Video at Hot Air.
Writes Allah:
Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for. Crooks & Liars called the performance “dynamite,†which is close to the truth only insofar as it’s a munitions metaphor. Read Captain Ed for details.
In Colbert’s defense, he might not have been playing for laughs. The dissident posture is very important to our friends on the left; if SC had kept things light and wasted his opportunity to speak “truth†to power, they’d have crucified him for it. As it is, the moonbats will be building statues of him tomorrow. To paraphrase another delusional comedian who wasn’t as funny as he thought he was, better to be Kos for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.
Although, those two aren’t exactly mutually exclusive, are they?
Allah also notes that Editor and Publisher is “swooning” over Colbert’s performance. And Joe Gandelman blames the audience for not appreciating Colbert.
Which is a good point, if you happen to be incapable of recognizing a good point—even were one to crawl up your leg and build a nest in your man patch. While wearing a sandwich board scrawled with the legend “I am a good point.”
That aside, though, Gandelman has a nice roundup of blogospheric response…
My thoughts: the fawning reaction coming from many on the anti-Bush bandwagon is, unfortunately, par for the course these days—as is the celebration of Colbert’s “bravery,” especially when there are no real consequences for engaging in meanspirited political humor other than, say, being thought a dick.
Politically, I think it’s fair to observe that we’ve reached that point of partisan purity wherein a certain activist segment of the American left has decided, en masse, to pretend to believe a whole number of things that are objectively false (including, in this case, Colbert’s genius)—and they have decided to do so in order to build consensus and then use groupthink as a political bludgeon, even it comes at the expense of their integrity and intellectual honesty.
Ends justify the means, man. Ends justify the means…
****
update: see also, Bloggledygook, who also takes on the “bravery” theme.
While I like Colbert on his show, his material was way too filled with the leftist lies that fill the MSM today. Hardly satirical, and hardly funny without the goofy graphics that he has on his show.
I do remember Imus’ bomb 10 years ago. I thought it was funny, but it was over the top hitting at Clinton’s and the MSM elites skeletons which they try so hard to keep hidden in the closet.
TW: The fall of truthiness.
Colbert played the exact humor of his show. Its not what the establishment wants to hear, its not what they think is funny. Its what lets the rest of us handle the establishment.
But Scalia liked part of it.
Most importantly, what is uber-genius Glenn Greenwald’s verdict? His is the only judgment worth noting.
Cordially…
Or maybe, Colbert is a one-trick pony without the depth perception to judge his audience.
dish it but cant take it.
pussy
What about women? They have a woman patch, don’t they? Think good points don’t appreciate a woman patch as well? I know I do.
I’m sure this is just an oversight on your part, Jeff. We all know you aren’t sexist.
Still…….
BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF HUMOR ON THE LEFT!!!!
Colbert = “truthiness” as actus = “sanity.”
What has happened to free speech in this country, when someone like Colbert can’t insult the president to his face on national television? Colbert’s arrest, and his suspicious death while in custody, shame us throughout the world.
A roomful of Washington ‘journalists’ staring subpoeae in the eye watching a comedian from cable TV remind the President why he should be pissed at them. Yep, I’d like to have seen that.
They must have been wondering where those Teamsters were who stuffed Michael Moore in the trunk after his Oscar rant…
Yes, but if he had any firsthand knowledge of that, he wouldn’t be a progressive, would he? In their world, meat comes from the supermarket and women come pre-shaved…
This is why I don’t like computers in elementary schools.
Hmmm…a Mohammed pederastry joke? I can’t fit an actus joke into that, so I’ll leave it alone.
Its ok to say “i’m an idiot.” Its not ok to say “you’re all idiots.”
He’s catching on.
How exactly is that place on a woman not a man patch? Anyway,
BECAUSE OF BUSH!!
Some of the commenters on Gandelman’s site kill me. He’s a comedian, doing a comedy routine that doesn’t get any laughs, but he’s “brilliant” and he didn’t bomb. Oh, and the fact that the audience which you are playing in front of doesn’t share your assumptions (which assumptions are necessary for the jokes to work), yeah, that’s the audience’s fault. Seems like if that had happened in a non-political comedy context, they’d call the comedian tone-deaf.
But, if you just keep re-defining what you’re talking about, eventually you’ll be able to tell yourself about your “victory.”
Sometimes, the monkey doesn’t dance for you cuz he’s got a better idea of what to do.
actus,
Heh.
