WHAT IRONY?:

Stephen Colbert, 'arch conservative': The comic actor-writer's character is a man of the right, and the comic-actor loves playing him. (Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, June 1, 2009, LA Times)

To use a word coined by Stephen Colbert, the writer and actor, there's a certain "truthiness" about Stephen Colbert, the character and host of Comedy Central's " The Colbert Report." Indeed, Colbert the character, a right-wing blowhard on a one-man mission to reeducate the ignorant, is convincing enough that a recent Ohio State University study found that a majority of conservatives polled believed Colbert the man was one of them.

The irony couldn't please him more.

Humor allows people to reveal their true selves.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 2, 2009 4:37 PM