It opened with not just a hilarious routine, but what felt like a summary of the era, in which Colbert introduced the concept of “truthiness.” The nation, he said, was divided between “those who think with their head and those who know with their heart.” So Colbert created not just a show but a massive work of performance art set in the reality-liberated community. The Report debuted just after a Bush adviser speaking to reporter Ron Suskind dismissed, in pre-satirized terms, the “reality-based community.” It started with one big idea: that in American discourse, gut feeling and team affiliation had replaced reason (indeed, had labeled reason itself a kind of contemptible bad faith). It was just the flagship product of a larger performance that extended to the Internet, to public rallies, to political campaigns, and even to space.īy transforming himself into a character, and taking his performance far beyond the thirty minutes of the show, Colbert was engineering a way to satirize a subject - the media and political culture - that had moved almost beyond satire. The show itself was not the sum total of the production that Colbert has put since 2005. The all-star sendoff is a staple of talk-show finales, but this one seemed to say something here about the vast world that Colbert created with the Report.
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