Stephen Colbert's getting his own show (link via Atrios). Awesome. It'll air after the Daily Show, and the plans is for it to go after the pundit half of the cable news establishment. I'm expecting an absurdist O'Reilly Factor with the egomania somehow ratcheted up.

I don't know if there are four nights' worth of material available per week to power that concept -- but as a fan of the impossibly funny Strangers With Candy, I'm eager to find out. The scene from season 2 where Colbert mimes a clown committing suicide reduces me to drooling, hysterical, drowning laughter pretty reliably.