Excellent Colbert article - New York Magazine

[elfin]

New York magazine via Slate - 7 pages of great information, background and analysis. A must read for all fans.

Stephen Colbert Has America by the Ballots
The former Jon Stewart protégé created an entire comic persona out of right-wing doublespeak, trampling the boundary between parody and politics. Which makes him the perfect spokesman for a political season in which everything is imploding.
By Adam Sternbergh

(Photo: Andrew Eccles)
Stephen Colbert is running at full stride. As he enters the studio, the audience is already cheering. He is dressed, as he seems always to be dressed, in a sharp suit and conservative tie, with rectangular rimless glasses and perfectly parted hair, so that when he does his short victory lap on the floor of the studio, he looks like a gleeful bank manager who’s just won the lottery or possibly lost his mind.

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This has been a very good year for Stephen Colbert, both the 42-year-old, God-fearing, Catholic Church–attending comedian and his even-more-God-fearing, lefty-baiting, fact-averse TV alter ego. He’s about to celebrate the first anniversary of his show, The Colbert Report, on the very first episode of which he coined truthiness, a term that’s been embraced as the summarizing concept of our age. He was invited to give the keynote speech at a dinner for the president and wound up delivering a controversial, possibly very funny, possibly horribly unfunny, possibly bravely patriotic, and possibly near-seditious monologue that earned him a crazed mob of lunatic followers who await his every command. (Which is ironic, not least to Colbert, since his show is essentially a satire of the kinds of people who have crazed mobs of lunatic followers who await their every command.) And he finds himself smack-dab in the middle of an election season in which farce—a language that, right now, no one is speaking more fluently than Colbert—is barely outpacing the front page. On a recent Monday morning, he scanned a preliminary script for that evening’s show, on which topic one was Republican Mark Foley and his lewd messages to teenage congressional pages. Colbert was practically giggling. “This is my favorite part,” he said, then slipped into his character’s voice. “People, you don’t understand: He was the co-chairman of the Caucus for Missing and Exploited Children!” He cracks up, partly at the delectable irony and partly at the word caucus. The underlying message in his grin, though, is clear: Seriously—you can’t make this shit up.


Much more with good pics at.....

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/news/politics/22322/

[skids]

1. "farce is barely outpacing the front page" lol.

That's almost as funny as "it's getting harder and harder to distinguish truth from satire."

:rofl:

[this_side_up]

2. lol - excellent article. Stephen Jr can be

tracked here

http://www.iws.org

[elfin]

3. Thanks - looks like he is

in South Dakota? Thought he went "over the border" out of the USA fro one of Colbert's shows.

[DaveJ]

4. Looks like Canada to me

Are you looking at another eagle?

[elfin]

5. Oh yes, NOW I see it

after enlarging the image - east of the Rockies - thanks.