History Literature / IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: To be the World's Strongest Man, Colbert lists a mule, Rodin's The Thinker, and "Rodin's The Thinker riding a mule" as what you need to lift.

* {{bowdlerize}}: Colbert praises the efforts of censors and claims that contrary to some prevalent opinions, censorship encourages creativity. For example, writing "Flip you, codbucket" takes more imagination than the more obvious, profane alternative.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In the "Hollywood" section, it notes how Creator/RKORadioPictures was "bought by tire company" as the sign it was on the decline. This actually happened- in 1955, after Howard Hughes drove RKO into the ground, he fled and sold what little remained of RKO to the General Tire and Rubber Company, who then proceeded to refocus it by merging RKO into their broadcasting holding to form RKO General (which began to be dismantled in the late 80s after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO_General#The_licensing_saga years of corruption and lying to the government]]).

* BluenoseBowdlerizer: Colbert praises the efforts of censors and claims that contrary to some prevalent opinions, censorship encourages creativity. For example, writing "Flip you, codbucket" takes more imagination than the more obvious, profane alternative.

* InterserviceRivalry: Colbert doesn't like the Army-Navy football game, because "either way, you're rooting ''against'' our boys."

* NeverSayDie: His parents' use of this trope has led Stephen to believe that his childhood dog, Shasta, was living on a big farm upstate. He insists that his current dog is ''so'' much better, and will be with him forever, unlike Shasta and his grandfather.

* StrawmanPolitical: Follows (the character) Creator/StephenColbert's right-wing doctrine.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Fictional!Colbert sure has daddy issues. This book even provides the trope's page quote.
* YouPutTheXInXY: You can't spell "parentry" without "try". Also you can't spell "emotional abuse" without "bus", [[InsaneTrollLogic which is why Colbert never takes public transportation]]. And if you think books ''aren't'' scary, You can't spell "book" without "Boo!"

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Fun Zone for Hollywood has the same answer for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Rosie O'Donnell, Music/SherylCrow and Creator/AlecBaldwin: d. "Hey! Look at me!" Also, most editions say "from the author of ''I Am America (And So Can You!)''" at the top.

* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Fun Zone for Hollywood has the same answer for Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Rosie O'Donnell, Sheryl Crow and Alec Baldwin: d. "Hey! Look at me!" Also, most editions say "from the author of ''I Am America (And So Can You!)''" at the top.

* GodwinsLaw: Done with people other than Hitler. For example, he calls women's rights activists "Femin-[[UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}} Idi-Amins]]".

* DirtyCommunists: Mort Sinclair, the communist TV writer from one of the "Stephen Speaks For Me" segments.