'The former senior news analyst on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, America's No. 1 fake news channel, has his own show now, The Colbert Report, an elaborate parody of Bill O'Reilly's No-Spin Zone.

He calls his show a "no-fact zone" and he plays a blowhard anchor, what he calls a "high status idiot," an unread, grotesque bully who lives on "truthiness," a Colbert word for faith in what you believe to be true rather than what is true. He promises not to tell you the truth "but to feel the truth at you." It runs here on the Comedy Network; the two shows have more viewers in Canada than they do in the States, but Stewart and Colbert are U.S. cult hits.' Did you hear the one about the satirist and the president? Probably not.

Do these two shows really have more viewers in Canada? (Does she mean per capita?) Why?

Transcript of the WHCA speech - www.editorandpublisher.com

Is the Comedy Channel cable? If not, that may be why. Comedy Central is cable. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are two of the biggest shows (if not the two biggest, now) on Comedy Central. So clearly most Comedy Central fans are watching. I wonder if we just don't have much of a cable viewership. Beucase if Comedy Central isn't getting that many viewers, than what channel is?

I certainly watch him every now and then while at home. Lots of funny.

Haha. "That's where the truth lies, right down here in the gut. Do you know you have more nerve endings in your gut than you have in your head? You can look it up. I know some of you are going to say, "I did look it up, and that's not true." That's 'cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, look it up in your gut.

I watch it all the time. I find it hard to believe that it would have more Canadian viewers... but it's not out of the realm since there are no Republicans in Canada.

His bit at the White House dinner was fabulous. John Stewart's show last night was also fabulous... the best show on television by far.