When I see monkeys being used as rhetorical props in an Actus post, I ask myself, Is this any way to treat a relative?
The daily humor ration has been increased from 3 laughs to 0 laughs.
Doubleplus good!
Keeping in mind that the version I saw was edited, I didn’t get what either side is saying out of it. I wouldn’t say he bombed, exactly. They weren’t falling out of their chairs, but he got some laughs. Nor did I find it over-the-top insulting. On the other hand, it wasn’t the brilliant, cutting edge truth-to-power satire that the libtards are making it out.
My reaction was pretty much, “Eh.”
Interesting how the left canonizes anyone with the “balls” to be a dickhead to people they don’t like. They think being a jerk to a Republican is the moral equivalent of the Nuremburg Trials. This is the same mindset that allows liberals to congratulate themselves for dumping paint on military recruitment centers, destroying anti-abortion memorials, throwing Oreos at black Republicans, etc. It’s just will-to-power iconoclasm, incomprendingly defended as significant dialogue.
This worship of rude, self-righteous iconoclasts has an effect, of course, but certainly not in the edifying “emperor has no clothes” way they envision. They simply contribute to the coarsening and diminishment of the culture, which leaves healthy, free, affluent children feeling disillusioned and existentially persecuted, thus cyclically fueling their desire to lash out crudely at their imagined oppressors.
A few of my friends are comedians‗comics,” they all say, insistent on a distinction no one can explainâ€â€and they all regularly book what used to be called “hell gigs” until non-comedians learned the term. I don’t know what they call them now.
What they are is guaranteed bombs in random supper clubs and sports bars and such, taken so that they’ll face audiences who don’t know or care who they are, or share the worldviews their humor comes from. They do these shows specifically to shock themselves out of the fantasy worlds they’ve built with their usual audiences of too-eager fans, because the laughter of sycophants is ugly and has nothing to do with comedy.
The ugliest audience you can find today (outside a Dane Cook gig) is The Daily Show/Colbert audience. The hosts and crowd have formed such an elaborate fantasy world, a set of prejudices so stringent all-defining that their “humor” is unrecognizable as such to anyone outside, like a KKK joke book. The Colbert character is a caricature of a caricature of a caricature, and maybe Colbert knows itâ€â€I thought so until todayâ€â€but his fans definitely don’t. There are laughs, big ugly ones, but there are no jokes.
(The election year was the point of no return for these guys, but I and the diehard standup fans I know were saying “Remember when Jon Stewart was funny?” ten years before he got a Comedy Central show. And it’s true, I swear it, he was really funny, a really long time ago.)
I said “until today” because it looks like Colbert took a “hell gig” without knowing it. Judging by his quotes afterward, which are like but definitely out of the “Colbert” character, he’s truly mistaken his tiny audience for the world, and he doesn’t know what happened.
If not, he’s not a comedian anymore. And if he’s not a comedian, what are his fans fans of?
Yeah, what Jeff said.
It is brave to walk into a room filled with the most powerful people on the planet and then call them out in a manner that doesn’t make their sides split in laughter.
While I agree that speaking truth to power shouldn’t be a thing that requires bravery, such are the times we live in.
Leftists tend to appropriate identity and form in art, vocation, and ethnic/racial/class/gender/age groups, and reconfigure them to suit their ideological stance. They create groups called Students Against (insert “progressive†cause), Women Against Military Madness, Teachers for yada yada, and so on, in an attempt to redefine (or create) the essential characteristics of the groups as stemming from a shared “progressive†politics. It gives the appearance of majority status and allows them to begin the gradual process of weeding out those that disagree, for by definition they are “inauthentic.â€Â
It’s a type of identity politics that includes form. In other words, a real comedian is one that makes “jokes†that employ “progressive†tropes. A real historian is one that writes presentist histories from a “progressive†perspective.
Everything becomes politicized, even the funny.
Lefist are just tacky, at funerals and at galas.
Can we get back to talking about all the aping at the funeral?
Can we get back to talking about all the aping at the funeral?
racist
Everyone go…ehh…home. LagunaDave wins it.
Okay. The 32% of you, including a cowed MSM audience, can lick your wounds over in your little corner if you think Colbert bombed.
He was “da BOMB.” And you are the debris.
That was particularly evident when the Secret Service swept Colbert out of the room, pushed him to his knees, held him there, and handed Bush a pistol. After cocking the gun and pressing it to Colbert’s head, Bush hissed, “Zer are some sings ve don’t say in front of ze most powerful people on the planet in a manner zat doesn’t make their sides split in laughter. Do ve have an understantink?”
