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[jd]

I, too, love Stewart / Colbert.. K. Babcock has a good point, there, re: FBS

On 8/11/06, Ghetta Life <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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