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| I Am America (And So Can You!) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Colbert
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  428 reviews
Sales Rank: 361
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0446580503
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.607
EAN: 9780446580502
ASIN: 0446580503
Publication Date: October 9, 2007
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Product Description
Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.
From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23 hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.
Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.
Always controversial and outspoken, 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.
I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long.
Please buy this book before you leave the store
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 The perfect Christmas gift! April 19, 2007
1284 out of 1433 found this review helpful
I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
A powerhouse. A tour de truth.
I laughed. I cried. I lost 15 pounds!
A must buy!
Ow. September 8, 2007
556 out of 796 found this review helpful
I picked up this book too fast and broke my wrist. There should be a warning label.
Inspirational. Motivational. Educational. Truthitational. October 10, 2007
386 out of 573 found this review helpful
Get a little inspiration! Just when you may be wondering how much longer you can stand living in a country that airs Fox News 24/7, along comes Stephen Colbert's long awaited diatribe. Reading him rail against homosexuals, liberals and the media is a bit like being back in high school and trying to decide who to vote for on the Student Council. You may realize that while one of the guys is a real douche bag, he just has that certain "it" factor that you know will make HIM win and you want to make sure you can say you voted for him. You want to be on his side and speak HIS language. Stephen Colbert's character on the Colbert Report is exactly that kind of guy; except that while you are shaking his hand (or reading the words) you are thinking how insane it is that there are people out there WHO ACTUALLY *DO* THINK LIKE THIS. You draw from the wellspring of his deep insanity, smiling, nodding, thinking "where will I hide my kids when these people organize?" (If you're smart you'll realize that they already have, they're called the Republican party, and you'll be out there campaigning against them.)
Colbert uses this book to flesh out his character in a way that allows us to feel even more intimately linked to his neo-right wing propaganda cause. He begins with an explanation of how he came to be the Man he is today, how he was shaped into the conservative model of greatness that leads the ColbertNation. Be sure that this is nothing BUT the opinion of Stephen Colbert OF the Colbert Report. If you are a fan of the show, you will LOVE the book, as I did, knowing it has no relation to Stephen Colbert the actor who plays the character on the show. If you have no idea what show I am talking about, you'd be best off buying the book and reading it after watching the show on Comedy Central a few times first. Or better yet, and better for Stephen's pocket book, buy the newly released DVD of the "Best of the Colbert Report" available everywhere. IF you read the book and love it without having ever watched the show, God help us.
Colbert is a brilliant satirist October 9, 2007
54 out of 88 found this review helpful
Steve Colbert, perhaps more than any other living comedian, understands the dictum of Mark Twain, America's greatest humorist, who once said (and I'm paraphrasing here) that the way to tell a funny story is to tell it gravely.
Twain also said: "Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." This, too, Colbert understands. Against his dry, droll, grave humor, the idiocy of right-wing demagoguery shatters into dust.
 Best in Bits November 18, 2007
51 out of 69 found this review helpful
My wife and I having a running debate over which show is better: The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. We both like both shows; however, she's a bigger fan of Colbert whereas I think he was funnier on The Daily Show. (How I miss him on "This Week in God.")
That's not to say Colbert isn't still funny. He is. Very funny. But the conceit of his new show leaves him less space to maneuver and that is reflected in his book.
Essentially, I Am America (and So Can You!) reads like a combination of a book-length "Word" segment from his show (complete with margin comments) and the kind of narcissistic, pseudo-biography/position statement produced ad naseum by politician and TV pundits. The key words here being "book-length."
Reading long passages from this book in one sitting becomes quite tedious, as if the entire half-hour of The Colbert Report had been taken up with one long "Word" segment. However, if you take the book a chapter at a time, it's much easier to be caught up in the funny moments. And there are plenty of them here, including a reprint of Colbert's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Don't feel you're doing Stephen disrespect if you take him in chunks. It would be more disrespectful if you gave up on what's here because you got sucked into the vortex of the conceit through which it's written. Stick with it. It's worth the journey.
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