© Comedy CentralThree researchers at The Ohio State University say that when holding a mirror up to the political satire on The Colbert Report you probably see your own perceptions staring back at you.
Colbert has built a career mocking the right-wing. So why does new research suggest that the comedian is popular with Conservatives?So ... Stephen Colbert doesn't really mean all those wacky liberal-bashing things he says, does he? Comedy Central's The Colbert Report is obviously a parody of a wing-nut right-wing talk show. Right?
Or ... is it? (Cut to devilishly quizzical chin-grabbing stare.)
He can't be serious.
Or ... can he sort of be? (Cut to screeching bald eagle.)
Well, apparently Colbert is just that good. His character is so pitch-perfectly ambiguous that, according to a new study, what it is you see in him is whatever it is you want to see in him. If you are liberal, he is a liberal, too. If you are a conservative, he is a conservative, just like you.
And if you are a bear, well, good luck.
Colbert is, it would appear, a fun-house mirror to the deepest recesses of your political soul.