I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!) by Stephen Colbert

When I was younger I thought humor excused everything. I believed anything could be forgiven as long as it was funny, an attitude I kept well into my 30s. I was wrong, of course. I have no doubt that many very funny people will be in Hell after Judgment Day. And that's a fact that makes me profoundly sad.

Stephen Colbert is a genuinely funny man, and his alter ego, a parody of right-wing talk show hosts who is also named Stephen Colbert, is even funnier. Unfortunately, both sometimes resort to foul language and gutter humor to make their points.

This is Colbert's first book, and in many ways it's his best. I would have loved it when I was 30, but now I don't recommend it.