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Guy YedwabWriting the Essay3/27/2007InterviewBailes begins her essay not by introducing the Elevator Repair Service, nor by introducing the performance which sparked her interest, but rather by describing the context of her experiences withERS. She describes her feelings of isolation in Manhattan, and her feelings of confusion and lack of self. Then, once she has adequately introduced the reader into her background, she begins to describeher experience with ERS. The reason she does this is so that she can communicate what, on anemotional level, gripped her so tightly about the performance and the group.Then she moves into the interview, but with a far more solid foundation. Her questions spark directly from her interest, fleshing out precisely what drew her to ERS in the first place. She moves todig deeper into the elements of the production (the dismantling of the audience-actor relationship)which drew her attention in the first place. Her questions also flow naturally from the responses whichJohn Collins provide.What drew me to Stephen Colbert was the power of his satirical format. The impact of his satirehas been almost immediately felt. Democratic Caucus chair Rahm Emanuel warned Democrats not toappear on the show lest they jeopardize the new Democratic majority. When Stephen Colbert coinedthe word “Truthiness” in the first episode, it became the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2005. The guests he has managed to get on his show have become more and more prestigious;Madeliene Albright, various Congressmen, and Henry Kissinger are among the guests which Colberthas managed to get a hold of on his show. In an atmosphere of obfustication and lack of dialogue, hisappearance before the Press Correspondent's Dinner was a bold and principled act of dissent.One of my favorite writers, Vaclav Havel, describes in his essay
 Power of the Powerless
, thatthe only way to stand up to a government built on lies is to live in truth. Colbert manages to live thetruth while wrapping himself in a character, exposing hypocrisy and lies by simply repeating them
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