A sit-down with Stephen Colbert

Pretty interested, jumbo-sized sit-down interview with Stephen Colbert about his start back in Chicago's Second City, his Strangers with Candy days, the turn of the Daily Show from decent ha-ha non-sensical show to actual legitimate theater, all the way up to the enormous popularity of the Colbert Report these days.

In the third part of the interview, he talks about how news stories aren't really the news anymore. Instead, the figures reporting the news (Aaron Brown, O'Reilly, Anderson Cooper, Hannity, etc.) have become the actual news itself. People tune in not for the actual news, but for these large figures and their opinions (i.e. "spin") on the news.

It's also why, I think, that since the Colbert Report has taken this form, it has surpassed the Daily Show in its relevance and hilarity.

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