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A mock-style show that pokes fun at politics and mainly the far-right talk shows like Bill O'Reilly, and it works like magic. Colbert is a genius, exposing the hypocracy of the right wing neo-cons by acting like one himself. He hates gays because they are always trying to make him gay by tempting him with their hot bodies, he hates mexicans and illegal aliens but gets all his gardening and housework done by his mexican workers at home, he hates evolution theory because its promoted by a bunch of monkeys, he loves his SUVs, he believes Global Warming is caused by Al Gore's hot air, he supports his president no matter what, wants to invade every other country, Jesus is the one true religion and everyone else is going to hell, he's a big ego-maniac, and absolutely hates bears for they are godless killing machines.
I think it's a lot more fun-natured then the Daily Show, which makes it a perfect watch to help unwind after some of the gloomy revelations on Jon Stewart's show, but the amount of irony and satire in Colbert Report is just brilliant and so well written. The only slight flaw in the show is that when he brings on a neo-con author or think tank, interviews can get a bit awkward, but it's hard to interview a neo-con while 'acting' to be one yourself and also try to throw in a few ironic zingers in there to show the flaws in the guests' way of thinking, and to do that all on-the-fly. When he interviews liberal guests, its a lot more fun, as he just butts heads with them with the cheesiest arguments that neo-cons typically use, and it comes off very well to expose their hypocracy.
Brilliant, very intelligent show. Some of the more simple minded viewers simply won't understand what he's trying to do with his reverse-psychology style of show, but that's ok, since the show is not for them anyways. They can just switch over to Jay Leno and listen to Osama and Michael Jackson jokes and look at misprinted newspaper clippings and laugh silly.
10/10
