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Or perhaps the stolen microwave (which FoxNews admitted today was truly stolen from their studios). I thought the segment on O'Reilly's show was incredibly boring. But the Colbert stuff was pretty good.
Also, when Colbert brought out O'Reilly's book with the "30% discount" sticker obscuring O'Reilly's face, I almost felt sorry for Bill. But then I remembered what a destructive and hateful sham O'Reilly's "culture warrior" crap is, and generally what a pompous liar he has been. So I enjoyed the laugh. Colbert rules.
To be fair to O'Reilly, he really couldn't win this. When wit meets boarish force, wit wins every time. Also, since Colbert is a comedian, he's free to just make stuff up, even when it's obvious he's lying. Trying to nail Colbert in a serious interview is like trying to nail Borat in a serious (or even semi-serious) interview.
I can't believe I wrote that.
He doesn't always. But he always seems to recover quickly.
(2) the sexual harassment line was the best
Also, since Colbert is a comedian, he's free to just make stuff up,
as if that was making a contrast. Not to pile on, but O'Reilly routinely makes stuff up (my favorite was citing the entirely imaginary "Paris Business Review" to support his demonstrably false argument that the "boycott France" idea he was pushing had cost the French X amount of money.
That's not to say I'm O'Reilly's biggest fan--I duisagree with a lot if not most of his positions, but I find Colbert to be pretty unfunny.
Except if it didn't ring true, it wouldn't be funny. He's lying in the sense that he's a satire, but all good satirusts present a somewhat distorted mirror of the truth. Colbert is a master satirist. He's on Swift's level for certain. Posibly beyond it.
Jon Stewart interviews Bill O'Reilly
Exactly right. Colbert's humor doesn't rely on him making things up. The humor is based on him being an exaggeration of some of the nuttier right-wing "pundits" out there, like O'Reilly. The bite in his humor is that he's actually not exaggerating very much.