We’ve been taping, each night, monday through thursday, the new episodes of The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Then, over the course of the week and the weekend, we watch them all.

It’s a fab system we’ve devel­oped. We don’t miss the antics of the shows, and yet we don’t end up cut­ting into our sleep time to watch them. And, as a bonus, we can fast for­ward through all the com­mer­cials! Ahh, VCRs are not obso­lete yet.

I have to say that Colbert has taken the won­derful con­cepts that were devel­oped on the Daily Show, and placed them among the heavens above. The guy is not just an incred­ibly funny come­dian, he’s also the sharpest mind on TV since Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Sheer genius. Each episode is packed all the way through with punches and jabs and acute obser­va­tions on topics as diverse as Sigmund Freud’s birthday, to Feminine Sexual Emplowerment, to Robotic Deadly Bears.

His schtick, so amaz­ingly played out by him, of being a neo-conservative, ultra right wing, xeno­phobic, homo­phobic, religious-fundamentalist is just flaw­lessly por­trayed – except for the few times each night when he breaks out into a grin mid-sentence.

I am just so happy that there is SOME quality on TV nowa­days. Being more of a book-ish person, TV is usu­ally a very dis­ap­pointing and boring waste of time for me. But when it’s Colbert time, his Lincolnish despite for the fac­tin­ista make my stomach hurt in sweet pain from unstop­pable laughter.

Don’t miss the new site: The Colbert Nation