Product Description

Congratulations--just by looking at this webpage, you became 25% more patriotic.

From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23¿ hours of your day. I Am America (And So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into his nightly broadcast.

Dictated directly into a microcassette recorder over a three-day weekend, this book contains Stephen's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, Religion, Sex, Sports, and many more topics, conveniently arranged in chapter form.

Always controversial and outspoken, Stephen addresses why Hollywood is destroying America by inches, why evolution is a fraud, and why the elderly should be harnessed to millstones.

You may not agree with everything Stephen says, but at the very least, you'll understand that your differing opinion is wrong.

I Am America (And So Can You!) showcases Stephen Colbert at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long.

Please buy this book before you leave the store

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-09
• Released on: 2007-10-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that's destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our country—whether they be terrorists, environmentalists, or Kashi brand breakfast cereals. His various targets include nature (I've never trusted the sea. What's it hiding under there?), the Hollywood Blacklist (I would have named enough names to fill the Moscow phone book), and atheists (Imagine going through life completely duped into thinking that there's no invisible, omniscient higher power guiding every action on Earth. It's just so arbitrary!). Colbert also provides helpful illustrations and charts (Things That Are Trying to Turn Me Gay) [and] a complete transcript of his infamous speech at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner [...] all of which add up to a book that is sure to be a bestseller and match the success of Colbert's former Daily Show boss Jon Stewart's America (The Book). (Oct.)
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From AudioFile
Colbert bloviates this all-points spoof, but the full cast includes the oldest man in the world, who flatlines after reminiscing about the joy of racism. God, who also testifies, is a huge Colbert fan. He once answered everyones prayers, He explains, but now its gimme, gimme, gimme. Since players on both teams beg for victory, I usually have no choice but to answer the prayer of whatever team is better. Religion, Sex and Dating, The Homosexual Agenda (Do Not Read By Glowstick Light)--the fabulous fake TV pundit sets the world aright. Its all in Colberts voice: Hes angry, hes confident, and hes kidding. If only all TV and radio pundits traded the hating business for the laughing business. Lord, hear my prayer. B.H.C. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
Stephen Colbert is a writer and correspondent on the Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show and a successful screenwriter. He resides on an organic date farm on the Tunisian coast.

Customer Reviews

This review refers to the Kindle edition of the book
I found this book throughly enjoyable and very funny, but the reading experience was marred by the fact that many image files - especially those including texts - were very hard to read, and even totally illegible in some cases (the "childhood letter" is probably the worst offender in this regard).

Most of these problems would have been entirely avoidable if the publisher had taken more care when converting the book to the Kindle format - for example, by resizing certain images so that they would have been split over two pages instead of one, and by increasing the brightness contrast - and thus I have to bump this product down to four stars. People who have bought the printed version of the book are obviously unaffected.

Truthiness in your hands, just like the Holy Bible but truthier
If by now you don't know who Stephen Colbert is, you need to come out of your cave, log onto the internets and order I Am America (And So Can You)
America is the land of opportunity, freedom, liberty and free enterprise. This book yields the opportunity for you to become free and liberated, and to reap the rewards of free enterprise. That's what I did in 2 short weeks! Mr. Colbert explains how you too, can be American. I strongly urge all liberals, independents, and socialists to skip this read. Your defective hearts and minds will become even more defectiver.

best read of the year!
stephen colbert is absolutely hilarious. i've been a big fan of his ever since strangers with candy. this book was the best read for me in a long time, with all of the side notes, foot notes, pictures, etc. it's perfect for anyone with a great sense of humor.