Political satirist Stephen Colbert takes on cable-news blowhards in his own show, which centers around his essential rightness about the issues of the day.
I was initially put off by The Colbert Report. It took me awhile to be able to really appreciate what Colbert was doing with it. When this spinoff of The Daily Show arrived, I was fooled like many others because Colbert's way of operating on it is to play the role of a Fox News pundit. And Colbert - who, in real life, is a liberal Democrat - plays the role very, very convincingly. Like a lot of the actual pundits, Colbert defends his beliefs by making attack statements that are so over the top, … more