The Late Night TV Page lists this Thursday’s guest on “The Colbert Report” as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga.
Which, cool for Daily Kos, I guess, but super bad for the universe. After all, so many levels of irony and ideological blindness colliding at once are sure to rip a hole in the space-time continuum big enough to suck us all back to 1969, where we’d be forced to listen to Joan Baez warble about unionization if we were to have any chance whatsoever at sexing up a teenage girl. Outside of Alabama or Mississippi (and portions of West Virginia), that is.
(h/t Allah)
Oh boy, I can hardly wait. More of the Bush-bashing, America-blaming, rethuglican-hating invective you’ve come to expect from Comedy Channel programming, just minus the so-called “humorous” and snide veneer you usually get from Colbert and Stewart.
I guess I’ll just stay home and shove knitting needles into my ears and eyes as that’ll be far less painful than watching the fawning over Kos.
I actually think there’s a remote possibility that Colbert will make Kos look as weird as he actually is.
Wishful thinking?
Got to pimp the book. Down to #950 on Amazon.
Kos is as self-loathing of a girlie-man as they come.
To irritate a leftist to no end, send them this article on how when Jimmy Carter is angry, that is a sure sign of good news.
I’m with Dean. There’s a good chance that Colbert will swat Lil’ Markos around like a kitty toy. Especially is he’s subjected himself to the book.
While the BDS is evident, the Comdey Central crew also seem to know a moonbat when they see one. This could be pretty funny or it could be teh suck. I guess we’ll have to watch.
Pablo, they have cunningly trapped you into watching then…
Good man, taking one for the team like that. Please report back. You poor brave soul.
Although I’m no fan of Kos, the link-whoring is getting a little tedious. Assuming that’s one of the many faces of Futurist that’s posting them in what seems to be at least eight out of ten PW comments sections.
Could be just me that’s annoyed by that, though.
It’s not just you…
Hmmm.
*shrug* Hey it’s better than ending up as one of the PowerPuff Girls.
Nope. You are not alone…
1969 is overrated. I couldn’t even get Baez to have sleep sex with me…forget the protest babes.
Uh, … BRAAAAAINS.
Major John,
I’ve been mucking in fever swamps for a long time now. Comedy Central is pretty tame stuff, comparatively. It’s the people who think The Daily Show is really news that you want to keep an eye on.
At any rate, if CC keeps wrapping that stuff around tasty morsels like South Park, Mind of Mencia, and Drawn Together, they’ve got me.
I have to agree with Dean. Colbert does a pretty good job of ripping into the liberal’s wacky ideas too.
It takes a great deal of talent to keep up with Colbert in any way. Kos has no chance. I don’t know him, of course, but I’m guessing he has the sense of humor of a goat.
Should be fun to watch.
OK then – But I’ll still wait for a report, heh heh.
Oh well. At least Kos has nothing to do with WONDER SHOWZEN – although at rate that particular show is going, I have to wonder. Sit in front of TV, laugh till I puke – then spend three hours in bitter self-recrimination for laughing at tasteless, hate-driven junk.
Markos both composes music and plays piano. He has released two albums.
I think there’s a book out there, too.
Ideally, this Colbert Report could turn into a 70s Mike Douglas Talk Show episode with Markos tinkling the keys, answering questions from Colbert, with the two breaking into song periodically during the segment.
~ sigh ~
Mike Douglas.
He could so kick Merv Griffin’s ass.
But Merv Griffin, he’d sneak up on you and inject you with Windex.
Just because he CAN.
Mike Douglas is the kind of guy who’d just as soon slit your throat as entertain you with a heartfelt rendition of an American standard.
That is one cool customer. Tyra Banks got nothing on Mike.
Yeah, but Joan Baez sang pretty good.
Mezzo soprano, maybe? Not lyric. Not contralto.
I like lyric sopranos myself. Emma Kirkby comes to mind.
Seems all the best female singers are lefties.
I’m the Helen Thomas of link whores.
You’re welcome.
Mr Goss wrote:
That’s ‘cause you don’t listen to country!
But Miss Baez does have an absolutely fantastic voice.
Hey, the more people who get to see and hear Kos, the better for the Republican party. With any luck he’ll do for them nationally what he did for the Party in Ohio…
OMG SET YOUR TIVO NOW!!!
Seriously, Kos is not to be missed. He is the perfect archetype of the progressive man. The whiny voice, the diminutive stature, the practiced metrosexuality, the general snotty sense of entitlement… truly, he is God’s gift to our sense of humor. Squander him not! For such a treasure may not be ours again in this lifetime, even if Aubrey de Grey’s most optimistic projections are correct.
Colbert Report  He had Al Franken on a couple weeks back and I was sitting there waiting for someone, ANYONE, to tell a joke. Although Franken had that baffled, angry, uncomprehending snapping-turtle-on-its-back expression down pretty pat…
TallDave…spot on. For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of actually watching Young Markos speak, you’re in for a treat.
Suddenly, the whole thing makes sense. And then you laugh for about 45 minutes. And then you think about mebbe jacking his lunch money. And making him cry. And then you wonder when you turned into such a bully. And then you realize that kos pulled it out of you, from depths you never knew existed. And then you want to give him a swirlie. And smack him around a little…
Hey tough guys! I have an idea – don’t watch it.
Mike DOuglas was a pansy next to Dick Cavett. At least Cavett looked death in the face, right on the air. Granted, not his, but this is an imperfect universe…
For the benefit of Steve Gilliard, a guy who blogs.
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I think we should all get axe handles and go to watch the taping of that Colbert show.
Because that’s just the sort of group-think orchestrated violence you’d expect from readers of Protein Wisdom.
We’d get axe handles.
… and then go to the taping of the Colbert Show.
Steve’s not particularly bright, btw.
A racially aware person who is ‘reality-based’ might consider how many black women enter the Capitol Building without congressional member ID pins on any given day rather than the number of black congresswomen who are in the habit of not wearing their pin?
Or, consider the fact that it’s okay to take off the Member ID pin once you’ve gone through the Security Checkpoint, when making the point that white congressmen (and everybody else) don’t have to wear their pins once past the Capitol checkpoints.
Pablo: At any rate, if CC keeps wrapping that stuff around tasty morsels like South Park, Mind of Mencia, and Drawn Together, they’ve got me.
Mind of Mencia = tasty morsel?
No: Pablo’s credibility = shot.
Brilliant.
I had to make sure turtles had eyelids (because of the blinking!), but yes: Fits to a “T.”
If you’ve ever lived in So Cal, and you’ve ever seen Carlos’ bit with the “Don’t hit the Mexicans running across the freeway” sign bit, you have not lived.
Mencia slaughters sacred cows, wholesale. I’d watch that all day long.
So what, you don’t like Mexicans, Dan? You a RACIST!!!!?
Ever, never… Preview is for pussies.
Mencia slaughters sacred cows, wholesale. I’d watch that all day long.
Sacred cow slaughter, though often enough a salient feature of comedy, is neither necessary nor sufficient for establishing teh funny.
It would be tautological to say that humor must, of necessity, be funny, but I guess it bears emphasising here, as Carlos’ (or should I say Ned’s?) purported witicism unfortunately lacks this one truly necessary comic element.
Duh de duh and git-er-dun: Mencia = unfunny.
So what, you don’t like Mexicans, Dan? You a RACIST!!!!?
Is it that obvious. I hate my mother, too.
BTW… Ned Mencia (aka Ned Holness, aka Carlos Mencia)? German–Honduran. But I guess they’re all “Mexican” in Aztlán, eh?
Oops.
Forgot to add protein wisdom to my blogroll.
Also, I steal jokes.