Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy shit Dan Brown!

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In a message dated 08/11/2006 12:45:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ghetta_outta at hotmail.com writes:

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!


Agreed...scary & funny at the same time because of how stupid they  
are...kind of like our current President...(uh oh, now we're gonna get into a  
political discussion...delete delete delete...)
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