He's back. Stephen Colbert offers up more words of wisdom in his newest tome: America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't
. I listened to this satire as a break halfway through the more serious 13 CD recording of That Used to Be Us by Friedman and Mandelbaum. It was a nice wonky wacky wonky sandwich of thought provoking ideas about current political events. The structure of the humor is somewhat predictable and the jokes are paced at a rate similar to a situation comedy at 2 to 3 per minute. Most jokes are at conservatives expense. The Colbert character appears to be a fun house mirror image of a Sean Hannity and Glen Beck mashup.
The next to last chapter parodying the California lifestyle gave me the most giggles. Feel free to skip the last chapter where an inebriated Stephen reveals his disappointment with the conservative American experiment.
America Again- Stephen Colbert speaks at Google - 10 minutes
America Again - 59 minutes
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