I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
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Book Reviews of I Am America (And So Can You!)
Book Review: Hysterical, you'll not be disapointed
Summary: 5 Stars
Stephen Colbert is truly, a national treasure. Certainly, he's great enough to be considered an international treasure, but America isn't going to share him any time soon.
He is the most intelligent man I've never met, equally funny (if not more so) than any late night talk show host including Jon Stewart.
The book is packed with stickers, and bright colors, so you don't feel like you're disobeying him by actually learning anything.
Although I think some of the jokes can be shared by politicos and non-politicos alike, the only way you're really going to be able to enjoy his work is by having kept up with politics for the past five years, at least. So, take that as a warning to anyone who likes Mind of Mencia and decided that since Colbert is on the same channel that they'd get the humor.
So, what are you waiting for? Buy this book now, you won't regret it.
Book Review: You are America and you don't know that Pilgrims are not Puritans?
Summary: 5 Stars
Those lovable, Indian hugging, blunderbust shooting candyasses, with big buckles, never torched a witch. The Pilgrims died out. The Puritans came to America later and morphed into our modern, pie baking, Congregationlists, who are now indistinguishable from other, dying-out, Protestant hymn singers. They will not like having their Bible thumping ancestors outed but I am stuffed with turkey and on a roll.
How can a frog-eating person of French descent be America? We do not eat fussy pastry or horses here. His next book should be --I Am France --and he should get a proofreader who paid attention (around Thanksgiving) in fifth grade. Little Stephen must have been spanking his monkey in the back of the classroom. Great book though. I spanked, I blasted away and I stuffed until I laughed.
This review is by Mary's husband, Goldenrod, who is still living what is left of the American dream.
Book Review: Hilarious and brilliant - bravo.
Summary: 5 Stars
OK - I'm not going to be flip - I'm actually going to review the book:
If you like the Report you will bust a gut with this one. Every passage and section bursts with Colbert's completely brilliant sarcasm. He takes on such topics as religion, homosexuality, the family, sex etc... with the mock conservative viewpoint. Highlight sections abound, such as sections where regular people appear to give their statements. There are stickers, fancy graphics, and lots of great photographs. Bottom line, Colbert is brilliant and hilarious. I bust up laughing out loud on almost every page. This stuff is even funnier read aloud. I had to repeat some of it from memory for my wife and I was laughing so hard I almost couldn't finish - and then she was laughing hard. Unless you're a big fan of Papa O'Reilley (in which case you will be frequently offended) you owe it to yourself to pick this up right away.
Book Review: Pretty Darn Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
~I Am America (And So Can You!)~ is a book I think. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, the comic who stays current on current affairs wrote it. Colbert brings his sarcastic wit and bombastic flare to the book-writing arena. He offers his pedantic thoughts on everything from dating to Hollywood to politics to religion, and all packed in one slim, but nonetheless entertaining volume. Yes, his television persona officially doesn't like books, but why not write one anyway? After all selling books can make you a load of money, right? Overall, it's pretty funny. Plus, he's normal and says Christianity is the in religion and homosexuality is immoral. Anything this heterodox to reality has to be good, right? As we all know reality has a well-known liberal bias. And I got some cool Stephen Colbert Literary Seal of Excellence stickers with my book. Now, I can stick them all over my other books.Book Review: well, I wasn't reading my own book..
Summary: 5 Stars
I haven't written a book. Even if I had a book of my own I would never stoop to the level of promoting it by pretending to review a highly popular book like Stephen Colbert's. And here's my website---yuck!
Stephen Colbert would probably get a kick out of such a shameless display of self-promotion since that is his shtick. This book is hilarious. He is so good at poking neo-conservatives by reconfiguring then regurgitating the blather they spew out every day on Fox and AM radio.
Rush should be apoplectic about this one. Colbert (and his writers) are so good at skewering the pretensions of the neo-cons. I'll never forget the look on George W. Bush's face when Stephen addressed the 2006 White House Correspondent's dinner. This book contains a special bonus; it concludes with Colbert's account of that evening and there is also a copy of his speech. Sweet!