Steve Colbert White house Press Dinner

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:45 am

Have you guy's seen the clips or whole speech that faux News Man and comedy central star Steve Colbert gave the other night at the White House Press corps. Dinner? It has me rolling in my seat. If you like biting humor that makes people squirm you HAVE to check it out. With President Bush less than 6 feet away Corbert in his faux Bill O'Reily persona lauds Bush in the same manner Archie Bunker stood up for racism and his version of the American dream. And with the same vigor goes after the press core leaving them ripped to shreds. GW and Laura Bush were not amused by this (but they should have), and the press core sat there politely giggling while biting the inside of their cheeks. I know a lot of political shows are making hay of this as either unfunny, disrespectful, but this is what comedy should be about. Subversive on many levels, over the top, and yet a little truth blended in. The press core and the White house might have done themselves a favor by not taking it all so seriously and laughed with him a little bit more.

That said it was one of the funniest moments on TV since the first year of Saturday night live.

Steve Colbert you have balls!!!!

longhorn_22 · Post by **longhorn_22** » Tue May 02, 2006 10:46 am

Colbert is king. I love that man.

iaafan · Post by **iaafan** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:12 pm

Bush doesn't realize he's ever done anything wrong, so it's hard for him to laugh with this guy.

You're right, Bush and Co. would've done themselves a favor by laughing this off, but you have to consider who it is being made fun of here.

catsrback76 · Post by **catsrback76** » Tue May 02, 2006 4:44 pm

longhorn_22 wrote:Colbert is king. I love that man.

DITTO!

couloir41 · Post by **couloir41** » Tue May 02, 2006 9:59 pm

while i have not seen the entire clip i understand it was indeed sharp and not well accepted by "W"...

it is too bad the "msm" and the "fair and balanced" net works don't possess the journalistic acumen or testicles or ovaries to take "W" to task on a daily basis...there is certainly enough material...they can't seem to control their obsequious behavior toward "W" long enough to advance their careers by reporting the obvious...they leave it to comedians and opinion writers...

iaafan · Post by **iaafan** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:32 am

Well Georgie may think Colbert crossed the line, but it was OK for him to make cracks about WMD a while ago. 2,500 dead soldiers and he cracking jokes about WMD.

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/columns/ ... 1002426015

iaafan · Post by **iaafan** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:10 pm

Here's the show in case you missed it.

http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

mslacat · Post by **mslacat** » Wed May 03, 2006 2:25 pm

iaafan wrote:Here's the show in case you missed it.

http://thankyoustephencolbert.org/

Unfortunately the video download link has been taken down

Post by **rtb** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:36 am

Let's get back to the issue here people. I am a republican and last night I listened to Colbert's address and laughed my ass off. All politicians need to lighten up and laugh at themselves once in a while.

iaafan · Post by **iaafan** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:43 pm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00879.html

A little follow up to Colbert.