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It’s a studies thing. Conservatives are unable to grasp irony or sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert stopped his show. The people he was mocking were holding his character up as someone to aspire to.
What?! I didn't know that
yep, conservatives watched him unironically.
I watched The Colbert Report for years with my mom before realizing that she was just straight up agreeing with the things he was saying.
Colbert's parody of a right wing weirdo was actually fairly tame compared to the actual right wing weirdos of today.
He got out at the right time, there's no way he could say things crazier than what Trump and his minions are saying every day.
you are shitting me, are you serious??? that cant be right
It's apparently the reason he got picked to do the correspondent's dinner in 2006. If they'd known what he was actually going to do, they never would have invited him.
i have to watch that, thanks!
Oh it’s really funny but some of the jokes are just painful now, namely the climate ones.
They thought they had found their new Wally George.
This dude listens to Behind the Bastards