Zomftassi!!1 Did You See Colbert At The Whcad?!!

[Ramo]

I disagree. I do think that he primarly wanted to make people laugh. He just had a different audience in mind.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Ramo
I disagree. I do think that he primarly wanted to make people laugh. He just had a different audience in mind.

And he seems to have made that audience laugh, too, judging from today's reports.

Reminds me of the time David Letterman hosted the Oscars and spent the whole show making fun of Hollywood. The folks in the auditorium hated it; everyone I know who watched it at home just about died laughing. If there's one thing Washington and Hollywood have in common, it's that they take themselves far more seriously than anyone else takes them.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner: Yearly circlejerk held for the White House Press Corp where they pat each other on the back, eat escargot, drink fine wines, and line up to fellate the president.

Which is why any "field" journalist worth his or her salt doesn't give a sh*t about said dinner.

Gatekeeper

[mindseye]

Stephen Colbert has monumentally enormous balls.

Wow, that was incredible - amazing and funny at the same time. For a president who famously cannot abide criticism, and is accustomed to appearing only before crowds of oath-signing party faithful, it must have been difficult indeed to personally accept such a scorching public smackdown. You could see the expression on his face change from jovial to DOUR (CSPAN stopped doing reaction cuts after the presidential face fell).

It's no surprise the general press isn't mentioning it, the White House correspondants took quite a shellacking, you could hear their shame in every embarassed, uncomfortable silence.

It took a while to download the video, but it was worth it alone to see someone return a Sicilian "bird" to Supreme Court Embarassment Scalia.

Here's a site someone put up for people to post "thank yous" to Colbert for having the guts to deliver such a scorching address right to the president's face. So far about 20,000 people have left messages, currently posting at about ten a minute. That's not bad for a story that has gone virtually unreported.

[mindseye]

Originally posted by Ramo

Bridge's Bush impersonation was the lamest, tamest, blandest [contemporary] SNL-type "humor."

The New York Times "White House Letter" covered the lame Bush impersonator in great detail, but made no mention at all, not a single word, of Colbert's scathing address. I could find no mention at the Washington Post, either.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by mindseye


The New York Times "White House Letter" covered the lame Bush impersonator in great detail, but made no mention at all, not a single word, of Colbert's scathing address. I could find no mention at the Washington Post, either.

Dan Froomkin has a very extensive column/blog entry about it; I don't think it appears in the print edition, though:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/05/01/BL2006050100680.html

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Yeah, that's priceless. By coincidence, I watched All the President's Men last night with my daughter, and then had to explain why journalism wasn't like that anymore.

I'd explain that it was never like that in reality, but it was fantasies like that which help explain Dan Rathers ego.

[Arrian]

Heh. Colbert ripped everyone there, and they all just pretend he wasn't even there. THAT's funny.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

-Arrian

[Japher]

now we know what happened to Ned

[Vesayen]

To quote John Stewart it was "Ballsalicious"

[-Jrabbit]

Colbert was using the dinner to further his rep as a no-holds-barred satirist. His constituency is NOT the press corps or the administration.

With this bit, he has solidified himself as the voice of the (dissatisfied) people. He's not a journalist, he's a comedian. When the pundits say he bombed, it's their way of saying they hated him without sounding like poor sports.

The live bit itself was great. The taped press conference bit was kinda lame.

[Dinner]

Colbert has said good comedy is designed to make people a bit uncomfortable and to make them think. Yes, you want people to laugh but you also want them to come away realizing there are things they'd never looked at before.

Colbert was histerical and it was designed to lampoon those lazy sons of *****es reporters who don't bother to take the administration to task because they're afraid of getting locked out if they push to forcefully. He did that and he made the people at home laugh their asses off.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Oerdin
He did that and he made the people at home laugh their asses off.

Is this thing actually televised on a network station somewhere?

[Jon Miller]

if Comedy Central is smart it would..

JM

[Vesayen]

One thing is for certain;

Colbert will likley be audited every year for the rest of his life lol.