Posted on 05/02/2006 11:38:41 AM PDT by JerseyDvl
A thank you site dedicated to Hero worship and praise for left leaning non-comedian Stephen Colbert. I FReeped it and put in a few sarcastic "Thank you's" of my own and thought others might like to do the same. At the very least it is entertaining to see what the linguini spined Liberals consider a Hero. Is it a Soldier who defends all of our freedoms?...NO Could it be a life saving doctor?...OF course not! How about a geek using his fifteen minutes to act liking an idiot and read Democratic talking points?? BINGO!!
BTTT
Why can't they get somebody funny like PJ O'Rourke?
Colbert is an arseclown, just like the other arseclowns that support him.
So, if chuckles and his fellow bozos wish to sign a petition and show their support...Let them. They're just providing the pharmacuetical industry fodder for additional anti-depressent and anti-phsycotic drugs.
Kooks all. Colbert will get his, Jon Stewart will get his, Katie Couric will get hers...all will get their comeupence in time.
Stephen: you're not funny and never have been.
Let's hope they extend Affirmative Action to mundane funnymen so you'll always have a job....
Because liberals aren't capable of being funny when they discuss politics.
Liberals sense of humor is sarcastic hatefilled making fun of those they are threatened by. No wonder---they don't have much going for them in terms of smarts or skill or intelligent thought. No--Let's just make fun of people. hahahahahaha!!
Pathetic. Frankly that is one of the easiest things to do Stephen!!!
Steven Colbert was as critical of the press as he was of the President, and when a comedian is invited to speak before the White House Press Corps, why would one think he would not lampoon both? I am very conservative and watch Colbert on a regular basis, and find him hilarious. People need to get a life before they get so outraged that a guy would have the temerity to criticize the elitist in the media, and a president who, although I support him, seems to have lost his way. It is ok in your view for the President to get up and make fun of himself, but not for Colbert to do the same thing?
Besides, I'll always like Colbert for his convention coverage, where at the end of the Democrat convention he said in a depressed tone, "That's three days of my life I'll never get back."
I get where you're coming from, but I think the WHPC dinner isn't the time or place for the type of "humor" Colbert displayed, it's more good-natured and self-effacing, and not meant to be your chance to nail the President and his policies to the wall. Secondly, you have to be funny, and Colbert wasn't.
I agree with these sentiments because he wasn't supposed to be using this as the bully pulpit.
He went very light on the "Press" and showed an irreverence that only Air America can appreciate.
Let's see him try this tone regularly on his faux show and see how long it lasts.
I thought he was so funny I watched him on c-span again when they replayed it. The fact he got no laughs in that room was the funniest thing of all. If you watched c-span they showed all these horses ass 'journalists' coming into the Hilton and posing for pictures like it was the Oscars or something. The President is not the only one I think who has lost his sense of reality, the press who travels with him is in the same bubble.
Not in the act I saw. He kept repeating that the press is bad for America, but his intent (though unsuccessful IMO) was to skewer conservatives, not the press.
He thinks that's funny because his premise is that the press is good for America, so his pretending to be conservative and repeating that the press is bad for America is supposed to be comical.
The same with his bit about reality having a liberal bias. Again, he was making fun of conservatives who complain about the (very real) liberal bias in the media. His premise is that the media simply reports on reality, and as a pretend conservative he must claim that reality has a liberal bias.
Of course he is liberal, but he does not hide that fact. His humor is biting and edgy, but it is humor. I saw an interview he did with the Democratic Gov or Illinois that was just classic, and I have seen him take apart other liberal dems as well. He is a comedian, and when we start getting so bent out of shape about comedy, we are in trouble as a country. Talk about thin skin. yeesh
Let's see him try this tone regularly on his faux show and see how long it lasts.
I found it the same tone he does use on his show, which is why I watch it only occasionally (depending on the guest). This was his standard - anyone who hired him for this gig should have known what they were getting.
I agree. I find Colbert's show to be very funny, however his performance at the dinner was very disappointing. I was expecting him to make fun of both the press and the President, but nothing he said was funny. The video he did was not funny at all.
I will continue to watch as I do find it very funny.
I agree the video was lame, but when he told the press to get a life and write a book, a fictional book about white house correspondents, I nearly fell off the couch. I think most people tend to get offended when people they like are criticized, but when Pres Bush had that skit a year or two ago about looking under the table for weapons of mass destruction, he made fun of himslef in a smimilar way that Colbert did. After that, the liberal media criticized him for making light of the WMD issue.
Agreed 100%. He was just as you would expect him to be.
I agree with you....Jon Stewart on the other hand is not funny and his show hasn't been funny since the 04" election.
