The Comedy of Politics vs. The Politics of Comedy

Okay so everyone has heard about Stephen Colbert testifying in front of Congress about migrant farm workers, right?  If you haven't, go watch the video.  I'll wait.  Okay, done yet?  Anyway, when Colbert got there, he had submitted some remarks, then went into his character from his TV show.  For a few minutes I just sat there and went 'oh my god, is he seriously doing this in character?'  Then later on, after he had apparently exhausted himself trying to keep up the blowhard act, he had this exchange with Rep. Judy Chu:

CONGRESSWOMAN JUDY CHU: Mr. Colbert, you could work on so many issues, why are you interested in this issue?
COLBERT: I like talking about people who don’t have any power. And this seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are migrant workers who come and do our work but don’t have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave. And, you know, whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers, these seem like the least of our brothers, right now. And I know that a lot of people are the least of my brothers because the economy is so hard, and I don’t want to take anyone’s hardship away from them or diminish it or anything like that, but migrant workers suffer, and they have no rights.”

So Colbert, a comedian, went to Congress and 'made a mockery' of the process, according to some politicos.  What they fail to see is that Colbert's impassioned speech about 'the least of his brothers' proved the point all the immigration reformers have been trying to do for years.  That these are real people, and we treat them as a means to an end.  Even his comedy bits pointed out the hypocrisy that many anti-immigration citizens show when they are speaking out.  'll let Steve have the last word:
"This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, then served by a Venezuelan, in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian."