Read the first few chapters and it is very Stephen Colbert. Whitty, funny, in depth, blunt...good book so far

Good price and got what I ordered. The book is funny. Not very informative but an easy read and great way to pass time

Downloads in 15 seconds, and takes about as long to figure out that he was simply capitalizing on his celebrity. I THOUGHT I would enjoy a light, funny read but instead subjected myself to a long run-on disjointed and runaway thought train that seemed to have no real destination. I eventually stopped reading after giving him some room to be funny or interesting, or SOMETHING. But now I have a new resentment in my life... that he's taking up room on my Kindle, plus it's a frequent reminder that I was hoodwinked out of 9.99 when 1.99 might have left me feeling chagrinned, but at least not ripped off.

Stephen, stick to TV. You ARE funnier there and it costs us nothing.

I am glad I got this from my local library rather than waste good money. While entertaining at times, this mishmash of nonsense has the feel of Colbert's appearance - a deer caught in the headlights, and wired out on caffeine.

The book is great, the first half had me in stitches. Unfortunately as a reader on the Kindle I couldn't make out most of the images. If they were available at higher resolution and with the proper contrast they would be OK, so its not a limitation of the Kindle. The publisher obviously never previewed the book on the Kindle before sending it out.

I'm a huge fan of Colbert, but unfortunately I felt a little robbed after buying this book. The book is undoubtedly amusing but it mainly illicits chuckles and grins from the reader rather than genuine laugh-out-loud moments, which you would come across infrequently throughout the entire book.

This stems from the fact that the entire book is more or less the same diatribes from his show (mainly "The Word" segment), just converted to text and far more lengthy. And its other significant flaw is that it is just not insightful enough to be memorable.

Don't get me wrong, if you're a Colbert fan this is a book worth reading - just not to be bought as a pricey hardcover.

If you like The Colbert Report, you will love this book! It is typical Stephen Colbert humor, and you even get "The Word" as you read. This book is hilarious and a must-read for anyone who likes sarcasm and outrageous humor. It is full of truthiness! Be a hero, read this book, and I promise, you will laugh out loud!

Simply put, this is a must for any fan of Daily Show, Politically Incorrect, or any similar show. Stephen has an unusual wit about his comedy. The footnotes give the book just that much more value. And, you can nominate books for "The Stepehen T. Colbert Award for The Literacy Excellence"

He is Stephan Colbert .... and no other current TV show comedian is. This guy is extremely funny and his book had the kind of subtle and in your face humor that will keep any reader laughing out loud.

Pretty funny, typical Stephen Colbert type of issues and opinions, obviously not to be taken literally. Definitely got some good laughs out of it.

Beautiful book. I had a choice of adopting a 6 year old or getting Mr. Colbert's book. Let's just say my house is much cleaner now.

Like probably 80% of the under 35 year olds in the country, and all of the aged hippy, pinko, screaming liberal, big babies of all ages, I am a big fan of the Cobert Report. I was also a big fan of Mad Magazine. I'm afraid this book seems a bit too much like the latter.

I love the show and finally broke down and paid full price for the hardcover book. totally worth it ! I still find myself thinking back on passages and giggling. Will certainly read again whenever I am feeling down...and I will not forget how to put the book to bed properly.

I have only recently become a fan of Stephen Colbert after accidentally coming across the Colbert Report (pronounced "Repore") by him anyway. From that very first accidental episode, I fell in love with his work and his satirical representation of the typical American and their look on life. That episode happened to advertise this book, and I bought it to see if the satirical personality of Colbert could come across just as well on paper. I needn't have worried as the right wing Republican character of Colbert came off, at times, better than his TV personality.

In this book, which he openly admits he didn't write but dictated himself, he gives us his honest and at times controversial opinions on a number of aspects of life.

The family
Old people
Animals
Religion
Sports
Sex and dating
Homosexuals
Higher education
Hollywood
The media
Class war
Race
Immigrants
Science

They are the truth, the Stephen Colbert truth. The only better truth is the word of God so you better accept the second best truth of Colbert. "Racism no longer exists in America" one of Colbert's many truths, if you can't handle it, then you better go live somewhere else.

All joking aside, if you're a serious reader, then this book isn't for you. It has to be read one small part at a time as if you do read for any real length of time, then the text will become predictable. If you read it as if you're watching the Report (remember the T is silent) I found it came across much funnier than if you were just reading as you would any other book. That being said, it's still an awesome read and is something that can only really be appreciated by fans of the show.

