This is not so much a fanmix as it is the soundtrack to "Tek Jansen: the Rock Opera". 

It tells the story of Stephen Colbert, a man who may seem to have everything, but is falling apart, on both the inside and the outside, as he uses alcohol and drugs to numb his inner discontent, as he wildly eulogizes pageantry and heroism, but cannot see that he too has the capacity to be great. (Miniver Cheevy.)

He has a life that looks, and he will loudly claim, is perfect, as a conservative pundit with his own extremely successful basic cable show (Baby Mumbles). Despite a fabulous life, he is determined to keep being the man he thinks he is supposed to be, buttoned-up, down to earth and secure in his entrenched beliefs (Across the universe.) Inside, though, he's still a scared little boy, waiting for his father to come home and finding refuge in dreams of adventure and space (A Space Boy Dream.) All around him it feels like other people have something he is missing, and no matter how much he wants to, he can't bridge the gap, he can't keep up, he can't learn to fly the way they do (Space Pants). 

One day, he falls asleep at his desk, and dreams of Tek Jansen, the dashing space hero he had imagined as a boy, come back to lead him on all the adventures he's never dared even think about as an adult (Moonage Daydream). He wakes up, devastated that Tek was only a dream, and, not quite awake yet, wishes that Tek would show up and take him away, only to be surprised when the real Tek does appear and offer to show him the galaxy. With Tek, Stephen feels like he can do anything, that for once, everything will turn out all right (Super Trouper.) He tells  Tek about how he's waited his whole life for someone like Tek to come and change his world (Holding Out for a Hero).

Tek, who knows very well that he is amazing -- after all, he's had hundreds of girlfriends -- takes Stephen on a whirlwind tour of his awesomeness (Intergalactic.) But as he spends time with Stephen, and tumbles the man into bed, he comes to realize that it isn't Stephen who needs him, it's him who needs Stephen - Stephen is the man who creates him, Stephen is the one who is real (Nobody does it better). Stephen won't listen at first, until they encounter a peril that Tek can't handle - and instead of letting Tek rescue him, he has to act the way he did as a boy, and team up with Tek as an equal, at the same time realizing he can't stay with Tek forever, he'll have to go back to real world sometime (Bulletproof Heart). 

Stephen, with Tek's help, comes to understand that he can be awesome on his own, too, and he doesn't have to depend on Tek to fly. (Because I'm Awesome.) Finding his own confidence makes it possible for Stephen and Tek to finally admit who they really are to each other, and they head off on one last grand adventure together (Starship Troopers,) but Stephen eventually has to realize that where he belongs, and where he can do the most good, and be his best self, is back home on Earth (Corner of the Sky.) Tek assures him that he can save Earth the same way Tek saves other planets - and that Tek will be with him then, too (Change My World). 

But as he sends Stephen back home, Tek takes a moment to admit that without Stephen in it, his own world is too empty and too bright (Red Dwarf). He bitterly soliloquizes on the life of a man created just to be someone else's hero - as Stephen, waking up again in his office on Earth, starts to write down his adventures with Tek for the first time in thirty years, resolving to publish it and make Tek live in more hearts than his (Cartoon heroes). Trying to re-make their lives more real and more sure apart, both Stephen and Tek sing about how the other has shown them how to see farther (The Whole of the Moon). 

Stephen soon finds it harder than he had thought to integrate Tek's shooting-star methods into his own life, but he's determined to do what he can as a man, and as a popular basic cable star, which is more than he had ever realized before - and less than he thought he needed to, now that he's come to terms with who he really is (Superman). Using his newfound vision, Stephen builds his basic cable base into becoming one of the most powerful, if slighly off-kilter, men in the world (Handlebars). The memory of Tek, though, reminds him that human connections, and the people who have brought him to where is, are more important than his own image, and that Stephen and the people of Earth, for all their individual and collective faults, are glorious together (We Are All Made Of Stars).

And as he starts truly reaching out to the people around him, Stephen learns - finally - that it isn't living in a fantasy that's juvenile and powerless, what makes you powerless is trying to deny your dreams (Rich Fantasy Lives). And at the premier of the first Tek Jansen movie, he stands, for once, proud and unashamed of all that he's found by living out his dreams (Tek Jansen theme.)