Audio was the way to go for this one. Really a book written by Stephan Colbert would be better preformed by the Actor/Comic/Narcissist. Amy Sederis and Paul Dinello preformed multiple rolls and while Colbert did his shtick as Russell Hokes the investigative journalist out to find the story a lifetime, his lifetime, in Wigfield; a town that may not really be a town. It could be just land held by squatters, but that is just what the law says.
A former street painter, Hokes painted the dashes in the center of the highways; he decides that he must be a writer. His first work of fiction is his resume.
After blowing most his advance in a Mexican resort, because he needed a little “me” time, Hokes hits the open road looking for the great story of the American small town, and this is the joke.
Much like the Colbert Report, Colbert and Company pokes fun the media’s decades old news story of the decline of small town America. This story takes the view that real America, the heartland, are small almost all white small towns in the bible-belt, and it being destroyed by “them.” The good true real Americans, with pristine small town values, which are good especially as oppose to “them.” I always sensed a bit of racism in this view and a distortion of fact. So, I enjoyed that this work takes the view of that small towns are not always inherently good and can just as bad as or worse than anywhere else. It really takes that point to town.
It is as funnier as anything as I have come across in a very long time. It makes fun self-righteousness in many forms by making the point that sounding self-righteous doesn’t make you right.
The book is like taking all the funniest jokes of a good sitcom for its entire lifespan and condensing into one book. Brilliant!
As an audiobook it sounds like a play recorded for radio sans a lot of cheesy sound effects.
The rest of the story is that the town of Wigfield is about to be destroy when the local dam is suppose to be destroyed. Here the old anti-government attitude by good ole fashion values is poked fun at here. These satirists are minor sociologist too.
Anyway, Russell (Colbert) has to get his story before there is nothing left or his publisher won’t give him anymore money.
Wigfield: The Can Do Town That Just May Not is highly recommended for constant laughs.
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