Stephen Colbert on Fresh Air

[K-W]

Im listening in NYC. Very interesting.

Talked about how he was turned off by commenting at all on politics in comedy by the corrupt comedy of politics he saw before with comedians only enforcing preconcieved notions and providing no insight or true satire, but that Jon Stewert asked him to take 'passionate comedic choices' and he discovered that he was a very strong liberal when he started forming opinions.

Talking about his joking on Religion now.

[NNguyenMD]

1. Steph Colbert, rocks, he's hilarious. Daily Show has got a really solid

supporting cast of "fake news journalists". Stephen Colbert, Rob Codry, Ed Helms and Samantha Bee are awesome. The other minor cast member aren't bad, but those 4 stand out best.

Oh wait! I almost forgot about Lewis Black, he kicks ass too.

[DakotaDemocrat]

2. C'mon Caaahhdry

Love it when Cordry goes back to his Southie roots in Boston and Jon always calls him "C'mon Cahdree"

[K-W]

3. A quick recap. (of the portions I caught)

Colbert is a practicing catholic who believes he can be catholic but not agree fully with catholic dogma. When putting religion in comedy he tries to never call into question people's underlying faith but focuses on hypocritical and unjustified actions that people do in the name of religion.

He doesnt like to discuss his own work, he feels analyzing comedy makes it boring.

He talked about being at the conventions and how the Democrats were much more enthusiastic and compared the republican convention to church, everyone was up chearing at the clap lines and singing the songs, but once the planned events were over they were unenergetic.

His charecter on the Daily show is based on Stone Phillips and Geraldo Rivera. His concept is to be very high status but have it clear that he has no idea what he is talking about.

He had an aweful time in High School and told of a teacher at his high school who was fairly openly sexually inappropriate and only later in life was ever held accountable and the fact that the school covered for him.

There is a Strangers with Candy movie making the rounds at festivals now.

I missed the mostly political discussion that was finishing when I tuned in.

[Crankie Avalon]

4. He's actually my favorite Daily Show regular...

...even more so than Jon Stewart, himself.

[Tradnor]

5. Listen online

You can hear the interview on the NPR site:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4464017