Colbert’s report, revisited

Comedian Stephen Colbert’s now infamous testimony in front of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law Friday has drawn mixed reactions on Capitol Hill and off.

Subcommittee chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, Democrat of California, invited Colbert to bring attention to the struggles of illegal immigrant farm laborers, based on his first-hand experience – a day spent as a migrant worker for a Colbert Report segment.

Today the Globe's editorial page weighed in:

“Colbert began his remarks in his persona as a Bill O’Reilly-style conservative commentator whose ideological blinders discredit everything he says. Colbert’s gags — his assertion that consumers should stop eating vegetables, his offer to enter a video of his colonoscopy into the congressional record — fell embarrassingly flat.”

Read more of the Globe’s “A little earnestness goes a long way” here.