This book investigates the religious identity and authority of Stephen Colbert and his character Stephen Colbert.
By exploring Colbert's position as a lay catechist and televised comedian, this book examines how Catholicism shapes Colbert's experiences, and how Colbert and his persona nuance American Catholicism and the polarized American religious landscape.
Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations.
Fordham University Press America's most famous catholic (according to himself), paperback/stephanie n. brehm
