I Am America (And So Can You!) (edit title)

• Rated 2 stars

“Dint like it.
Colbert is awesome on the Colbert Report but the book comes appallingly short of expectations when compared to its more hilarious and well written predecessor by Jon Stewart : America, A citizen's guide to democracy.

The blowhorn attitude comes across as funny on TV but the biting satire fails to enchant. On the other hand, I highly recommend Jon Stewart's book as the latter kept me laughing till the last page. If you need a serious stomach ache from overexposure to happiness, then Stewart's America is the one for you... not Colbert's I am America”

• Rated 4 stars

“Very funny if you're a fan of Colbert Nation. Not sure how it would go over if you don't watch.”

• Rated 2 stars

“A drag. Love the Report, hated this book. Slogged the whole way through it and didn't even chuckle.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Classic Colbert, if you like his show, you'll love his book”

• Rated 5 stars

“this book is so funny but it has it seruis note wich are somtimes contriversal depending on you view but i would still recomend it for people lookign for a good laugh or who are just a fan of the colbert report/stephen colbert”

• Rated 5 stars

“Hilarious. This book is full of novelties that just make the book even funnier! My favorite was the Window sticker that indicates how many copies of the book reside within your home so that fire-fighters will know to save them in an emergency. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“I'm addicted to Stephen Colbert. He is so outrageous.”

• Rated 5 stars

“LOL! Miami Dolphins: 33,398; Dallas Cowboys: 0”

• Rated 4 stars

“Colbert, previously of The Daily Show, today resides over The Colbert Report, a near-daily TV extravaganza in which he plays an American right-wing TV pundit, thrashing everything liberal in his path. While the show deals with reality, its contents are rarely as such. For a lot of outsiders - i.e. non-Americans* - the contents of his show often seem exotic, making the humor quite evident. To a lot of Americans, I know this is not the case. As the syndicated right-wing rhetoric is often reminiscent of Hitler's charms, Colbert evolves his humor on that and hence, his show is ripe with comments like:

"Once upon a time, racism was a terrible problem in this country."

"If there's a bigger contributor to left-wing elitist brainwashing than colleges and universities, I'd like to see it. There's an old saying, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." Which means a _lot_ of knowledge must be a _really_ dangerous thing. And it is. Look no further than the example of Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber. He skipped sixth grade, got a Bachelor's from Harvard followed by a Master's and a Ph.D., and then embarked on a distinguished academic career of blowing people up. Most Ph.D. biographies have similar endings."

So, the book is much of the same, also with annotated margin comments! Chapter names vary from The Family, Religion, Sex & Dating, Homosexuals to Class War, The Media, Immigrants and Science, which are just as confrontational, prejudiced, narcissistic and funny as you'd expect.

Reading this book is quite like watching his show. Or watching Bill Hicks do his routine about how the American government fabricated the story on Oswald killing JFK. It's reality gift-wrapped, although Hicks wasn't right-winged, erhm.

All in all, a very funny read that aggravated me on more than one occasion, enlightened me on several and made me think of another Colbert quote:

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."

* This isn't applicable to countries where one person owns all media. Yes, you, Italy, and...Rupert Murdoch!”