Colbert refused to submit. He spat on Bush’s shoes and announced his duty to stand up for liberty, democracy and freedom of speech–the bedrock principles upon which our once great nation was founded.
Bush bristled at the brave man’s steely resolve. Unlike run of the mill whiney Democrats, (so many of which the President had dispatched in the past to that undisclosed location in the sky) this man was brave. To save his cowboy pride Bush pulled the trigger.
By far the greater man, Colbert died that day. But Bush was a changed man forever. He saw that his opponents had truth on their side and it frightened him. His remaining days in office were few, and a new day in Amerian freedom stood poised on the horizon.
Let us today remember the great brave comedian/martyr, Stephen Colbert. His noble sacrifice, however, marks the path to freedom. Such are the times were live in, and such are our heroes. In these difficult, difficult times.
While I agree that speaking truth to power shouldn’t be a thing that requires bravery, such are the times we live in.
Congratulations. This is the most gobsmackingly-stupid thing I’ve heard this week.
“Speaking truth[*] to power” has always required bravery, everywhere and everywhen throughout human history. EXCEPT for the last couple of hundred years, in a few select places. Right now, “speaking truth to power” in the US is one of the safest occupations there is.
Such are the times we live in, fool.
[*]Why is it that the “truth” spoken to power is never, “You’re doing a great job, power. Keep up the good work!”?
I just read the account at Editor and Publisher. A lot of the material looks pretty damn funny. I’m surprised by this post.
Polls, polls, polls… and Colbert… and John Stewart. It must be humiliating to foist these as substitutes for actual political victories, eh Gary?
Translation: “OMG!!! Colbert Roxx0red all teh Chimpcos!!1!one!!”
*snort*
Beautiful.
Uh, er, that was my beautiful, there. >.<
Steve Colbert is a fantastic comedian; he makes nobody laugh.
You should hear the mute debate team! They ROX!!! Bush is teh Suck!!!
TW: college, oh so ironic on so many levels.
Does nobody see the irony in your blogmaster complaining about somebody being a dick while trying to be funny?
At least Colbert puts his money where his mouth is.. If the people that come on here did the same they wouldn’t have time to type as they would be too busy hunting down the Qaeda in Afghanistan, or better yet, Iraq.
Now I’ll leave this shell of a blog under the assumtion that “Protein Wisdom” means that you know a lot about jerking off.
Won’t see you around! Later!
And there you have it. “Jesse” manages to combine ignorance (You can’t support the war unless you’re actually fighting it–wait, or is it you can’t believe what the soldiers on the ground say because they’re IQ-challenged, jobless dupes?) with childishness (You guys SUCK! I’m taking my ball and going home!)
The perfect liberal.
Were we just put down, or is the Jesse comment simply stupid?
Cordially…
Let’s be real. Colbert was doing his Bill O”Reilly parody for an audience of live audience of Washington pols, media, burueaucrats and hangers on. Colbert took direct shots at them in their presence. A fair number of people at the Hilton seemed to enjoy the act, but I’m sure that many in the crowd found he was hitting way too close to home. And then there were the ones who surely enjoyed the show and decided it was politically prudent to keep it to themselves. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Colbert’s act ridicules fatuous boobs who take themselves very seriously. These types were very thick on the ground around the Capitol Hilton last night. Perhaps they went downstairs to Franny O’Brien’s to grouse about it later…
Then, of course there was the TV audience, the one Colbert, the TV comedian, was really playing to. I found the unendited clip via the Net. It was an extended version of what he does on his show, and he does it fairly well.There were some big laughs and a lot of chuckles. Some jokes fell flat. The number of unreceptive people in the room dampened things. But I remember nights, many nights, when the great Johnny Carson really did bomb, and this was not a bomb. The film with Helen Thomas was a bomb and he would have been well advised to drop it from the act.
That said, if you like Colbert, you liked this. If you are a target of his humor, or a supporter of his targets, you weren’t amused, I’m sure.
Jesse – been there, done that.
Steve Colbert wasn’t particularly funny at one live event. So what? Why the frantic defense of a poor three minute routine by the Left? Cripes, its not like comedians don’t have off nights once in a while.
So I’m in line at the market and this chick with huge honking boobs comes up behind me and gets in line. So I make conversation:
“Hey, how’ya doing?”
