Posted on 05/02/2006 11:07:14 AM PDT by MC Miker G
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.
Take my wafer. Please.
Ba-dum-bump.
If he'd simply suggested that Peter Jennings was under Bubba's desk, he's have hit a bullseye. ;^)
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
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...?
I thought he was pretty good.
The video is on "break.com"
Here's the first part:
http://www.break.com/index/colbert1.html
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?
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
It may be a generational or geographical thing. But I've never hung out with guys who would describe something as "balls-alicious".
No, I've read hundreds of posts at Democratic Underground that thought Colbert's performance was hilarious and pure genius.
Do you think the White House hired Colbert? The President was a guest at the function, not the host.
Do you think the White House hired Colbert? The President was a guest at the function, not the host.
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.
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".
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