Colbert's ability to be both serious and fatuous simultaneously is remarkable, but what makes it all the more remarkable is his genius for taking apart the modern political establishment and showing their stupidity, hypocrisy and insincerity.
That he has been able to do this so brilliantly, insightfully and amusingly and for so long is tantamount to a great actor playing Hamlet every week for 568 (and counting) consecutive performances is astounding.
My personal viewing habits are limited to small doses of Colbert, but only because watching him is the equivalent of eating a month's worth of sweets in thirty minutes.
He is, without question, the greatest political commentator of our time, and a national treasure.
Recently, there have been some rumblings that his ratings are not all that good, and that his show may be subject to cancellation.
I hope for my sake, the country's sake, and the world's sake that The Colbert Report continues on for many years to come.
His 2006 speech at the White House Correspondents' dinner is one of the most subversive and brilliant skewering of the both the political establishment and the media that covers them that has ever taken place.
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