I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007)
I Am America (And So Can You!) is a 2007 politics and government book written by Stephen Colbert.
Stephen Colbert wrote this as his on-air character: the blustering, self-certain pundit of The Colbert Report, now given room to hold forth on every subject his nightly show cannot fit. Family, religion, science, sex, sports, and the elderly all come in for the same mock-conservative broadsides, delivered with total confidence and zero doubt. The gag is sustained persona satire, a right-wing windbag so sure of himself that the absurdity does the arguing. Margin notes, quizzes, and interruptions keep the format restless. Readers who enjoy the show's straight-faced ridicule of cable-news bloviating will recognize the voice on every page, dialed past eleven.
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What is I Am America (And So Can You!) about?
Stephen Colbert wrote this as his on-air character: the blustering, self-certain pundit of The Colbert Report, now given room to hold forth on every subject his nightly show cannot fit. Family, religion, science, sex, sports, and the elderly all come in for the same mock-conservative broadsides, delivered with total confidence and zero doubt. The gag is sustained persona satire, a right-wing windbag so sure of himself that the absurdity does the arguing. Margin notes, quizzes, and interruptions keep the format restless. Readers who enjoy the show's straight-faced ridicule of cable-news bloviating will recognize the voice on every page, dialed past eleven.
When was I Am America (And So Can You!) published?
I Am America (And So Can You!) was published in 2007.
Who made I Am America (And So Can You!)?
I Am America (And So Can You!) was written by Stephen Colbert.
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The obvious next stop is The Colbert Report itself, the nightly source of this same blowhard persona. For satire that shares the format's appetite for skewering news and politics, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver builds long, researched takedowns from the same desk-bound anchor pose, and The Daily Show supplies the correspondent-driven mockery Stephen Colbert graduated from.
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Colbert wrote this entire book in the blowhard pundit voice that anchored his Comedy Central desk, so the obvious next stop is the shows built on the same joke: Stewart's Daily Show, Colbert's own Report, and Oliver's Last Week Tonight all play newsreader with a wink. Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine works the same nerve as a documentary, sending up the gun-culture bravado this book's narrator would cheer without irony.
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Colbert's fictional pundit never once doubts himself, and that same unwavering certainty runs through the self-help shelf. Greene's 48 Laws of Power, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Tolle's Power of Now, Cameron's Artist's Way, Meyer's Battlefield of the Mind, and Young's Ultralearning each promise one confident method for fixing your entire life. Reading them back to back makes Colbert's joke land even harder.