But the Democrats act like Colbert really gave it to the President. I didn't see that at all. I guess that just goes to show that ones political views can effect how one viewed the show.
Also, don't you love it when Colbert interviews members of Congress??? That is classic!!
I know, what has happened to "The Daily Show"? It used to be pretty funny and would make fun of both sides and the press. But now it seems wholly focued on Pres. Bush, which is fine for 2 or 3 minutes but then you have got to make fun of other people. It has gotten really lame.
Good point. I think he is a funny man, but I can't enjoy him. I can't get past what his comedy is actually saying. That's on me, not on Colbert.
They could have gotten Bill Maher. Now that would be nasty.
I do love when he interviews Congress. It is so funny these guys agree to be interviewed and they seem to have no clue as to his style and even that he is a comedian. They usually seem to assume he is a so called 'journalist' and then get thrown off by his questions.
Congressman let me ask you, Iraq... "great" war, or "the greatest" war?
Seeing the Dem congresscritters squirm at that question is ROF funny.
NFP
I found the Daily show after 9-11 when, I really needed some cheering up. Stewert and Colbert were lifesavers for us. My rule is to NEVER take a comedian seriously.
He can be funny when he makes fun of Democrats.
You miss the point. He bombed. The reason he bombed is because his bit was not funny. Even the sympathetic audience he had reacted as though they didn't find the humor in it.
That's because there was no humor in it. It was tedious.
As for his supposed talent in other venues, I wouldn't know. I'd never heard of the guy until the other night.
And BTW, don't you think that in order to be funny, comedy should have a bit of truth to it? Do you think that a comedian making jokes which are based on the idea of, say, there being 500 days to a year could be funny, if the premise of the jokes were to poke fun at those of us who believe that there are only 365?
In the immortal words of A. Whitney Brown:
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
> It's like all those people who were mad at the "That's My Bush" sitcom by the South Park creators, thinking it was a plot against Bush, when we know the series was in creation before the election and would lampoon whoever became President.
Yeah! Did you see that HILARIOUS South Park going after algore? It would have almost been worth it (well, not really I guess) to have a Gore presidency so these guys would rip him a new one on a regular basis!
/Why won't anyone take me serial? :-)
No thanks.
Actually, he flubbed the jokes and got tongue tied. I wish Bush had walked over to the mike and said, "It's ok Stephen, the press won't mind if you flub a few words here or there."
Yep, IMHO they ripped him worse than they've ripped anyone. Striesand was evil, Paris Hilton was a slut, but they made Gore look absolutely pathetic.
Would someone here please recommend a few good Conservative comedians/humorists? Miller, O'Rourke, Keillor,and Rock often have some conservative content. And who was that fellow who hosted Tough Crowd on Comedy Central? He is sharp.
I like most humor that deals with politics as I can laugh at either side.
If you hear of one, ping me. Thanks.
Oh come on he was funny:
This alone:
"Joe Wilson is here, the most famous husband since Desi Arnez. And of course he brought along his lovely wife Valerie Plame. Oh, my god! Oh, what have I said. I am sorry, Mr. President, I meant to say he brought along his lovely wife, Joe Wilson’s wife."
Is worth it.
So why did the audience sit in stone-faced silence at most of his punch lines. He bombed for a reason, and it wasn't because the mostly left-wing audience don't appreciate a fact-free bashing of our President.
:-)
Although I have to admit I did chuckle at the line about D.C. being a chocolate city with a marshmallow middle.
I guess they didn't like being the butt of the joke. Point to me was, sure he hit the president, but he also hit the mainstream press just as hard. Just becuase he bombed with those who shall not be laughed at, doesn't mean he bombed with us peons watching.
Exactly. I thought Colbert was hilarious, but he had the misfortune of performing before an audience of professional bores.
Stephen Colbert has been hanging around his anti-Semite Jew friend Jon Stewart too long.
He did not hit the MSM at all. He was in character as a conservative, accusing the media of destroying the country. His premise was that conservatives are paranoid. He -- again, in character as a conservative -- suggested to the media that they should stop with their liberal bias -- his punch line being that reality has a liberal bias. That was all aimed at conservatives, not the media.
What particularly made him unfunny was that his premises were all untrue. For instance that conservatives are paranoid about liberal bias in the media and that MSM reports "reality." How is that punch line funny when it's based on a faulty premise?
Oh lighten up: Stuff like this:
But, listen, let's review the rules. Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the Decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. Get to know your family again. Make love to your wife. Write that novel you got kicking around in your head. You know, the one about the intrepid Washington reporter with the courage to stand up to the administration. You know - fiction!
I don't know I'm a conservative but the stuff is funny. Maybe I can laugh at myself I don't know.
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