I am America (And so can You!)

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Call Number: 817 I
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Additional writers: Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Allison Silverman.
Includes two sheets of stickers.
Includes index.
My American childhood -- Family -- Old people -- Animals -- Religion -- My American adolescence -- Sports -- Sex & dating -- Homosexuals -- Higher education -- Hollywood -- My American maturity -- Media -- Class war -- Race -- Immigrants -- Science -- Note to the future -- What have we learned? -- How to retire this book -- Appendix: the White House correspondents' dinner.
From the host of television's comedy-punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. This book contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast, his most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form. Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones. You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.--From publisher description.

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I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) by Stephen Colbert submitted by wfzimmerman on December 30, 2007, 3:40pm Cute, but not nearly up to the standard of Al Franken's similar non-book from last year.

Classic Colbert submitted by John J. Madonna on January 7, 2008, 6:15pm I Am America does for books what [b:1303117|The Colbert Report] does for television, perfectly satirizing the genre of political writing.

Colbert's show, in book form submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 21, 2014, 8:50pm Colbert's humor is so brilliant. I couldn't read the book without hearing his voice in my head. (So either it was that good, or I'm mildly schizophrenic now.)

If you've ever watched his show, the book is more of the same (although with fewer (though not none) grizzly bears).

too spot on to enjoy? submitted by camelsamba on July 17, 2018, 11:04pm I know this is satire, and I know it is supposed to be funny to people who realize it is satire, but I didn't find myself laughing as much as I had hoped. I suspect the problem is that I grew up with people who would agree with much of what he says.