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Originally Posted by Gattigap
Agreed. Colbert now has a machine at which to rage for political points.
But the character is about more than that. He can rage about all kinds of nonsense that his narcissistic character cares about (Bears, etc.) and it'll be funny.
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To add to Jack's argument, I think Colbert's much better positioned than Stewart going forward. Stewart's bits were built around the notion that DC was hopeless.
Though generally speaking that has been, will be and is probably eternally true, at the moment, it's probably not going to be a popular form of humor for the sector of his audience that takes itself, and its politics, a lot more seriously than it ought to.
Colbert's more of a clown and he does a brilliant job of satirizing both the left and right in a fashion that keeps both on edge and wondering whether they're more in on or the butt of the joke, but always feeling like they have to smile and play along.
