Wisdom and justice

Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart are very funny men. It is a tribute that they are able to comment so watchably on the same events night after night. I have a theory that their jokes mine slightly different veins.

I think Jon Stewart speaks the judgments of Wisdom, and condemns foolishness - short-sightedness, self-interestedness and the casual ineptitude of elected leaders, and how they keep getting elected thanks to the uh wisdom of the American people.

Stephen Colbert makes judgments more often about justice and mercy. He is primarily interested in the categories of right and wrong.

JS sets em up, talking about the follies and venalities; SC knocks em down showing the wrongness of the wrong.

He who is slack in his work (JS's subjects) is brother to him who destroys (SC makes the connections.)

Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7