I read a lot of books - but I don't remember the last time I read a book that had me laughing out loud! Sparkling humor and cutting intelligence in true Colbert form. He is passionately and unabashedly outspoken on all things politically incorrect, but oh so morally correct! Can't get enough of his idealism and his genious sense of humor!

I give this book two thumbs up!!! Its great read, full of funny moments and things that make you stop and think. Colbert is a smart and funny man. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

Stephen Colbert is truly, a national treasure. Certainly, he's great enough to be considered an international treasure, but America isn't going to share him any time soon.

He is the most intelligent man I've never met, equally funny (if not more so) than any late night talk show host including Jon Stewart.

The book is packed with stickers, and bright colors, so you don't feel like you're disobeying him by actually learning anything.

Although I think some of the jokes can be shared by politicos and non-politicos alike, the only way you're really going to be able to enjoy his work is by having kept up with politics for the past five years, at least. So, take that as a warning to anyone who likes Mind of Mencia and decided that since Colbert is on the same channel that they'd get the humor.

So, what are you waiting for? Buy this book now, you won't regret it.

great book if you like the colbert show people who do not enjoy the show, then save your moneu.
i gave it 4 stars since i didnt love ch. 2 much.

I laughed out loud more than from any book in a long time. The final laugh is to see that most of the negative reviews here are from people who don't even realize Colbert's character is a parody.

Two things I find amazing about this guy - 1, he never comes out of character or at least I have never seen him out of character and 2, he changed the pronunciation of his last name to sound what..., French?

I guess I'm considered a Welfare Dad because I didn't buy this garbage, I borrowed it, the CD version, from a friend at work (now I have to reconsider my friendship because my buddy actually thinks this guy is funny). Anyway, after listening to about half the first disc I can honestly say that I haven't even cracked a smile yet. Obtuse cynicism at its worst is all I can call this excuse for a book. Certainly anybody that thinks this is funny, humorous, poignant or sarcastic wit hasn't read or listened to any real humor.

The thing that bothers me most about Colbert (pronounced col-burt and not col-bear) is that I have never seen him out of character leaving me to believe that this guy is really the cynical idiot he portrays himself to be and wondering if he actually applies his value system to his own life. I don't know much about him nor do I care too but I only hope that his family isn't affected by his view of life.

I always read the worst reviews first to see what people have to say negatively about something before I make my decision. I am honest enough to say that I'm not a fan of this guy - I really can't stand him - but I figured hey, he's supposed to be a comedian so let's see how funny he is - well - he ain't funny!!!!

As long as Stephen Colbert has been performing, he's been writing. This is a brilliant man in full command of a comedic sensibility that has been delighting me for many years. When I discovered that a book would be released written in the tone of the right-wing blow-hard character that he has created for The Colbert Report, I was thrilled. When I finally got my hands on a copy (not easy to do at first, since I live in the UK), I was not disappointed in the least.

Colbert loses none of the bombastic style of his alter ego, and the observations made are riotously funny. The section where he describes all one needs to know to have a college education is perfection. I also loved his chapter on the dominance over animals (love to Gipper!)

I have heard from many, many people that Stephen Colbert, in real life, is a mild-mannered, kind man who is polite and decent. To read the rants of the egomaniacal jerk he's created to lampoon the screaming heads on television (whoever yells the loudest wins, apparently) is a bit surreal, but never unsatisfying.

I look eagerly forward to more from Stephen Colbert, in whatever media he uses to share it. No matter how I get to experience his humor, I know I'll be in for a treat.

I like the Colbert Report TV show, and this book is funny, but honestly I only got through a few chapters because much of it is just the wanderings and somewhat random musings of Colbert's mind on everything from politics to families to whatever crosses his mind. Some of it is really quite funny, but it got kind of fatiguing and boring.

I bought this for my husband for his first Father's Day and he can't get enough of it. You can pretty much turn to any page at any time and laugh hysterically.

What a great laugh! A little crude, but what else would you expect from Stephen Colbert? It is exactly like the Report, but in book form. The margin notes and foot notes are perhaps the most entertaining part of the book. One caution, though: since the sex, religion, and race chapters are all in a row, it's probably best to not read the book in one sitting. One can only take so much political incorrectness at a time!!This book is definitely worth buying if you enjoy the Colbert Report. I haven't laughed that heartily at a book in a long time.

Stephen Colbert is the type of satirical character who caters to a particular audience: The wittier of us who can comprehend the depth of the joke. This book expounds on the Truthiness he has already been so kind as to reveal to us on the Report. Best of all, it's written with The Word-esque margin notes, doubling the laughter!

