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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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This debate is silly. Obama may have vision and a conscience, but he still has to govern, a process that has oft been compared to making sausage. He and his administration will fuck up a lot, the republicans will throw up stupid and partisan obstacles, and Nancy Pelosi will still be a wackadoo.
Both Colbert and Stewart will have grist enough for the mill.
