A review by mrsfligs
I Am America by Jay Katsir, Paul Dinello, Laura Krafft, Eric Drydale, Richard Dahm, Peter Gwinn, Stephen Colbert, Glenn Eichler, Tom Purcell, Frank Lesser, Allison Silverman, Rob Dubbin, Peter Grosz, Michael Brumm

4.0

If you’re not familiar with the character that Stephen Colbert plays on his Comedy Central show (that of a “well-intentioned, poorly informed high-status idiot”and a “self-important right-wing commentator” … in other words, a parody of folks like Bill O’Reilly), then this book is going to confuse the heck out of you. If you’re “in” on the joke, then I think you’ll find this book hilarious … though I really do wish I’d listened to it on audio instead of the print version. I kept imagining people who actually believe the right-wing stuff that Colbert is skewering picking up this book and thinking “Yeah! All right! This guy knows what he is saying.” (The book itself is an extension of the Colbert character’s political and social beliefs from the show.) I think Colbert is fearless in his commitment to his character, especially when I suspect his own personal views are likely very far from his Doppelganger. One part that is worth of the price of admission is the transcript of Colbert’s 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner speech, where he mocked George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans right to their faces with a brilliant satirical speech. How gutsy and fearless is that? If you’re a Colbert fan, I suspect you’ve read this already. If not, what’s stopping you?