In short, if you understand satire and the character Colbert has created for himself, this book shall not disappoint. If political satire isn't your thing, well, you may want to look elsewhere.

This book will keep you in stitches from cover to cover!! I wansn`t able to put it down...it`s a gut busting good time, just like his show...you`ll truly appreciate his intellectual wit and humor that`s all wrapped up with a side of wisdom that only Stephen Colbert can bring.
A two thumbs up!!

Here's a book written (or shouted into a tape recorder), by our favorite bear hating, wrist-strong wearing, anti anything that is anti-America man. In here you'll be told just how he is the 100% America that we know he is, and how if you try hard enough, you can be America too.

The book is not so much a book, as an episode of the Colbert Report quintessential-ized and shoved into book form, every few pages there's a fun zone, stickers, or a hilarious graphic, and on every page are multiple little word captions. The book has the design of a child's activity book, only much more adult, political, and Stephen-filled. Sure you tell yourself your old enough that you don't do those childish puzzle books, but who can resist connecting the dots around America's border?

The book is a must-have for anyone who loves the show, or wants to get others involved in the show, so they leave a copy conspicuously laying out on a table for a friend to pick up and shout "Hey this is funny!"

Big, big difference between amusing and funny. Will Ferrell skating with Jon Heder is funny. Throwing a Baby Ruth candy bar in a crowded swimming pool is funny. Sending a Faber College parade into tumultuous chaos is funny. Heck, even Michael Moore is funny (especially when he's trying not to be funny).

Amusing is watered-down humor: A toddler playing with his diaper; a lawyer dropping his briefcase; Bill Clinton chastising the media. Amusing is okay, it's just. . .superficial. Which could not better describe self-aggrandizing Stephen Colbert's tepid tome I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!). Colbert's deadpan parody of morally crusading conservatism mildly entertains--even is warmly amusing in places--but still reeks of superficiality.

In other words, this book isn't very funny. And all the margin notes annoyed the tiddlywinks out of me.

You want funny in a book of satire and/or parody pick up Al Franken or early Rush Limbaugh (heavier then, but funnier) or even Glenn Beck (only after drinking heavily). Leave Colbert's I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) in your lawyer's briefcase. No doubt he will be amused.
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
(A very, very, very, very good book. . .)

As soon as I got the book I started reading it. From the beginning you see that it is written in a specific colbert-like style. Everyone who enjoyed The Daily Show book "Democracy Inaction" will not be dissapionted.
In conclusion a great book for everyone around the world.

If you like Steve Colbert's voice blaring at you for hours at end you'll love this. Most of the time its not funny, its just his babbleing and annoying. But its my own damn fault for buying his stupid audio book. No actual content, and a little funny.

Stephen Colbert's book is very interesting and humorous and sarcastic with many silly side-notes and whatnot. Its a must have for anyone who watches Comedy Central, or anyone into anything humorous or all that is American.

Ten Thumbs Up.

The first thing you should do before buying this book is watch an episode or two of his show. If you like it, get the book and if not, avoid it.

The book reads like a really really long "the word" (fans of the show will know what i mean) segment, where Stephen mockingly assumes reactionary viewpoints to make the actual conservative pundits' opinions seem ludicrous while at the same time one-liner text pokes fun at the current subject matter (the book does this in the margins). As a liberal, I enjoy it, but with any shtick, it does get repetitive. The book is good for short reading sessions because the joke doesn't get old, but do yourself a favor and don't plow through it, you will get sick of it. Conservatives might enjoy it too, if they can take constant attacks on their views... though not many people, liberal or conservative, can, it seems (just look at some of the other user comments).

hope that helped!

I found this book to be incredibly insulting to most people. It was funny at some points, but for the most part it really ticked me off and didn't make any sense.

As a "foreigner'', that is, a person not from the United States, I have only seen Colbert occasionally. I purchased this book after watching an interview with Larry King on CNN. I was struck by his depth of knowledge and ability to convert that into humour very quickly in (what I presume was) an unrehearsed setting.

The book has the same intellectual qualities and in that sense was rewarding. But after 100 pages the presentation becomes formulaic. Perhaps its the result of being born from sketch comedy. Perhaps a sign was long list of writers at the beginning: so much polish you just slip off the page.

this book was very entertaining if you like the Colert Report.. i bought this book because i believe mr. colbert is a very brilliant man, and has knows alot about politics and such. it ends up this book is just outlining the basis for america. he loves god, hates gays, and gives you his opinions straight up. good read

I guess the joke's on me. As I kept reading each chapter, I expected more. But everything was more of the same. A title for the book should be, "Stephen Colbert has some funny one-liners among his diatribe for a right wing America". That's about it. Colbert is kind of cold guy who likes to keep his viewers on tv at a distance and guessing if he's on the level or trying to be funny. Well, the book is the same way. Colbert is either incredibly shallow or he just feels more comfortable keeping his distance with his readers. What has worked for me on tv fell short in this book.