And she goes: “Fine, beautiful weather.”
And I see she has a box of Maxipads and so I says: “So, you’re going to be sucking alot of dick this week, huh?”
Just talking…trying to be a nice guy…why are you calling up the manager?…
OOOOOOOOOO!!!! Chickenhawk! Jesse used the chickenhawk meme! Gawrsh, I feels so bad now. I been called a chickenhawk!!!
/parody of what some idiot leftie thinks I am.
Leaving aside the discussion of whether Colbert bombed or not, performing a biting comedy routine for an audience that one has been invited to is hardly bravery. Chutzpah, maybe. Certainly show business. But not bravery.
Brave people—they who put their lives on the line (which Colbert most assuredly did not)—are a precious commodity. Let’s not be dissing those that have “put their money where their mouth is”, and made a genuine sacrifice, eh?
Oh, and Jesse? Get a clue.
Is Jesse’s comment sarcasm, or as dense as a black hole?
Where were you during the Clinton Administration?
I thought it wasn’t bad. It was a roast, essentially, and the roastee was everything political.
I have some problems with the “Colbert is teh Mark Twain” praise he gets but I don’t see a thing really wrong with his “speech” at the dinner. Granted, I only saw the first half (didn’t hold my interest) so apologies if there’s worse content later.
For the record, I often find Colbert funny. And I agree with the roast analogy. But the thing is, when one is the object of a roast, one generally knows it in advance. And there are certain expectations that come with the “roast” that don’t, traditionally, apply to the correspondent’s dinner.
In this case, it’s all about situation and context. What I reacted to was Colbert’s obvious attempt to try for strokes from the Kos crowd while sticking his thumb in the eye of the Bush and co in a way that was more mean than strictly funny.
As for the remarks of heet and Jesse…well, again, a snapshot of the modern lefty “activist” type: their comments are predictably rife with fallacies and show no interest whatever in dealing with the arguments of the post. In this case, the chosen fallacies are ad hominem, red herring, and tu quoque.
Personally, I’d think it would get tiring trolling around “wingnut” blogs dropping tired little turds, but then, I’m not Jesse or heet. Who knows? Maybe they don’t have much else to do.
Remember when President Clinton had that guy arrested for shouting “Clinton sucks” at him? Now that was funny, right actus? They probably beat him goooood! Ha, haw, haw, haw!
Teh gooood timezzz!
The concensus, noting the leftie and rightie comments, seems to be that Colbert was “Margaret Cho” funny. Meaning not funny, but making social statements to sets some folks to vibrating like tuning forks.
And I’m sorry to include Cho and vibrating in the same sentence. But I press on.
Cordially…
Where were you during the Clinton Administration?
For one thing, I was laughing at Dave Barry columns which, in early ‘93, were referring (ironically) to “the failed Clinton administration”. They were funny because the press was, indeed, treating the infant Clinton administration as if it were already a failure.
The press in the US always has an adversarial relationship to the administration. Then, though, (with a couple of exceptions) it was nothin’ personal, just business. Now it’s plumb deranged.
Also, back then, comedians simply ribbed, teased, taunted, or mocked Clinton. They didn’t break their arms patting themselves on the back speaking Truth to Power, man, or congratulating themselves for their brave dissent in the face of KKKlinton’s jackbooted thugs.
Aww gee, Jeff, that hurts. If you’ll notice, I was addressing the arguments in your post by calling you a wimpering hypocrite. You havn’t addressed my point… How can someone who writes from such a bitchy, rude core complain about somebody for being meanspirit1qa
I, for one, love self-defecating humor like Jesse’s and actus.
We made sure to run when we were protesting during the Clinton years.
Heet,
Look up “tu quoque.” I think that was directed at you.
Tell the truth, actus. Your mommy picked you up and then she ran.
…or she drove him to soccer practice in her minivan. Whatever though.
We made sure to run when we were protesting during the Clinton years.
Yeah, it’s funny, but back then, when I was displaying the “highest form of patriotism,” I was often dismissed as a “hater.”
What changed?
Cordially…
And that was what was wrong with it, it wasn’t clever, it wasn’t “ironic”, it wasn’t satire. It was the same old tired ass, over the top bullshit you can hear at any anti-everything rally ad naseum.
Exactly, it was nowhere near as original or as funny as Bush bashing himself, and that seems pretty damn sad to me. I mean the moonbats should be embarassed that Bush is better at Bush bashing than they are.
