NYT, Stephen Colbert interview: "Funny About the News"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25questions.html



Funny About the News
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
Published: September 25, 2005

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Will you continue the tradition of political satire that allowed "The Daily Show" to inject so much welcome gravity into the light, goofy realm of late-night TV?

Jon would be so happy as a comedian to hear that he injected gravity. Can I be the one to tell him?

Seriously, what do you have against gravity?

If we thought we added gravity to anything, we would feel that we had failed. We're just trying to ease the pain of people who feel the world is going insane and no one is noticing. We're like Cortaid, something not too heavy that is used for a rash or a bug bite. I wouldn't use it for a wound.

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I especially liked the second sentence of Colbert's second reply there: "We're just trying to ease the pain of people who feel the world is going insane and no one is noticing." (Tried to get that into the subject line for this topic, but it wouldn't fit...)

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I like that line too

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[WinkyDink]

2. Snoopy said it first.

I have it on my fridge (no lie):
"You try to tell them the world has gone mad, but they won't listen."

Sagacious little critter.

[Gloria]

3. OH, they really do get it, they feel it, too!!! That's why

we're in love with them....