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[[Image:AwardSticker.png|thumb|170px|A sample image of the sticker found on the book, which reads ''"The Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence"''.]]
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'''''I Am America (And So Can You!)''''' is a 2007 satirical [[bestseller]] book by American comedian [[Stephen Colbert]] and the writers of ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. It was released on October 9, 2007, with the audiobook edition released several days earlier. The book is loosely structured around the fictional life story of [[Stephen Colbert (character)|Stephen Colbert]] as he appears on ''The Colbert Report''. As of the April 6, 2008 publishing, the book had been on the [[New York Times Bestseller List]] in the Hardcover Nonfiction category for twenty-four weeks, ranking number one for fourteen of them.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/ | title = ''New York Times'' Bestseller List |work=The New York Times | accessdate = 2008-04-02}}</ref>
'''''I Am America (And So Can You!)''''' is a 2007 satirical [[bestseller]] book by American comedian [[Stephen Colbert]] and the writers of ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. It was released on October 9, 2007, with the audiobook edition released several days earlier. The book is loosely structured around the fictional life story of [[Stephen Colbert (character)|Stephen Colbert]] as he appears on ''The Colbert Report''. As of the April 6, 2008 publishing, the book had been on the [[New York Times Bestseller List]] in the Hardcover Nonfiction category for twenty-four weeks, ranking number one for fourteen of them.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/ | title = ''New York Times'' Bestseller List |work=The New York Times | accessdate = 2008-04-02}}</ref>

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I Am America (And So Can You!)
AuthorStephen Colbert
Rich Dahm
Paul Dinello
Allison Silverman
with
Michael Brumm
Eric Drysdale
Rob Dubbin
Glenn Eichler
Peter Grosz
Peter Gwinn
Jay Katsir
Laura Krafft
Frank Lesser
Tom Purcell
Stephen Colbert (uncredited)
LanguageEnglish
GenrePolitical satire
Humor
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
Publication date
October 9, 2007
Publication placeUSA
Media typeHardback & Audiobook
Pages250 pp (1st edition)
ISBNISBN 0-446-58050-3 (first edition, hardback) Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
OCLC166924679
818.607 22
LC ClassPN6165 .I25 2007

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A sample image of the sticker found on the book, which reads "The Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence".

I Am America (And So Can You!) is a 2007 satirical bestseller book by American comedian Stephen Colbert and the writers of The Colbert Report. It was released on October 9, 2007, with the audiobook edition released several days earlier. The book is loosely structured around the fictional life story of Stephen Colbert as he appears on The Colbert Report. As of the April 6, 2008 publishing, the book had been on the New York Times Bestseller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category for twenty-four weeks, ranking number one for fourteen of them.[1]

Description

I Am America (And So Can You!) is described as being a "pure extension" of The Colbert Report, delving into the views of Colbert's "well-intentioned, poorly informed high status idiot"[2] character on what he considers to be the most pressing issues facing America. The book draws some influence from the literary endeavors of the character's pundit models, such as Bill O'Reilly's book, The O'Reilly Factor (2000) and Sean Hannity's Deliver Us From Evil (2004), which Colbert says he forced himself to read as a reference.[3]

Red margin notes appear throughout the book, providing humorous reactions and counterpoints to Colbert's arguments in a style comparable to the Report's Wørd segment.[4] The cover features a sticker depicting a burning book, declaring I Am America to be a winner of "The Stephen T. Colbert Award for the Literary Excellence." A sheet of twelve similar stickers are provided inside, with which readers are provided to nominate other books for the award. A second sheet of stickers containing positive expressions such as "Hell Yeah!", "Nailed It!" and "It's Morning In Colbert-ica" is included for readers as bookmarks to remind themselves "when you agreed with me most."[5]

Colbert, whose character frequently uses his show to advertise his own fictional products, frequently promoted I Am America on screen prior to and immediately following its release, including a commercial which ended with the book emerging from an erupting volcano (similar to Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health). On October 9, 2007, the day of the book's release, Colbert interviewed himself as the show's featured guest. On Meet the Press, he signaled that his book was testing waters for a Presidential run, much like other politicians. However, although he tried to enter both the Democratic and Republican races for the nomination (but only in South Carolina), he was promptly removed from both.

Audiobook cast and crew

Starring:

  • Stephen Colbert as Himself and as Gil Honeycomb, oldest man in the world (ch. 2, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Amy Sedaris as Dolores Grierson, old maid (ch. 1, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Raymond Whitman as Young Stephen (ch. 2, seven-year-old's note)
  • Evelyn McGee as Cow #L73NR, a cow (ch. 3, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Paul Gilmartin as God, maker of all that is seen and unseen (ch. 4, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Kevin Dorff as The Guy Sitting Next to You at The Stadium (chs. 5 and 13, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Allison Silverman as Your Soulmate (ch. 6, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Paul Dinello as Austin, a formerly gay man (ch. 7, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Brian Stack as Dr. Bernard Brunner, distinguished professor (ch. 8, Stephen Speaks For Me) and as Thomas Bindlestaff, executive assistant to Mr. Stephen Colbert (ch. 11, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Jon Stewart as Mort Sinclaire, former TV comedy writer and Communist (ch. 9, Stephen Speaks For Me)
  • Greg Hollimon as Rev. George A. Lewis, ex-civil rights leader (ch. 12, Stephen Speaks For Me)

Abridged by Paul Dinello, directed by Paul Dinello, produced by Paul Dinello and John McElroy.

Awards

The audiobook was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 2009. However, the award was won by Al Gore and his book on global warming, the companion book to the film An Inconvenient Truth. The book has also won the fictional "Stephen T Colbert Award For The Literary Excellence."

See also

References

  1. ^ "New York Times Bestseller List". The New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
  2. ^ Solomon, Deborah (September 25, 2005). "Funny About the News". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved January 5, 2008.
  3. ^ Colbert, Stephen (October 16, 2007). "Meet the Author" podcast. Retrieved on 2007-10-27.
  4. ^ Maslin, Janet (October 8, 2007). "It May Be a Book, but You Can Read It". The New York Times. Retrieved January 5, 2008.
  5. ^ Colbert, Stephen (2007). I Am America (And So Can You!). New York: Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 0-446-58050-3
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