Stephen Colbert ... great satirist? or the greatest satirist?
Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert combined two of my favorite things into one big hilarious thing. One is himself and two is Nebraska bashing. In his segment, Better Know a District, Colbert examined Nebraska's Second District, The Fightin' Second, which boasts such achievements as the tallest building between Minneapolis and Denver, meat in a box and a large telecommunications industry becaue people in Omaha have an accent like they are from nowhere... which is partially true, said Colbert.
Then he interviewed Congressman Lee Terry about hydrogen being the alternative fuel choice of Nazis. I've met Lee Terry. He seemed much more frumpishly Midwestern in this interview than in person.
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Nice post! What I like the most about the Better Know A District segments, is seeing which Members of Congress actually get the joke and/or have a sense of humor. Congressman Terry seems like a man who is very serious about doing his job to represent the people of the "Fighting Second" and to move America to renewable energies, but he also seems to be a man that has a sense of humor. Something I admire in a leader. I think this is well illustrated in his op-ed that ran in the LA Times Monday, August 7, 2006 titled (by the LA Times) “Stephen Colbert for Congress!” We should probably take this in jest and definitely not take any of it out of context. The classic line? "Pelosi wants the Democrats to take over the House this fall, but she's afraid to take on a comedian?"
I wonder if Pelosi will actually go on the show now? Terry (and Colbert?) certainly throw down the gauntlet here... maybe people would like Pelosi more if we knew she had a sense of humor, too...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-terry7aug07,0,6821538.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
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