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I love Stephen Colbert. He gives me hope for the country, and by being Catholic he gives me hope that maybe there is room for me in the Church after all But I can see that he would be very hard to take for a political conservative.
 
Not exactly. His shtick was pretending to be a stereotypical hard-right conservative as a means to make fun of questionable conservative thought.
 
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I just remember on election night, how he was all puffed up and making mocking comments towards republicans and all ready to give the horse laugh at half the country.

The rest is history.
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I missed Election Night because I was on a plane to Portugal at the time, but the replays of all the TV personalities are just priceless. I thought some of them were going to cry. You would think we just elected Adolf Hitler instead of a standard rich egotist from New York City.
 
I enjoy him too.

When he chats about Catholicism, he tends to be positive. Like recently he asked Donnie Wahlberg what he was going to do for Lent.
 
If he needs a replacement for the night I’d bring in Steve Schmidt or Joe Scarborough.
 
I didn’t know that but since you mentioned it I can see it. In terms of entertainment value he’s a great improvement over the source of his inspiration.
 
Carson was, and always will be, the King of Late Night. He had an ability that seems to have disappeared from television (or all entertainment, for that matter) - he could be hysterically funny without being crass or cruel. He was the master of the double entendre…the one-liner followed by that look in his eye. You knew exactly what he was referring to without him being just gross. He was proud to call Nebraska his home and was very generous to his hometown of Norfolk and the University of Nebraska, his alma mater. Those of us here in “flyover country” appreciate someone who stays true to their roots like Johnny did.

Like others here, I have never thought David Letterman was funny. Period. But then again, I never “got” “Friends”. Or “Cheers”. Just not my cup of tea.

These days, late night television is nothing but more political ranting and raving, not a refuge from it. (And yes, I know that Carson would frequently skewer politicians…but he happily went after both parties and not just one as seems to be the case today.)
 
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Whereas a Catholic from say the times before the First World War would indeed be Catholic first and something else second, i.e., “I’m a Catholic from Shreveport who is the town’s baker”, “I’m a Catholic from Montreal who is mother of three children”, “I’m a Catholic from Lyons, France”, “I’m a Catholic from the Midwest”, since the last 100 years or so we have seen the phenomenon of people identifying as “Catholic second” (or even third, fourth, ‘qualified’ etc).
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Who in the world ever said anything like this? I know you are just citing “for instances”, but people don’t usually identify themselves in this fashion, and I have to wonder if they ever did.
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No, Catholics never did, nor had to. Back in the day people could pretty much figure out who was Catholic and who wasn’t. Catholics were the ones who would silently make the sign of the cross throughout the day.

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They are “Raised Catholic” to me. That’s not the same thing as “Practicing Catholic”.
I know this because I spent a lot of time being a “Raised Catholic” or a “Semi-Practicing Catholic” before reverting back to “Actual, Practicing, Serious Minded Catholic.”
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Based on his public comments, I’m pretty confident that Jimmy Kimmel is a practicing Catholic (though one, like many, who doesn’t agree with all the Church’s teachings).

Unfortunately, many Catholics today (both on the liberal side AND conservative side) don’t fully agree with all the Church’s teachings.
 
And you can add Stephen Colbert as a practicing Catholic too. One who was baptized a Catholic, became an atheist and then returned to the Church.


And here’s the full Stephen Colbert interview with Fr. Jim Martin, S.J.

 
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I totally agree on all three greats that you mention. They don’t make 'em like that anymore.
 
No @meltzerboy2, we will never see comedians like that again - the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, George Burns, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ernie Kovacs. The turn of last century many great comedians were born here in the U. S. or immigrated here.
 
😏 Stephen Colbert is very clever, very sure of himself. I would like to see that returning to the Catholic Church had humbled
him to some degree - I am still waiting.

Yikes, after watching the above 2nd interview with Mr. Colbert, he definitely seems to be
missing something. I am sure he is making lots of money with his show, sadly, he seems to be losing something in the process.

Who is Fr. Jim Martin?
 
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When I was a child, my parents watched Merv Griffin. I don’t remember the show that well.

My mom used to watch The Mike Douglas show. That, I think was on in the afternoon, after Edge of Night, I believe.
 
Seems I have seen him referenced a few times here at CAF.
I can’t remember if it was positive or negative though.
 
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