Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

[Ghetta Life]

I love Stewart & Colbert.  They are not funny-because-it's-stupid.  They are 
"funny because it's absurd, yet true."  They take reality and push it to its 
logical extremes forcing people to face up to the absurdity of the powers 
that be as well as the mundane everyday.

Ghetta

>From: "K. Michael Babcock" <aesova at gmail.com>
>
>but I think that Colbert works in a way other FBS things don't in that it 
>has much more than just the FBS thing going for it, it is a multi-layered 
>satirical approach that manages to take issues that are 
>sad-and-or-scary-because-they-are-true and funny-because-it's-stupid 
>aspects of them, making  the awful seem somewhat more bearable. I see a 
>great deal more there than the "old lady slipping on ice" that Geraldo 
>Rivera seems to think is the  modus operandi of Colbert/Stewart.
>
>On 8/11/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Because if funny-because-it's-stupid is dead, Stephen Colbert wouldn't
>>get quite the same audience!

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