k-r if you think colbert is funnier than stewart

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28. He's always in character.

He didn't break character testifying before Congress about his SuperPAC. He even stayed in character when he returned after his mother had been sick. Do you understand how tedious that can be, pretending to be something you aren't, day after week after month after year (Most people manage that about as well as Mitt Romney, but that's a digression).

Stewart is very good but he isn't even in Colbert's league any more, truthfully. Even they guy who couldn't make on The Daily Show, Steve Carell, does satire better than Jon these days.

Stewart, candidly, needs to own responsibility for his influence on the so-called actual media, and not cop out and say "I'm just a comedian" every time he gets called on it. Virtually every host on MSNBC and Current have, to varying degrees, adopted the schtick of recording the right-wing and playing their words back to demonstrate their hypocrisy and make fun of it. Yes, TDS set the bar but they have slipped a lot in the past few years.