ALL COMEDY IS CONSERVATIVE:

Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman, Leslie Moonves, ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's "Late Show," and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater. [...]

 It was about whether they could pull off one of the most intriguing experiments in late-night television history; whether Mr. Colbert, who became a leading voice in American political satire by playing a fictional character on his Comedy Central show -- holding forth before a cable congregation of the converted -- could succeed as himself in the big broad tent of network television, whose commercial and corporate imperatives can be homogenizing.

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