I had absolutely no clue what to expect from this show. Comedy central has a way of releasing show's that look just splendid & then disappointing me.But the Colbert Report is a cracking good laugh, just absurd & definitely worth my motherfucking time.It's a parody of show's like the O'Reilly Factor. It has a host (Daily Show veteran Stephen Colbert) whose persona is very self important & self centered. His name is on everything, all over the set and the desk is shaped like a giant C (stand's for C.unt Colbert, he remind's us!)The show primarily consist of Stephen (The C.unt) Colbert, in his daily show persona, sitting at a desk and giving his opinions on thing's. It's all done in the spirit of satire, parodying popular journalism and the tendency of people who despite having no expertise at all; never the less get a lot of camera time (not unlike Stephen C.unt Colbert), despite the fact that their opinion's are basically worthless (not unlike C.unt Colbert).All in all the show is very schitt and very gay. I think Stephen Colbert is an incredible investment for Comedy Central.

Stephen Colbert was a correspondent/commentator in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In 2005, he started his own half hour show as his alter ego Stephen Colbert, the conservative pundit. It ends after 9 years as Colbert is set to take over from David Letterman in his late night talk show slot. This may be sacrilegious but I like The Colbert Report more than The Daily Show. Don't get wrong. Jon Stewart is great but he's not doing something original. He's not even the original host of The Daily Show and The Daily Show isn't even the first fake news show. Colbert is doing a different personality to do serious news. It's like some of the SNL Weekend Update except Colbert is dead-on. He nails the conservative pundit down to the T. He's so good that some people don't even understand that it's an act. It's also a product of its times. This show is something special.

This spin from the Daily Show actually originally had another aim- Stephen Colbert wanted to imitate a guy on FOX NEWS known for the "No Spin" Zone. Unfortunatey the idea failed for some basic reasons.(1) Colbert is obviously a Democrat which shows quite quickly when you watch about 1 or 2 of these shows.(2) The "No Spin Zone" will attack Democrats & Republicans who do stupid things. Colbert is strictly hands off the Democrats.(3) The format got worn out very quickly when the Democrats took power, so the humor no longer takes chances or has a edge like when Bush & the Republicans had power.The word got out quickly as Comedy Central moved this & the Daily show to a less attractive time slot as soon as O'Bama took power. The gig is up, and that is THE WORD on Colbert.

The thing that makes this show so great is that it's really a combination of many former Comedy Central Shows. In addition to all of the shows which occupied the 11:30 pm Eastern time spot (including "Daily Show" episodes from the previous night), we must remember shows like "Crossballs" (formidable opponent), "Primetime Glick" (having well-intentioned, poorly informed host), and Mr. Subliminal, (the word of the day.) I liked Glick and Mr. Subliminal, and I liked the premise of Crossballs, although there was something missing from each. I think that the missing element was...truthiness. Wait a second, IMDb! Are you saying that you don't consider "truthiness" to be a word? That's it, IMDb, you're dead to me! Now, let's see, the clipboard is full so I need to take someone off. How about Paul Tsongas? Tsongas, it's your lucky day. If you were still alive, you'd no longer be dead to me.My favorite part is his running gags. For example, "Better Know a district" only has 434 parts because California's 50th "never existed to him." I think it happened when Randy "Duke" Cunningham had to resign in disgrace. He's doing satire, and yet he can keeps his story straight. The personalities that he mocks can't even do that! He's doing a better job at satirizing them than they are at being themselves. Also, does anyone remember the "Bewitched" movie? I myself liked it, I mean how can you not like a movie that stars both members of "The Ambiguously Gay Duo?" Stephen Colbert's character was explaining to Will Ferrell how much "Katmandu" tanked, in an effort to convince him into dropping his movie aspirations for a TV show. Well, "Bewitched" failed to crack $100 Million at the box office, and even won a Golden Raspberry Award. "The Colbert Report," and "The Office" (Can you honestly say that you recognize any of Steve Carell's co-stars? Plus, it's even a remake!!!) are to the "Bewitched" movie what the "Bewitched" TV show inside the movie was to the "Katmandu" movie inside the movie. Speaking of which, can anyone name another movie which had 2 of its actors get their own shows beginning the next fall? "How I met your Mother" and "Numbers" both featured offspring from "Harold and Kumar go to White Castle," but neither actor can quite be considered to have the lead. Anyway, instead of having a no-name actress as his leading co-star, Colbert just had words. And they still upstage him! Now, you might be wondering how Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman did as a team. Remember that Raspberry award? They won it for worst on screen COMBINATION. And that's your word of the day.