I thought I'd post another link or two.
This blog post explores (but comes to no conclusions) regarding comedy and religion. Linked in from the post is an NPR interview by Terry Gross with Stephen Colbert; the interview is enjoyable, and touches on religion a bit in the piece.
The blog post also references a Colbert Report from January 26, 2006. I've dug it up from the depths of the Colbert Report website. The portion of the segment about Clinton and sound bites takes place starting at about 5:00 in the segment.
As a meta-point: what I'm doing is exploring this question of religion and comedy on my own and sharing the sources that I'm finding as I go. Not scholarly resources, but still... I'm searching Google, using what I find to do other searches (I had to search for the date of the show on the Colbert website), listening to other sources, and so on. Put simply, this is the process of inquiry, played out in the small, but it is the beginning of a much larger and complex inquiry.
