“I don’t like books, they’re all fact, no heart” -Stephen Colbert. As ironic as this quote may seem it is another example of Stephen Colbert’s comedic style, thick satire. “I Am America (And So Can You!)” is another fantastic presentation of Colbert’s conservative capitalist character already shown on the Colbert Report. The book addresses issues that Americans face as adults and current issues facing the nation, plus a note to the future. All these issues are taken on with humor and satire so as to make big issues less intimidating and almost menial. I have to say I struggle to find something that I don’t like in this hilarious book. Which is why I am excited to now present a synopsis of the book.
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With that in mind I thought that a book report on this book would be pretty easy, simple even. I was wrong. Satire is a very complicated form of humor, the words a satirist say may be funny but it isn’t because they mean it. Satire is funny because it points out what’s wrong with society by making us all seem ridiculous. This book is truly fantastic; it jabs at everything, at least that I am personally aware of, that is wrong with this usually great country. Colbert makes homophobia seem single-minded, sexists look like Neanderthals, censorship childish, and Racists as outdated and unwanted as the United States’ Postal Service. As I stated earlier satire is a complicated form of comedy, as an example the Stephen Colbert you have likely seen today on the Colbert Report is not actually what the man is like off camera. Though I know from news interviews of Colbert being out of character that he is Catholic, from the South, but is not conservative, obviously. (BIO, n.d) Colbert’s humor is viewed as liberal satire, meaning it makes conservatives look like uninformed idiots. Colbert is also known to rip on major slam talk show hosts like Bill O’Reilly, which make sense because Colbert created his character to be just as obnoxious as Bill O’Reilly but on the other side of the party spectrum. The point of saying all this is I view this book as just a one long Colbert Report script that is hilarious as usual and very hard-hitting on
Presenting this like parody of all …show more content…
With that in mind I thought that a book report on this book would be pretty easy, simple even. I was wrong. Satire is a very complicated form of humor, the words a satirist say may be funny but it isn’t because they mean it. Satire is funny because it points out what’s wrong with society by making us all seem ridiculous. This book is truly fantastic; it jabs at everything, at least that I am personally aware of, that is wrong with this usually great country. Colbert makes homophobia seem single-minded, sexists look like Neanderthals, censorship childish, and Racists as outdated and unwanted as the United States’ Postal Service. As I stated earlier satire is a complicated form of comedy, as an example the Stephen Colbert you have likely seen today on the Colbert Report is not actually what the man is like off camera. Though I know from news interviews of Colbert being out of character that he is Catholic, from the South, but is not conservative, obviously. (BIO, n.d) Colbert’s humor is viewed as liberal satire, meaning it makes conservatives look like uninformed idiots. Colbert is also known to rip on major slam talk show hosts like Bill O’Reilly, which make sense because Colbert created his character to be just as obnoxious as Bill O’Reilly but on the other side of the party spectrum. The point of saying all this is I view this book as just a one long Colbert Report script that is hilarious as usual and very hard-hitting on