They are in a down period right now from my POV. At one time the emphasis was on actual news parody and great correspondents. Brian Unger was the best correspondent of all of them, for parody purposes. Well I guess Stephen Colbert is equal to it. These days the show is dropping into self-indulgent partisan stuff too quickly IMO and it weakens its nature as a news parody. Jon Stewart is almost too big because he's almost too good at it to run full-out parody.
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