Fake newsmen interviewed in RS

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 18th, 2006

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were interviewed in Rolling Stone. The two come off as new Age Marx Brothers (playing the pompous and befuddled Margaret Dumont role is Maureen Dowd). Along the way, they make some good points and, from the excerpts we’ve read, give good interview (as do most of your comedians).

Dowd: Your shows are like mirrors within mirrors, using a cycle of fakery to get to the truth. You’ve tapped into a sense in society that nothing, from reality shows to Bushworld, is real anymore. Do you guys ever get confused by your hall of mirrors?

STEWART: I didn’t know we were going to have to be high to do this interview.

COLBERT: I think we see it less as a hall of mirrors and more as one of those slenderizing mirrors you can buy that you see in catalogs that make you feel good about yourself before you go out the door.

Of Stewart, Daily Show and Colbert Report producer Ben Karlin said that “He’s self-trained in stand-up. He learned in the wretched comedy clubs of New York.” At one point, they’ve become comedians in response to traumatic incidents to which Stewart replies that he is sick of being a comedian regarded as “an affliction when its really an ability.”

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