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I lost count of the number of times his impromptu questions left guests utterly speechless. You could see them reeling, as they tried to control their laughter (or in some cases, embarrassment/anger).

I only saw a guest get the better of him a handful of times in all the years that show ran.

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His personality descriptors were pretty funny, too- although many were written by his staff. One of my faves:

"Freshman Kentucky senator (and home-perm cautionary tale) Rand Paul..."

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Colbert, the person

It couldn't possibly be because he wasn't funny, could it? I don't know about the rest of you, but maybe you're just into low brow humor. It's like watching SNL, after the first several shows, it's obvious they've found an audience that will laugh at anything.

I personally think he overdid the stupid conservative schtick.

Comedy is subjective. I guess if you're looking for something brilliant in your humor, you don't find comedy in general very entertaining.

Great satire should have some degree of brilliance to it, otherwise it is just hateful.

I don't see much satirical brilliance today.

It is easy to overdo the conservative shtick. I'm sure the writers were happy with the GOP and Fox News, because it was like shooting fish in a barrel. It's comic gold.

As I said, I wouldn't expect you to find it funny. But it was. In fact, the show got better over time.

This keeps getting better and better.

It's like he's writing down things AM jocks say and just repeating it.

'Rated so low', that sounds about right, say that. 'Low brow', OK, yeah, it makes them sound like the dim ones.

Whatever. I find it low brow, juvenile, and simple. I don't think he's funny, nor do I find him a great satirist. There is some low brow humor I like, if you missed the Leslie Nielson reference, but Colbert got stale to me in a hurry. Think about Sam Kinison, how long do you have to watch him before you're tired of his schtick. Robin Williams would sometimes go so far off the rails that he was no longer funny. Dennis Miller can obscure reference people to death (which is why his TV shows fail).

BTW, the morning radio guy I listen to does a local show, that deals with mostly local news. I don't think I've ever heard him even mention Colbert, as the show is tailored to the area I live in.

Fair enough, but just curious...where did you come up with that nonsense that he was 'rated so low' and were confident enough in that knowledge to repeat it as fact?

Most of the time when you post, you have these odd conclusions that aren't rooted in fact, that almost always happen to be the same odd conclusions not rooted in fact that are coming from the sort of talking heads that Colbert lampooned. That's why I asked.

Most of the time when you post, you have these odd conclusions aren't rooted in fact.

BTW, where is your data on your conclusions?

I watch and read multiple media sources, from different points of view. You've always struck me as one who listens only to the liberal side. I'm quite sure I heard or read that about Colbert's ratings, but I don't remember from where. I find most of the late night 'comics' rather dull, as they all repeat the same stuff. I prefer to watch documentaries or other shows. I find there is nothing to be learned from the late night guys other than snarkiness from a single point of view. It's almost as if they share a brain, meaning their writers.

I'm in the fiscal conservative/anti-federalist point of view. I pretty much think the federal government should leave us the hell alone. They should collect low taxes, run the military, deal with interstate commerce, and that's about it. The rest should be up to the states, as that is what makes this country great. We are a union of 50 vastly different states, and each should be left alone to handle their own citizens as the citizens want. Therefore, I find Colbert's view of a conservative as being a blind follower of an overreaching, strong, single viewpoint type government as tedious as the blind followers of an overreaching, strong, single viewpoint type government from both the liberal and conservative constituencies in real life.

Taxed to death, regulated to death, and monitored to death is what is killing our country right now. Both the republicrats and democans are doing it. I just don't find it funny.