In general I found the book tedious, occasionally interrupted by a hilarious joke or insight. I think Stephen Colbair is more easily absorbed in 30-minute video doses, rather than the gift of Gutenberg. Wait til it comes out in paperback before spending your money...

Nearly every SENTENCE in this book is funny-genius. It's mind-boggling how smart and hilarious it is. It almost wore me out. Since I take books everywhere, and read everywhere, I found myself laughing everywhere, and sometimes inappropriately. However, it was worth it, because it made me smile, and, I believe, it made ME funnier in real life.

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.

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.

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.

Stephen Colbert isn't a comedian so much as he specializes in the asinine and juvenile "art" of schtick!!!! His talentless and utterly unfunny take on schtick is based on the oldest, most worn-out concept of all: mock conservatives by pretending to be one of them. So, his schtick is actually supposed to be a parody of a conservative (because as a liberal, Colbert cannot intellectually take on conservatives [he's too inept], so he relies on childish ridicule), but Colbert's misuse of tact, wit and subtlety make him a total failure, whether as author or TV host.

I read "I am America and so can You" because I stupidly gave the benefit of the doubt to Colbert and his now-exposed sycophant fans (read: cheerleaders who will laugh at anything unfunny as long as they somehow think it denigrates conservatives) as arbiters on what constitutes something legitimately funny. However, after "reading" (you can't really read Colbert's book; owing to the low intellect of his lib-fans, Colbert's actually written a "book" infested with primer language, HUGE font and lots of pictures) this tome, I now 100% understand what lowness liberals call "humor." Judging from Colbert's take on it, liberals find puerile profanity; coarse, sexual suggestiveness; idiotic and wayward tangents; and a childish mentality "funny!!!!"

The problem with Colbert isn't that he cowardly mocks conservatives by pretending to be a stereotype of one--that would actually require brains, an understanding of the culture and politics, or wit, all things Colbert falls waaaay short of. No, my resentment at Colbert and his radical fans of questionable taste is based on his failure to successfully pull off a caricature of a conservative! Lampooning, if done correctly, should be funny even if it does the taboo, which is to mock a conservative. However, Colbert's plain awful at his struggling attempts at parody, and this merely reinforces liberals' disrepute as people who are sheeple and subserviently go along with something if all their lib friends tell them to (kind of like all the brainwashed liberals who misguidedly back Obama without being able to tell of ANY accomplishment of his! BTW, how's that Reverend Jeremiah Wright thang coming along, libs, HAHAHAHA!)

So, what I'll do is cite a few, choice examples from Colbert's book, witheringly skewer the unfunny failures in them, and then educate liberals on what would TRULY make the failed parody funny! Are you ready? Then, let's go!

In the sophomoric section on marriage, Colbert, still pretending to be ultra-conservative, asserts that to stop the rising divorce rate in the US, couples should just fake happiness, even if they're trapped in a bad marriage, so they don't ruin marriage for their kids! If Colbert wanted to really make libs laugh and mock conservatives with parody, he would've asserted that American women not be allowed to demand divorces (kind of like in Islamic countries!) and instead become the property of their husbands! This would've been the far funnier parody since anti-marriage libs already think that conservatives and traditionalists who still respect the sacrament of marriage are sexists who want to enslave women, anyway!!!! Shame on failure-Colbert for not being insolent enough in his parody of conservatives, that w*ss.

In the infantile section on religion, Colbert parodies conservatives by asserting that the US is a Judeo-Christian nation and such, that there's no separation of church and state expressly written in the Constitution (absolutely true), etc.. Yet Colbert's miscalculating gags include pitiful punchlines involving assertions that thanks to religion, Americans can picket their kids' elementary schools if they find out any teacher there is g*y. Sheeple libs will gullibly find this funny, but this wasn't a good enough mockery of conservatives because Colbert is a w*ss. If he really wanted to mock conservatives for their religiosity, he would've done so in a way corresponding with what the majority of bigoted libs think about conservatives and religion. While still in ultra-conservative character, Colbert should've asserted that thanks to (Christian) religion, alternative-lifestyle g*ys are persecuted and cannot practice their children-corrupting "value-system" like in Old Europe. He should've also given thanks that the dear, innocent, Muslim demographic in the US is constantly in fear of being racially profiled because the Christians are simply carrying on their rightful Crusade of self-defense from their forefathers of the Middle Ages. That would've easily been funnier than Colbert's lameas* material because those insinuations would've been far more extreme than the schtick in his chapter.

