On 8/22/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
My impression is that Colbert is actually pro-Wikipedia.
...which makes his stuff weirdly multilayered. He's (apparently) pro- Wikipedia, and he expresses this (and gets humor for his show) by giving it some good-natured ribbing... which, in turn, he accomplishes by having his persona of an ignorant idiot spouting conservative dogma give empty-headed straw-man "praise" of it.
He'll make mincemeat out of anyone who doesn't grasp his kind of humour.
Actually, what he does is "humor"... what Monty Python does is "humour".