colbert.

[FondestMemory]

did anybody see colbert's speech at the correspondent's dinner?

funny shit. he was absolutely brutal to bush and the press.

completely ballsy.

if you didn't see it, i'm sure it'll be on youtube at some point, or reran on cspan.

[hugsandchrisses]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v1sxGj5UxI&search=colbert%20speech


theres a clip of it, pretty funny stuff.

[IAPAI]

Colbert has mad balls.. Burning Bush right to his face like that is not something a lot of people would be able to do, and yet he was still getting laughs from the crowd..

[fedhed7]

Wow. That guy's got balls.

[CutsLikeDrugS]

Stephen Colbert is a national treasure.

[A picasso blue]

Wow. That guy's got balls.
I know. he says it himself every epsiode haha

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he's been having better guests than Jon Stewart lately


all Stewart's had recently is Tom Sellek and Robin Williams :(

[histrionics22]

He's Jon Stewart before Stewart got a vagina.

[Trainsaw]

hahaha i love him

[Trainsaw]

here's some more of it

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He's Jon Stewart before Stewart got a vagina.
what??

[aminorthreat55]

here's some more of it
Where's some more of it?

[Trainsaw]

Where's some more of it?
my retardedness http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html

[aminorthreat55]

my retardedness http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html
Sweet. I showed it to my mom and she loved it, but then again she gave Bush the middle finger the other day.

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theres more? the youtube clip was pretty long itself

[histrionics22]

what??

Remember when the daily show wasn't political? Yea I liked it better.

[FondestMemory]

theres more? the youtube clip was pretty long itself

the whole thing is like 26 minutes long. his speech is fairly long, then he showed a video.

[boysdontcry17]

jon stewart is better than stephen colbert. but stephen has balls. jon is classier.

[preppyak]

the whole thing is like 26 minutes long. his speech is fairly long, then he showed a video.
hah, Helen Thomas, always good stuff

he's been having better guests than Jon Stewart lately

all Stewart's had recently is Tom Sellek and Robin Williams :(
I liked Robin Williams as a guest on The Daily Show, it was pretty funny stuff.

[Brownpants06]

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1686945/ part 1

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1686946/ part 2

http://www.collegehumor.com/movies/1686947/ part 3


anyone else think he looks like bob saget

[nivek87]

i saw this. colbert is my hero.

[A picasso blue]

hah, Helen Thomas, always good stuff


I liked Robin Williams as a guest on The Daily Show, it was pretty funny stuff.
it was funny how he acted like the typical Robin Williams mockery of himself. with the ADHD antics and the weird voice impersonations.


i think Stewart thought it was annoying too

[commatosa]

Stephen Colbert has mastered the art of sarcasm and mockery. Sheer brilliance. Because there's absolutely no way to refute anything he said. All he did was repeat a bunch of stuff the administration has said and made everyone realize how stupid it is. he's brilliant.

[Frank Giaramita]

Stephen Colbert has mastered the art of sarcasm and mockery. Sheer brilliance. Because there's absolutely no way to refute anything he said. All he did was repeat a bunch of stuff the administration has said and made everyone realize how stupid it is. he's brilliant.
I second this.

[aminorthreat55]

Ted Leo gave had some excellent comments regarding this whole thing:
I'm sure, by now, you've all seen Stephen Colbert's speech at the White House Correspndents' Press Dinner, right? Did you also see that tonight it got yanked off of YouTube? (You can still see it at C-SPAN and watch, listen, download, and read the transcript at Democracy Now, of course)
Did you also see all that amazing coverage of it - the keynote speech of the evening - in all the major news outlets? No, of course you didn't see that, and of course I don't need to tell you why...
But here's a thing - I had a discussion with someone about how uneasy it made them feel because they have this latent "thing" about disrespecting the Office of the Presidency, and this may have crossed into that territory (for this person). Like Stephen, I didn't think too much about my response - I checked my gut, and just started typing - so forgive me if this doesn't live up to the highest levels of political discourse, but as I often like to do here, I figure that if I'm talking about something with one person, there are probably many more who I could be talking about the same thing with, so I decided I'd put my response up here. A little embarrassing in its earnestness, maybe, but that's never stopped me in the past, so...
I understand your unease, but remember that this man is, among other things, a callous crook and a MURDERER for knowingly placing thousands of Americans in death's sights, with no just cause.
Should the Pope be respected if he were found to have abused little boys, simply because he's the Pope?
The man and the office can dignify each other - raise each other up. But they can also drag each other down.
We all willingly subject ourselves to authority to maintain a social order, but when those authorities are corrupt, THEY destroy that social order. There's a covenant implicit (and EXPLICIT) in our Constitution, and when a citizen breaks that covenant, he or she is punished by the government. Should the government get off easier? Only God, if you believe in that concept like that, is beyond our human questions. A dirty little man is a dirty little man - he wasn't born in his office - he was born a bloody little mess like the rest of us, and his now being IN that office, doesn't make him any more than the man that he is. We're conditioned to believe that pomp and circumstance make a man a king - or impart some power or authority that derive from his essence - but that power and authority derive from the external institutions that establish the parameters of that person's authority and from we citizens' tacit acceptance of, in most cases, and active voting for, in rare others, those established parameters. When those parameters are breached, we have every right to call for a change in the status quo. But of course, it's not that easy. We're conditioned to obey, we like our lives, etc. - that's how this guy got re-elected. When it comes down to it, we have no voice. I don't write anti-war songs expecting the halls of power to ring with them - I write to energize ordinary people (including myself) to try to live our lives better, in hopes that fruit will bear somewhere much further down the vine. What Stephen Colbert achieved was an amazing feat of ACCESS - access for US ALL. He did what we sit in our living rooms and rant about wishing we could do (and he did it with a sharpness that not many of us could, even given the opportunity).
Anyway, put simply, whether or not the man reflects the office, the office ALWAYS reflects the man. And when the man is this bad, the office should not be a shield.
Sorry for the rant from my living room...
xo -- Teddy

[FreshyFresh23]

I think it was brilliant as well.

That was a nice little blurb from Ted Leo.

Colbert is quickly surpassing Stewart in my eyes as a political satirist. Stewart, though, benefitted a lot from Colbert as a writer on his show. Both are great though