You have seen the the Colbert Report Christmas special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! about a million and a half times on Comedy Central, I’m sure. I can also sense that you are thinking about purchasing the DVD version to not only support charity but to own something else with Stephen Colbert’s face on it. There are reasons to hesitate, sure, what with the million and a half viewings and the recession and your laziness to enter the CliqueClack DVD giveaway, but maybe this review can swing you into your final decision.

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Like many people, I usually have a song stuck in my head. For some reason these songs, more often than not, come from television commercials. It probably has more than a little to do with the fact that I watch a lot of TV.

I swear, though, advertisers have some mad scientists writing these songs. I’m convinced there are subliminal messages in them to make sure they get burned into your memory cells. It’s evil, and sometimes I am afraid I’m going to get triggered and enter Machurian Candidate mode and try to kill someone. That’s probably just me, though, right?

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