They’ll still have Ted Baxter, five nights a week.
Colbert has been sticking his thumb in the eye of half the country for a decade. Pardon me if I don’t give a damn about him now.
I named the character Mr Strawman.
He’s done - committed suicide
The fake Colbert was starting to wear thin, and few will watch him out of character in Letterman’s time slot
These people are INSANE.
Interesting that liberals go into paroxysms of bereavement over a fictional character, yet can’t spare a tear for 60 Million Preborn Americans who are murdered before drawing their first breath.
Just sayin.
I thought Colbert as “The Conservative” was funny, and showed the idiocy of what liberals thought conservatives were far more frequently than it actually mocked conservatives
Its like a white man trying to mock a black man by sitting down with a pile of watermelon in front of him all the time. It just shows their mindless conception of the stereotype more than anything else.
Why do so many people over-analyze what is a plain and simple jackass?
Liberals can ponder their own armpit odor.
He’ll flop . . big time
Colbert the Joe Biden of comedy.
It is considered poor taste to mock a group one is not a part of. Colbert is a liberal, so it s rude for him to play a conservative, unlike, say Jeff Foxworthy and his band of redneck comics. Liberals, who have no class, don’t know the difference.
There are two kinds of satire, which I’ll call real satire and faux satire.
Real satire takes on the ideals and pretensions of its audiences, puncturing them and showing them up.
Faux satire is a lot more like a group of junior high girls mocking an outsider. “Let’s all show how clever and wonderful we are because we’re not like her!”
It’s self-congratulation and (worse) flattery of the audience as commentary and comedy. I think I’ve handled possibly an hour altogether, in several attempts, of Colbert before having to change the channel in disgust.
I assume the author of this essay is correct about the intellectual effort needed to maintain this pose over such a long period.
Now what could have been REALLY funny would be if Colbert had played two characters: one liberal and the other conservative, on alternate nights. Which could have been true satire.
But that would have defeated the primary charm of the show for its audience, self-congratulation.
His thing is playing a straw-man fool ..a right wing piñata for cheap and easy low brow entertainment for the left.
Archie Bunker was better and the classic example that had legs...but that was because it become boorish unless you start being honest in how you write for your straw man and then he quits being your straw man
but either way its still a one trick bit that I don't see how it translate to a talk show.
Really if your ego need your straw-man as your primary entertainment ever night its the intellectual equivalent of marriage to your blow up love doll
Not that the left cares our opinion but Jon Stewart would of been a better tool for them..
how many times can you say you don’t read or even like books? It mostly marks the deep ruts of liberal arrogance in their own mental superiority.
Where do they even get their prejudiced stereotypes?? Put a right wing political tome up against a liberal one and only one will become a best seller — not the lefty.
Holy crap. He was no better than the steppin fetchit crude stereotypes of blacks in early years of film. The only people stupid enough to enjoy him were insensitive mocking liberals who thought his stereotypes were actually funny. Comedy Central fans, newsflash: blacks did not think all those depictions of them as stupid, lazy, and eating watermelons were very funny either. That’s all Colbert did to fellow humans who happen to have different political orientations than yourselves. You so tolerant people, you.
That’s a lot of praise for some clown who got rich satirizing Bill O’Reilly. Not exactly a hard target to spoof. Doesn’t take much to impress lefties.
The article is somewhat misleading. The author gives the impression that this feeling is widespread among liberals but then gives only ONE example.