Stephen Colbert says...

[cmt2779]

I've been reading bits of Stephen Colbert's book I Am America (And So Can You!) lately. I thought I'd share a few of my favorite sections thus far.

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[piezocuttlefish]

For once, aren't you glad we're on a losing team?

[leahfreelancema]

I was going to get this for my husband for Christmas, but I don't think we can wait. The atheist quotes, in particular, are hilarious, esp. considering that Colbert, IRL, is a practicing Catholic!

[cmt2779]

You know, as a whole, the book was just okay. There were a couple of other parts that I thought were as funny as these, but mostly it was just light chuckles.

I think part of the problem is that the persona he's developed for The Colbert Report doesn't translate that well to written work. I've watched enough of his show that I could easily hear that voice in my head while reading, but it was still missing something. The posturing needs a physical presence, I think, and it really loses some of its bite when limited, as it is here, to more general subjects instead of having specific current events to draw from.

That said, I would still recommend it. I'm just not sure it's as great as the TV show and it's certainly not as great as I'd expected it to be.