Despite Colbert's flagrantly unmistakable derision of religion (read: Christian Americans), he's still too cowardly to mock all religions equally. In fact, proving what an unpardonable moral coward he is, Colbert actually gives Islam A PASS in the religion chapter despite the fact that making fun of Islam instead of Christianity would've yielded much, much better material! See, he could've easily made wisecracks about Islam and suicide bombings, beheadings, Sharia law, the stoning of g*ys, or the enslavement of women in Islamic marriages! Of course, being the predictably well-behaved lib he is, Colbert was SCARED of having a fatwa issued against him, so he shrewdly stayed away from ridiculing Islam, that wimp!

All right, now that I've incontrovertibly established why Colbert is just not funny under ANY circumstances and that libs simply have low-minded taste in humor, I'll subtly switch my righteous criticism to the mental maturity that's lacking in Colbert's material. In notorious example, Colbert--and by association all his sheeple liberal fans--actually gets immaturely bent kicks from talking about dog t*sticles at great length!!!! That's right: in one section on animals, DOG T*STICLES are the "intelligent punchline" of his shortcoming comedy! WTF???? Isn't Colbert well over 40 years old?! Despite his middle-age status, Colbert crookedly sees it as funny to include a whole page of close-up pictures of DOG T*STICLES (page 43 for all you p*rv-and-immature libs!) featuring the sacks of Irish setters, Dobermans, Golden Retrievers, English Setters, Schnauzers and Weimaraners!!!! Blatantly and without doubt, here, Colbert is merely expressing his unrequited desire for Colbert-on-dog sex, what with all his scary obsession with close-up pictures of DOG T*STICLES. I mean, that's just GOT to be the explanation because that section failed utterly at humor.

In closing, Colbert is an immature jackas* who childishly indulges in lowbrow humor that even high-school kids and college sophomores have grown waaaay too old for. The unsettling fact that mostly liberals find him to be a "comic genius" is further proof of how correct Michael Savage is for time and again stating that liberalism IS a mental disorder. The only reason for this "book"--because it certainly isn't the failed comedy attempts!--is for Colbert to promote his speech at the WH Correspondents' Dinner of 06 at the end...which wasn't funny either.

First, let me say that I adore the Colbert Report, from what I've seen of it. Unfortunately, he's not nearly as funny in print. Some of the book is outrageously funny, but mostly it tries too hard.

Political satire has become a genre all its own in recent years, and Colbert's book is, in a sense, the culmination of that genre when we need it most. With a historic presidential election looming and a highly divisive war lingering on indefinitely, it's a welcome relief to sit back and laugh at ourselves at least for a little while.

Colbert speaks the time-tested truth that none of us really is as important as we'd like to think. Thanks for the humorous reminder.

Terrible. Couldn't even bear to finish it. Gave it to a friend that was excited to get it and he gave it BACK 2 days later and said the same thing.

Humor is all about timing and it is sometimes difficult to catch the timing in the written word, but I think Colbert did a good job overall.
He does tackle all topics and if you aren't careful...you might learn something that makes you think. I enjoyed this book on my Kindle..

I bought this on the Kindle, and much of the content (pretty much all the graphics) is illegible on the Kindle's low-resolution, black-and-white screen. The book itself (what I could read of it) is hilarious, but I missed out on much of its content because of the Kindle's lack of zoom support for images. There are literally too few pixels to render some of his pages. It's too bad Amazon's rating system doesn't allow me to rate a particular edition of the book.

Sad to say, but the book just isn't that funny. I'm a big fan of the TV show ... but aside from a few good gags, the book just doesn't do it justice. Borrow it from the library if you must, but don't spend your $. You'll just be disappointed.

He would be the thirty-second greatest writer alive. I can't believe how every page of this book drips with previously hidden truth. It is spell-binding how easily the author demolishes thousands of years worth of history. I can hear the walls of American civilization crumbling as millions of priests, clergy, politicians, and penquins flee the bright truth-revealing light the author shines upon them.

Sell all you own and buy as many copies of this life-changing work that you can find.

If you are a fan of his show, than this is the book for you. It was extremely funny, and definetly worth picking up if political satire is your thing. I cant reccomned this book highly enough!