Bogus Bush basher betters Bush bashing, beggars bona fide Bush bashers.
“This is why I don’t like computers in elementary schools.”
Or evolution in high schools.
I’ll be sure to tip you children well.
Yup, that’s me, Mr. Flying Spagetti Monster himself. Is this a new troll or did one of actus’ turds learn to work his pc?
Yeah, B Moe, lots of Bible thumpers here.
Evidently bypassing English 101 on the way to law skool, the irony of which is evidently no less than that of a diseased, humorless, self-hating Brazilian strumpet trying to remain pertinent among polite society.
Is ‘you fucking idiot’ actually a proper sentence?
I don’t know if my school offered a 101 in english. Our protests were mostly about the CDA and bosnia/Iraq, which were after 101 times anyhoo.
WTF? What the hell did you just say? Engrish, do you speak it, muthafucka?
Hooray. The language nazis arrived.
That’s what happens when you engage in chronic question-begging and deflection. The only value you end up having is as a punching bag.
Try to stay in character, okay?
LOL!
Squealing? For his majesty King Georgie the IVth?
The main reason you Rightards didn’t laugh is there wasn’t a laughtrack for you lemmings to follow. The Stephen Colbert I know and love was there for all of you to see and hear and laugh with! If you had just listened very closely there was plenty of laughter…. You just didn’t “get it”. (As he would say: “…it’s French, bitch.”)
The perception that it “wasn’t funny” was from the fact he roasted EVERY filthy Repug and their failure policies (I call it cremation.) …and you all were the “butt of the joke”.
It can also be said that it was and is “Pearls before Swine”. Swine do not laugh and as we all can observe from your whining they certainly can squeal.
best to my fellow Rightarded Americans!
~g.
Interesting mix here. Hadn’t noticed before.
Watched the entire Colbert performance, twice.
It was sharp, audience-appreciated, especially
the cutaways, and quite expected, considering
the venue. The laugh balance versus the subject
was interesting. I liked the comment above that
some people there would probably liked to laugh
louder but were afraid to, due to job constraints,
like ever getting invited to a press briefing again.
Colbert gets a pretty A-list guest roll, if you’ve
been watching his show. I do. He’s challenging
Stewart, who gets too poo-poo humor sometimes.
His audience are modern children, and they are
products of a crappy society. As are some of
the more poisonous commenters. You know who
you are. You don’t care.
he roasted EVERY filthy Repug and their failure policies (I call it cremation.) …and you all were the “butt of the jokeâ€Â.
So sayeth a proud member of the Reality-based Community and Party of Tolerance(tm)
Is it any wonder so many of the are willing apologists for Islamists?
We’re “lemmings” now? I thought we were Bushbots. Did someone issue a new FRAGO, and I didn’t get a copy?
Translation: Achtung! Slow-motion train-of-thought wreck to follow.
Oh, no, we got it…unlike some of the trolls, we Jesus-botherers speaky english good. Like we get ‘roasting’ oh-so-cleverly becomes ‘cremation’…ooooooo, you should send a tape to Colbert himself and get a job writing comedy. I luv how the cliche, ‘Pearls before Swine’ is included (yay! SASE* to Comedy Central for that tape, btw!) and somehow transmogrified into pigs laughing and then squealing!
You’re on your way, Reggie!
Thanks for noticing AND absolving us of responding. We–truly–do not care.
*Self-Addressed, Stamped Envelope
Ahh, damn. That might have been friendly fire on Otvos…sorry. So, I’ll just say twenty obligatory “screw acti” and xour’s a moron and beg forgiveness from Jeff, patron saint of Armadillo pron, and Dear Leader Boosh.
There was a lot of discussion about the degree of Stewart suckage after the Oscars. The general consensus was that Hollywood found it much easier to laugh when Billy Crystal poked fun at them than when outsider Stewart did. Similarly, there was a publisher’s event which Stewart hosted to quite a bit of audience discomfort. Seems Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter was unable to laugh at himself when Stewart poked fun at the Paris Hilton cover, even though Carter strikes me as a fun-lovin’ guy (those jeans! that hair!).
It’s hard to laugh all that hard when you think the person making fun of you doesn’t like you, or respect you, or is actually being serious.
On NPR I heard an interview with one of Stewart/Colbert’s writers. He said there were no conservatives on the show, although there are several jews because some jokes only work coming from a jew. I think that’s interesting, and perhaps a little applicable to the audience’s mood last night.
