Conservative (sort of) columnist Andrew Sullivan discusses The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. I think Sullivan (sort of) misses a key point, which is that the humor of those programs is largely about the people and not their politics. A President who stumbles over every sentence, a Vice-President who shoots people in the face, a Senator caught in a men's room scandal…that stuff is the mother lode of current events comedy writing, no matter which party the players represent. And both Comedy Central shows are more about the pundits and the press than the elected officials, anyway. When he says, "…but the bipartisan guest list cannot disguise the anti-establishment, liberal bent of the show," he seems unaware that comedy, by its very nature, is usually anti-establishment. If you're going to laugh at someone slipping on a banana peel — and I never have but it's a metaphor — it's funnier if it's a rich fat cat and not a poor or powerless individual. Comedy doesn't have to be liberal but it's probably easier that way.