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Jon Stewart Defends Colbert's Dinner Speech
Editor & Publisher ^ | May 2, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 05/02/2006 11:07:14 AM PDT by MC Miker G

NEW YORK Probably to no one's surprise, Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "Daily Show," hailed the performance of his stablemate Stephen Colbert at Saturday night's White House Correspondents dinner. Colbert's lampooning of the president and the press has generated a good deal of praise and criticism.

"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said. "Apparently he was under the impression that they'd hired him to do what he does every night on television" -- that is, make fun of conservatives, public officials, and the press in the guise of an O'Reillyesque talk show host.

"We've never been prouder of him, but HOLY ----," Stewart added.

He also described the annual dinner as "where the President and the press corps consummate their loveless marriage."

Colbert then followed Stewart, on his own show, "The Colbert Report," describing the "honor of appearing" at the big dinner. He said the room was full of "power players," so he "fit right in."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: colbert; comedy; comedycentral; liberals; traitors; treason; whcadinner
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To: ItsForTheChildren

Imus so shocked and insulted the Toons and their sycophants in the media that the next year, Al Franken was invited to pour his unfunny, but safely liberal, act all over them.


61 posted on 05/02/2006 11:38:00 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: cccp_hater
He would get about the same response telling Jesus jokes in the vatican.

Take my wafer. Please.

Ba-dum-bump.

62 posted on 05/02/2006 11:38:52 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: OldFriend
Remember IPUS suggesting the Peter Jennings had an intern under his desk.

If he'd simply suggested that Peter Jennings was under Bubba's desk, he's have hit a bullseye. ;^)

63 posted on 05/02/2006 11:42:23 AM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) ("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
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To: hoosierboy

Why do people keep saying we need to be able to laugh at ourselves, as if somehow, if we could do so, we would have found Colbert hysterically funny. I don't understand what that comment even means. The jokes weren't about me (or you). They just weren't particularly funny, to me (and obviously I'm not the only one). If you found them funny, good for you, you didn't waste your time listening to it. But, just because someone else didn't, has nothing to do with their lack of ability to laugh at themselves.
Now...maybe you meant something else. In that case...never mind.
susie


64 posted on 05/02/2006 11:43:19 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: mnehrling

No... it was very funny. It shows that our president doesn't take these polls or crazy MSMs seriously.

Seems to me I recall the one with Clinton...they showed some video and every two minutes a poodle humping people's legs...symbolic of our president in office then.

You tell me, which of the two was the most inappropriate...?


65 posted on 05/02/2006 11:44:30 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: mnehrling

I thought he was pretty good.


66 posted on 05/02/2006 11:45:25 AM PDT by Gone GF
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To: mnehrling
"..am I the only one that thought he was funny?""

Jon Stewart is funny but not Colbert, to me...


But you don't invite a satirist who makes fun of politicians to a roast of the President and expect him to talk about the weather
67 posted on 05/02/2006 11:46:06 AM PDT by gondramB (He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
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To: altura

The video is on "break.com"

Here's the first part:

http://www.break.com/index/colbert1.html


68 posted on 05/02/2006 11:49:09 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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To: MeanWestTexan

why don't you just stone me instead??

It would hurt for a while, but hearing that guy would destroy brain cells.

Do you know if the bit with Bush and his double is still on a video somewhere?


69 posted on 05/02/2006 11:53:28 AM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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To: MC Miker G

I thought the point of the speech is to be a roast, and in that Colbert did pretty well. He wasn't nice to the press either, but Bush appeared to be a good sport.


70 posted on 05/02/2006 11:53:56 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: mnehrling

He was sporatic, but its just like his show and his show is pretty damn sarcastically funny. The end bit with Helen Thomas sucked. Overall the comedian was hit of miss and Bush killed, funny as hell. Would haev been better if he just let the imposer play him while Bush stayed at home and phoned in to check on him.


71 posted on 05/02/2006 12:01:37 PM PDT by Bommer
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To: brytlea

We have to laugh at ourselves, and find the humor in all things. People who laugh live longer and have lower blood pressure. They now have in hospitals laugh therapy to help people with conditions. I dont want to be some recluse going thru life just getting mad at people. The guy is a comedian and all jokes have a hint of truth in them. The press corps is a buch of stuff shirts who think that their sh*t doesn't stink. Take david gregory for example. For them not to laugh at colbert is funny enough, after all they were the ones who invited him!


72 posted on 05/02/2006 12:02:01 PM PDT by hoosierboy (I am not a gun nut, I am a firearm enthusiast)
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To: hoosierboy

You strung a whole lot of phrases together in your post to me, and I'm sure you've heard them all somewhere, but , I don't agree with all of them (there really are things that aren't funny, bet you can think of a few if you try). Just because someone didn't think that particular bit was funny, or doesn't care for that type of humor doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humor. Please tell me you're not the sort who thinks that people who don't laugh at what you laugh at are somehow humorless.
Oh, and not all jokes have a hint of truth in them. Honest.
I'm glad you're not going to be a recluse and be mad at people because that really isn't healthy.


susie


73 posted on 05/02/2006 12:17:48 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I don't know about the "good sport" stuff. Granted, he wasn't petulant like Clinton during Imus, but he did not look amused.

Even though I thought he was funny, when MSNBC put up the splitscreen with W. in the corner, I couldn't stop cringing.


74 posted on 05/02/2006 12:22:25 PM PDT by MC Miker G
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To: MC Miker G
"It was balls-alicious," Stewart said.

It may be a generational or geographical thing. But I've never hung out with guys who would describe something as "balls-alicious".

75 posted on 05/02/2006 12:23:04 PM PDT by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
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To: mnehrling
..am I the only one that thought he was funny?

No, I've read hundreds of posts at Democratic Underground that thought Colbert's performance was hilarious and pure genius.

76 posted on 05/02/2006 12:30:10 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Mmm! The tears of unfathomable sadness! Yummy!)
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To: trubluolyguy

Do you think the White House hired Colbert? The President was a guest at the function, not the host.


77 posted on 05/02/2006 1:40:58 PM PDT by alnick
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To: alnick

Do you think the White House hired Colbert? The President was a guest at the function, not the host.



Keep reading.


78 posted on 05/02/2006 1:42:32 PM PDT by trubluolyguy (It wasn't the spikes that kept Him on the cross.)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker
No, I thought he was funny, too. Humor always contains an element of truth and in D.C., too much truth is deadly.

Which is exactly why his material wasn't funny. It was based on the premise that the delusional left is correct. There was very, very little truth in what he said.

I did get a chuckle out of D.C. being a chocolate city with a marshmallow middle. The rest of it bombed, very badly -- and he had a mostly friendly audience.

79 posted on 05/02/2006 1:44:46 PM PDT by alnick
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To: MC Miker G

He wasn't going after the press in that section; he was going after the President and conservatives. Read it. It basically says that we want to block the press from telling people about how we torture prisoners and secretly wiretap citizens' phone calls and that we want to keep global warming a secret, yada, yada, yada. Old Media agrees with Colbert on those issues, and Colbert knows it. He also knows they're busily putting out their propaganda on those topics and is implying that we on the right would prefer they take a break from their "watchdog duties".


80 posted on 05/02/2006 1:52:01 PM PDT by alnick
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