JeffS,
Indeed, you did miss FRAGO 17 to OPORD 005 “Operation Darth Chimpy”. Shoot me an e-mail on AKO-S, and I’ll make sure you get a copy.
Please spare me the lesson on rhetoric. You’ve been reading this site, right? Any calls for proper argument technique are ridiculous. This is a free for all ego-fest and zinger contest.
Sure. I’m also going to spare myself your insufferable and always hostile comments.
Bye.
The first minute or so of the video I was actually wondering if I’d gotten a faulty recording or something – I figured it couldn’t be that quiet.
Considering the material though, to be expected.
Colbert was screwed the minute he botched the first or second joke.
The first thing it needed to be was comedy and Colbert’s seltzer bottle misfired. Beginning a bit that short with having to retell the joke you just porked cannot be a lot of fun. Aside from that, you’ve got the President and Karl Rove looking at you while you try and get back to the business of making wisecracks at said President’s expense.
Oh, and said President just killed them.
That’s a tough room. Karl fucking Rove. Right there. Smiling at you…
acturd scrapes a dull razor blade across both wrists:
Speaking of engrish, is it proper use to suggest that you love hating yourself or is that a contradiction?
You seem to be running around naked from the waist down, fantasizing that you’re 3 again, hoping somebody’ll come along and slap the hell out of you all over again.
Did I miss a genocide joke or something? He was pretty much doing the same material Bush did. You know, poking fun at George Bush.
First they didn’t laugh hard enough at the comic they’d hired to make fun of them…
blah blah blah….
Then they came for me.
Nazis.
Pot, kettle, black.
zing!!!!
MAJ John, check AKO-S in the morning. In gratitude, I attached some interesting hi-res satellite shots of Pamela Anderson whilst sunbathing in the nude. They’re about 15 years old, and thus worthwhile.
Zinger contest? Dang. Thought you were going to say winger contest. We need a new group of trolls that keep playing to type.
Of course, painting a target on yourself invites a zinger contest.
yes, colbert isn’t funny. keep saying it, and maybe it will come true! and maybe fuzzy bunnies that shit candy will shoot out of my ass!
please, name anyone out of the 32% of you hangers-on-to-the-magic-that-is-the-bushwonder that are funny. just one famous comedian from your side that is funny in any way.
no really – please. I’ll sit here waiting until I hear it.
forgot to mention:
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
go wet your wittle beds, and hope that the ‘vice’ (love that word) preznit and his wittle helper georgie will keep you safe from traitorous funnymen who make up words like ‘truthiness’.
did anyone ever notice ‘decider’ is not a real word either? what a fuckin moran.
Game over.
Or Perhaps not
I wonder why this non-event is even news worthy…
Oh yeah I forgot Colbert IS the new Dan Raâ„¢her…
Now Al Gore, hes a real comedian…why didn’t they book Al Gore?
Indeed. You’re right.
And some can’t draw either.
SEE GUYS IT’S FUNNY BC IT’S A MEME
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO COLBERT
YOU ARE ON THE PATH TO DESTRUCTION
WINGNUTS HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME
He’s in jail for speaking truth to power, just like Colbert’s gonna be.
Really, I was afraid for him when he started saying all those things. Like many other fans of Colbert’s comedy genius, I spent the whole time watching that clip curled in a ball and shaking with fear that he’d be silenced while he was up there because Bush is beyond satire and nothing ever penetrates his echo chamber and that’s why Colbert was so funny.
—
Dammit. Snarking on the left is still boring as it ever was. :/
There’s a transcript here if you feel like reading something painfully banal.
The left have to call him brave, because with material like that, they sure as hell can’t call him funny.
No way, Mike. He was funny, SO funny. All that material was fresh and new, and he told it to the President’s face! Wow, I bet Bu$h never heard THAT before. Did you like how I changed the S to a dollar sign? I just thought of that. It references how angry I am at this corrupt screw-up of an aDUMBinistration. (<— That was what we like to call a “joke”, wingnuts, not that you’d ever know one, HA HA HA HA)
Also, did you know that “Decider” is a made up word like “Truthiness”? That’s part of the Steven Colbert Genius, right there, making verbs into nouns for people too stupid to know what verbs and nouns are. Just ask Prozacula, Lord of the Depression Pills. I can’t wait to see the look on Prozac’s Enligsh teacher’s face when he tells that kneeslapper tomorrow in homeroom.
uh, “enligsh” was part of the persona there, heh.