50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Returning TV Series

#7. The Colbert Report
Comedy Central

Stephen Colbert's nightly ego-blast started out as a punditry parody and has evolved into mass-scale interactive performance art. After invading Wikipedia and getting the host's name on a bridge in Hungary, this year Colbert and the Colbert Nation nearly got his name on the South Carolina primary balllot. He was derailed by the Democratic and Republican parties (and then by the writers' strike), but he made the quest into an on-air tutorial about, and commentary on, big-money politics. (Thank you, Doritos!) For that, Colbert is a fine American, and so can you.

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