Longtime TV critic David Bianculli has written a great piece in the Boston Phoenix about Stephen Colbert. Titled "Comedy Rambo," it details -- as if readers here need to know that -- how hot Colbert is.
Misunderestimate Stephen Colbert at your peril. Just because he is an unassuming, bespectacled physical specimen whose business cards may read “TV comedian” is no reason to dismiss him as a lightweight funnyman. Since the very night he launched his own series on Comedy Central in 2005, Colbert has thrown some vicious elbows, and demonstrated a bravura that dares his enemies to, in paraphrasing his ironic hero George W. Bush, bring it on.
That, in a paragraph, demonstrates why Colbert is such a phenomenon right now. Bianculli even opines that Colbert is so hot people are talking about him during the writer's strike when there are no new shows. You certainly don't see that with Jon Stewart and Jay Leno.
Anyway, it's a great profile. And it's a carrot to keep the Colbert fans happy until the show returns.
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