The Colbert Report Was Simplistic

Silly jokes about hot button topics that don't actually contain my opinion on the topic are risky. Misdirection and silliness runs the risk of people not knowing exactly what you think about something right the like the safest thing well so in the comedians toolkit there's all these different ways of writing and of doing material, he says. The joke you will hear most often is just an analogy can be silly but it always contains basically what I think and then they'll have some crazy analogy to go with it.

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