Steven Colbert built a career playing a broad “Major Bloodnock”-style caricature of a conservative, designed to make liberals titter knowingly (if, usually, autonomically; Colbert may have been, if possible, even more an innovation of “duckspeak” than his benefactor, Jon Stewart.
Now that he’s gotta be himself and win and audience?
What’s that smell? Yep – the stench of death.
Heh.
Colbert is apparently a victim of his own success. He’s spent nine years helping to dumb down young people and when he switched networks, they were unable to find his new show.