Colbert at the White House Correspondent's Dinner

Why don't you say you didn't like it a third time? This time maybe in the form of a ballet?

[Edited on May 01, 2006 by Clov]

Good description of Colbert's performance

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the "I know you are, but what am I?" strategy...

Sorry, but if I stood in front of a sitting president and was told to make fun of him, I'd shit my pants regardless of the consequences or lack thereof. It's hard to do that with anybody, if you bomb at best you end up looking like a loser and at worst you say something that gets blown out of proportion and ends up costing you your job.

Ask Bill Maher what that's like.

[Edited on May 01, 2006 by AceTracer]

But it was all in good fun!

Funny as hell. And for all that, Bush and his douchebag cronies laughed and laughed and laughed.

Dumbass probably didn't get it...

Wow... bias in it's pure, untainted form. It's almost as if you believe the president wrote his own stuff... himself!

Funny thing is, as far as the president's part of the evening... no one's talking. Except you, of course.

Did you even read past the first paragraph? You know, like down where not one fucking respondent agreed with him? Or with you, for that matter.

What did you do? Google "Bush funnier than Colbert" and post the first thing you found from a "liberal" source?

[Edited on May 02, 2006 by skeptik]

and yet Libs everywhere are pissing and moaning about Colbert's donkey of a set being ignored

I think I googled "colbert bombed" - because that was the impression I got watching him.

Colbert started badly, finished abismally and only got polite laughter for his jokes inbetween.

The jokes themselves were fairly obvious jibes - the kind of things comedians do every day. It was unchallenging, but Liberal tunnel vision builds it up as a triumph of comedic genius.

Some dork has even started a "thank you colbert" website!!!

Partisan loyalty and political emotion is clouding your collective judgement.

Talk about the emporer's new clothes.

Of course you could fire back the same accusation at me, except Bush was HARDER on himself than Colbert was and Bush got more laughs with the audience (many of whom were downright hostile towards him, politically).

You say "bombed" I say mixtures of "confused", "uncomfortable", "hostile", and "laughing their ass off". Oddly enough, I'd give good money that Scalia was rolling the whole time, not just during the part directed at him. He apparently has a good sense of humor.

Alright he didn't TOTALLY Bomb, but there were embarrassed silences at times. This was due to lack of humour rather than lack of tact.

I'll be generous and say Colbert's speech had its funny moments, but it was, at best, average.

Liberal perspectives on its relative merits are totally skewed on this because of their abject hatred of Bush and their admiration for Colbert's "bravery" (although not too many people are commenting on the bravery of Bush to invite a critic).









[Edited on May 02, 2006 by UpTight]

The WHCA organizes the dinners and picks the featured speaker.

[Edited on May 02, 2006 by pingz]

Says you. Even if the people at the dinner really didn't find it funny though, his performance still can't be called a failure unless you're operating on the assumption that they were his entire intended audience, and I highly doubt that.

I watched it last night. Amazing.

Are you all arguing over whether something was funny or not? Because that's about the lowest bulletin board argument possible. Why don't you just discuss whether Colbert or Bush is more Hitler-like? For fuck's sake...

Honestly I don't think that's what's behind the arguement at all. Those are just the words.

Personally, it's just nice to notice when you're recognising cognitive dissonance on such an obvious subject. Example being that you could feel the audience cringing at most of Colbert's jabs because of how many issues he was able to cover in single lines, such as (my personal favorite):

"The president believes Wednesday, what he believed on Monday... regardless of what happened Tuesday."

...or the bit about "powerfully staged photo-ops."

Doesn't particularly matter whether or not you find those lines funny, or unfunny, or what. What matters is that every Bush supporter out there seems to be relentlessly avoiding any commentary on the underlying truth in the remarks by dismissing it as base, or cutting it from re-broadcast.