The first book by Stephen Colbert and the staff of The Colbert Report, 2007’s I Am America (And So Can You!), was a distilled form of the Comedy Central show, geared at satirizing books by other prominent political pundits like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. It contained margin notes in the style of the Report segment “The Word,” and followed a general timeline of the Colbert’s character’s life. It was so successful that Colbert even adapted the concept with a parody of money-grabbing, celebrity-written children’s books, I Am A Pole (And So Can You!).
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