Stephen Colbert
Hardcover | Pages: 230 pages Rating: 3.91 | 76800 Users | 3471 Reviews
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| Original Title: | I Am America (And So Can You!) |
| ISBN: | 0446580503 (ISBN13: 9780446580502) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.makemeamerica.com/ |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Humor (2008), Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) |
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Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast. Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong. I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long. Please buy this book before you leave the store. About the Author Stephen Colbert is America. Description from book jacketMention Regarding Books I Am America (And So Can You!)
| Title | : | I Am America (And So Can You!) |
| Author | : | Stephen Colbert |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 230 pages |
| Published | : | October 9th 2007 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Humor. Comedy. Politics. Audiobook. Writing. Essays. Biography |
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Really really funny. I listened to this while driving...don't recommend that. It made me laugh too many times, which could have endangered those driving near me. Glad I survived I Am America. The audio book is essentially one long standup/sketch routine. Colbert has done a fine service for America creating the Colbert persona--what's so disturbing is how it is only a slight exaggeration of the right wing Conservatives of America, the Rush Limbaughs, Glenn Becks and Ann Coulters of the world. HeIt's always an experiment when a comedian with no literary history writes (or collaborates to write) a book. Everyone knows that the 80/20 rule even applies to humor: 20% is the joke and 80% is the timing or delivery. With someone like Stephen Colbert - who I have endless respect for after delivering his famous White House Correspondents Dinner speech, which is wisely reprinted in this book - whose humor is predicated on physical, visual humor, it can be quite precarious treading into the waters
Because conservative and intolerant characters are full of potential for parody, nothing lies closer than to caricature them by showing their mentalities in exaggerated situations. There is so much potential with all kinds of racists, bigots and simple dump people of all ages, genders, income classes and social backgrounds. For instance an old grandma, young stupid politicians, an LGBT person hating himself because of conditioning, kids shaped to sick mentalities (probably better as a cartoon
Satire pre-Obama style. Wink wink, nudge nudge, and tongue firmly planted in cheek. If you want a snapshot of exactly what the Colbert Report was you can't do any better. It reminded me of the faux-Ron Burgundy biography I read in that it was funny, but it wasn't quite enough to sustain a whole book. I've got the next one from the library as well from the middle of the Obama years, I'll be curious to see how that one is.
Most Americans are familiar with Stephen Colbert and his viciously partisan antics. He makes Ann Coulter, that hateful, Republican attack-hermaphrodite, look like a kindly grandmother. More recently, this lifelong right-winger attempted to subvert and sabotage both the democratic process and the Democratic Party by running as a Democrat for president in the state of South Carolina. Colbert has proven himself, time and again, to be a self-satisfied stooge less concerned with reality than with his
This book is funny. Just by reading the title and the back cover (which incidentally only had about 15 words on it) I knew that this book would be funny. And it is, but it's not much else. The character that Colbert plays on his show (intensely-conservative-right-wing-republican) is not actually him. It's almost like this alter ego he has created. In real life, Colbert is a left-wing-liberal. But on his show, he's completely the opposite. So being a regular watcher of his show, and knowing what
The audiobook is so much fun.
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