Watched this a few days ago and saw it again on youtube.
I’m already a fan but this guy is brilliant in this exchange.
Indeed.
I enjoyed that little encounter on many different levels.
I would have prefered to hear more of her thoughts, and a few less of his.
Seemed to me, who knows Zilch about American politics, that the Honky was more concerned with pushing the envelope of American TV than getting down on the real thang.
Mind ye, they got somewhere interesting before the advertisements.
I dunno.. 
Slan,
D.
Dub: The whole premise of the show is that he has a persona that is self-deluded, flag-wavin’ conservative but professing to be enlightened.
The interviews are basically staged and its clear to the guests that its going to be that way. The book floggers get a chance to promote their product in exchange for his mock-serious interview. Nobody who brings a book on there gets a lot of their ideas across. That’s basically the idea…
What’s brilliant is how he successfully lampoons everybody (including his persona) in the process on many different levels. There is no pretense of serious political discourse.
Well now..
looks like I’m a long way away from beautiful downtown Burbank.
Slan,
D. 
Weeks, did you see his show when O’Reilly was the guest?
That was perfect.
That was a glorious send-up of the myth of blackness. What is this guy’s name, as it doesn’t say on the YT blurb?
djm
Yes, I did. In fact, thinking about Dub’s response brought OReilly to mind as he is likely the model for Stephen Colbert’s “interviews” where a pre-set response is already planned and the author basically tries to shove a point in there somehow, but never gets to. I’m not saying that there is nothing of interest on an OReilly show, but contentious interviews are not a high point of them.
Deej, it’s the Colbert Report on several times an evening on Comedy Central. It airs here at 8:30 and 11:30 p.m., not sure about where you are. He’s Stephen Colbert, and he got his start doing fake news reports on the Daily Show with John Stewart, where he was also a writer, I believe. He got his own show, which I prefer, and airs right after the Daily Show.
I might have also explained to Dub that its an ongoing gag on his part that he “doesn’t see color” and doesn’t consider himself white because he’s “past that.” So he was piggybacking on the interview, with nearly the perfect guest to continue the theme.
He’s had many, many guests of different political persuasions, including OReilly and that woman host (I have forgotten her name suddenly) from Democracy Now!, who was a very good sport about it…
And at another time Colbert was O’Reilly’s guest.
Worlds collide as The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert is interviewed by Bill O’Reilly on the FOX host’s O’Reilly Factor.
Nope. All Ghandi.
djm
I missed the O’Reilly-Colbert bits. But ALL clowns scare me. (Especially those who pretend to play it straight…)
You can’t sleep. Clowns might eat you.
But seriously, you really can’t know what Colbert really thinks, and I think this endears him to many on various places of the political spectrum. You have to be too serious on either side to not find him funny or find him objectionable. Most appreciate his humor. I think he has staying power for that reason. You never really knew where Johnny Carson stood, for example, except some amorphous easy-going moderate stance and I think it helped him over the years. Colbert has been really timely to lampoon the polemic state we are in. I think its a comedic tour-de-force, being a whole 30 minutes, rather than just the topical monologue intro of Letterman or Leno.. Stewart is on the same lines, but more obvious in political orientation.
We’re talking about entertainment, after all. I think that ideologues on the radio who would have your forget that talk radio and talking head shows are entertainment are more scary than mockers like Colbert..
Fox is, in a way, trying to piggyback Colbert with their new 1/2 Hour Hour News show. The pilot bit, on Youtube, isn’t that funny because it’s too obvious, to me, anyway.
I love Colbert (remember, don’t say the “t” at the end of Colbert or Report).
I really like his “Word”. The commentary, next to the phrases printed, are just a riot!
Did you see when he did the “guitar off” and he had Peter Frampton on? Or when he sang with Barry Manilow?
I like the irony of a topic in this forum discussing multi-layered humour.
I sincerely hope the topic doesn’t get deleted.
Is that supposed to be…
Oh never mind.
Unfinished sentences increase multi layered potential.
Unfortunately, yours doesn’t have enough to denote humour.
Yes, and it was amazing. At one point, in the lead-up to the big “Shred-Off” between him and the Decemberists, he said probably the funniest line I’ve heard on that show:
“It’s called a wammy bar–deal with it.”
I am still laughing.