@Richard:

South Park is most of the time indeed funny and clever (although very crude) â€" just think of the episode on scientology â€", yet sometimes it's just senseless and crude, like the episode with yourself in it. I also disagree with the ending of many episodes, in which Kyle explains to the viewers what they should have "learned".

Colbert is normally funny, especially his book. But his interviews could be much better if it wasn't him talking all the time but mainly his guests. This time it sucked. He is an atheist himself, so why is he so rude to the only atheist lobbyist of the country, instead of being just witty? As if we would be the big oil lobby or something like that.

But true: Sometimes things that are supposedly on our side don't really help, quite to the contrary.