Simon Schama on Colbert, Stewart And His New Vogue Column

New Yorker and Vogue contributor Simon Schama spoke to The Independent on the occasion of fetching an honorary degree at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. The celebrated author of Rembrandt’s Eyes is a big fan of former South Carolina Presidential primary hopeful, Stephen Colbert, whom he finds ”an absolute scream…the nearest you get to Sacha [Baron Cohen] when he was Ali G. He and Stewart are the saving grace. But what they don’t do is the Hogarthian, nail-your-tongue-to-the-floor savagery that somehow survives in British television.”