Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Ruins Stephen Colbert’s Reputation

by Mike Bechek | July 11, 2008 at 4:58 pm

When "The Colbert Report" first came out in 2005, I predicted it would be a failure. The Colbert persona, while funny, is exhausting in large doses, and I thought people would get sick of him. This turned out not to be true, for awhile.

Enter Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, which has just come out with the best example I've seen of what happens when you try to hijack something that people have already perhaps had a bit too much of and...completely ruin it.

The idea of the magazine's article is that, since Colbert's conservative alter-ego went to Dartmouth, wouldn't it be a hoot to do a profile of him as though he really were an alum? Except, you know, make it just a tiny bit sarcastic so the VERY acute reader can get in on the joke?

The result is, to steal a phrase from the NYT's A.O. Scott, "antifunny."

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