had replaced all his teeth with "teeth" made from gravel in his driveway.

With a perfect reporter's respect and sincerity, he asked (paraphrasing -- I can't find the video anywhere)

"Aside from the enormous, crippling pain and chance of massive life-threatening infection, is there any reason somebody shouldn't do this?"

I couldn't believe they didn't get him to host TDS when Kilborn left, and I wrote Comedy Central after I saw the first fake ad for the Colbert Report on TDS -- I SO wanted to watch that show

And I've never regretted it.