Anyone else think Stephen Colbert isn't funny?

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Earlier I listened to another episode of Stephen Colbert in which he interviews Dinesh D’Souza. My first experience with Colbert was when he made fun of the Pope and got laughs out of misrepresenting what Catholics teach (he is a “progressive” Catholic, so he says).

Then, agree or disagree with D’Souza aside, you never get to hear his position. Colbert interrupts him constantly, incorrectly rephrases what D’Souza was saying, and asks Dinesh to defend the erroneous caricature.

So it seems to me that Colbert’s hallmark is misrepresenting others’ positions, and then making fun of that position in a “humorously” worded way. To me, it seems like he is one of the following:

  1. *]He likes to use comedy to disguise his inability to discredit institutions that he goes ahead and belittles.
    *]He says what he thinks will get laughs, whether or not the joke makes any sense.
    *]Or he’s dumb as a box of rocks.
    Anyone watch him regularly that can affirm or deny that sentiment?
 
I used to watch him all the time when I was in college, and thought he was the greatest. However, since then he’s just gotten extremely annoying to me. I watched some of his episodes on Hulu a couple weeks ago, and was suprised when during a “The Word” segment about I think religion or something (can’t remember) he actually started quoting the Nicean Creed. I didn’t know he claimed to be Catholic, or progressive Catholic or whatnot. But I still don’t enjoy him as much as I used to. I like Jon Stewart better, or did until I watched one of his episodes about the same time and he misrepresented the Catholic faith over the whole Anglican/Catholic married clergy thing. But not completely surprising to me.
But I totally agree with you, on Colbert it’s frustrating as a viewer to not get to hear what his guest has to say, I imagine it’s more frustrating for them, but any press is good press for some of his guests, right? I don’t think it’s because he’s dumb though. I think it’s just his “trademark” to act that way.
 
He isn’t funny. Most of my own jokes and kidding around during the week covers most of his material beforehand. It’s a sad commentary on the times. When I hear his comments, its like he’s regurgitating what all my friends have already come up with regarding current events.
 
I always thought his segments on Jon Stewart were great. Since his new show started, I’ve only watched a few. I find it pretty annoying, not sure why. I did , however, hear a radio interview he did a year or so ago and found his story compelling. He said on the show that he is Catholic, and in fact teaches catechism classes and has for years. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but I remember getting the impression that he’s a fairly traditional Catholic. Could be wrong. I had always understood, or at least thought I did, that he is politically progressive and the show is a parady. Now, I’m not so sure. He is apparently quite popular with conservatives.
 
His shtick is being a ‘conservative’ talk show host. That’s a part he plays. Sometimes he is funny and sometimes he really isn’t. One thing about him, though, that I really don’t like is his interrupting his guests. Sometimes he never lets them say anything at all. I realize that’s supposed to be part of his role but still, I think it’s self-defeating.

He’s Catholic and there’s a video on YouTube somewhere of him singing “The King of Glory” which is really pretty funny. It was posted here on CAF some time back.
 
I’m pretty conservative, and I find him annoying. I don’t quite get the “role” thing. His role is to interrupt people, misrepresent what the say in a sarcastic way, and try to get the person to defend the fallacious position? Is he mocking the interviewers on network news or something? It doesn’t come across that way. No matter how you slice it, “not funny” results. 🤷
 
I’m personally a fan of Colbert, because he has the same weird sense of humor that I do (his “Spider-Pope” bit managed to be pretty funny without being disrespectful at all, just goofy). But he does have the sort of sense of humor that you either get or don’t get, and there’s really no in between (sort of like The Office in that regard).
 
I don’t regularly watch the show, because I barely watch any TV period. But I think he does infotainment better than anyone else out there (No thanks, Smarmy Jon Stewart). Especially the first part of the show where he does the word of the day segment. I usually don’t stick around for the interviews.

Even more than his persona on camera, I really dig the real Steven Colbert. I’ve seen and read a few interviews he’s given. He’s intelligent, well-spoken, a family man - having one of his own and coming from a family of 11, and a catechist (yey!). As for his politics, he has come out as a liberal, but he does have fans from all across the political spectrum.
 
I’ve always found him hilarious. I think his interrupting guests is funny most of the time, I’ve never really got annoyed at it.
 
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