Stephen Colbert has balls

[C.F. Kane]

Anyone catch the coverage of Colbert's roast on TDS and the Report last night?

 

[Calvin]

Anyone catch the coverage of Colbert's roast on TDS and the Report last night?

My TV viewing is always on delay, since I have no TV. I have to wait for everything to hit the net. Can't wait for this one.

 

[sinewave]

Anyone catch the coverage of Colbert's roast on TDS and the Report last night?

hopefully it tivo'd. i'll check it out tonight.

 

[Calvin]

The Colbert Report and The Office are the two funniest shows in television right now.

 

[sinewave]

The Colbert Report and The Office are the two funniest shows in television right now.

yup, since arrested development is no more.

 

[Matt]

Well I didnt talk to Bush and neither did you so we dont know for sure if he liked it or not, but Bush does like making fun of himself, being the target of his own jokes, often using self-deprecating humor [as he did that night with Bush and Mr bush impersonator].

I will say that, having watched these before, Colberts speech was much more harsh than past ones...which are normally aimed equally at the press and the prez...his was mostly attacking the president.

I thought it was hilarious.

I think the fact that he didn't crack a smile says how he felt about it. Bush is the president famous for having no tolerance for being questioned. I'd say its a safe bet he didn't like it.

 

[sinewave]

Regardless of how Admiral_N8 tries to spin it, Bush and his administration apparently didn't take too kindly to it after all. Check out this article from US News & World Report:

Skewering comedy skit angers Bush and aides

By Paul Bedard

Posted 5/1/06

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.

"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.

"I've been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."

Colbert's routine was similar to what he does on his show, the Colbert Report, but much longer on the topic of Bush, suggesting that the president is out of touch with reality. Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines.

In fact, some aides crowed over reports that the president easily bested Colbert in the reviews of both comedy acts.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060501/1whwatch.htm

 

[The Overlord]

Please! Think before you talk! This bear knows a few things!

You are listening to the ramblings of a guy named Colbert who pronounces his name "cole-bear"... cole-BEAR!!!

And yet you follow blindly with no regard to his true agenda of self-propelled hatred! I say nay to thee! NAY!!!

I have had enough of your pro bear propaganda. You take your facts somewhere else sir. Jimmy, cut his mike.

 

[jaguarr]

Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines.

In fact, some aides crowed over reports that the president easily bested Colbert in the reviews of both comedy acts.

It was amusing, but it wasn't that funny. What a bunch of kiss-asses, geeeeez!

jag

 

[Mr Sparkle]

yup, since arrested development is no more.

DING

DONG


THE WITCH IS DEAD!

 

[sinewave]

It was amusing, but it wasn't that funny. What a bunch of kiss-asses, geeeeez!

jag

i thought it was pretty lame. sure the guy did a pretty good impersonation, but you know bush didn't write the material and probably didn't understand half of it either.

 

[sinewave]

DING

DONG


THE WITCH IS DEAD!

careful not to get some of that zestful foam in your eyes. i hear it stings like a sum'b!#ch.

 

[jaguarr]

i thought it was pretty lame. sure the guy did a pretty good impersonation, but you know bush didn't write the material and probably didn't understand half of it either.

Well, that and while it was somewhat amusing it didn't eclipse Colbert at all. I just find it remarkable that these aides would say that it did as if they are somehow saving face for Bush somehow by doing that. It's like grade-school or something where a kid gets his ass thoroughly kicked in front of all his friends and then his friends go "You really beat that guy up! He won't bother you again!". LOL!

jag

 

[sinewave]

Well, that and while it was somewhat amusing it didn't eclipse Colbert at all. I just find it remarkable that these aides would say that it did as if they are somehow saving face for Bush somehow by doing that. It's like grade-school or something where a kid gets his ass thoroughly kicked in front of all his friends and then his friends go "You really beat that guy up! He won't bother you again!". LOL!

jag

exactly. he's completely sheltered from reality.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

careful not to get some of that zestful foam in your eyes. i hear it stings like a sum'b!#ch.

oh I have tears in my eyes alright.


of joy!

 

[sinewave]

oh I have tears in my eyes alright.


of joy!

choke on your candor!!!!

 

[Mr Sparkle]

choke on your candor!!!!

can't .....................................breathe!



I



regret





..................nothing.

 

[Admiral_N8]

I think the fact that he didn't crack a smile says how he felt about it. Bush is the president famous for having no tolerance for being questioned. I'd say its a safe bet he didn't like it.

He was made fun of a lot by his Bush impersonator friend...and he smiled there.

And Bush has tolerated more questioning than any other president in our lifetime.

 

[Admiral_N8]

It was amusing, but it wasn't that funny. What a bunch of kiss-asses, geeeeez!

jag

"Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines."

The crowd did receive the Bush and Bush segment a lot better than Colberts thing....thats true, but that is just that crowd [probly because there was Fox News, Bush's aides, Bushs supporters, and people just afraid to laugh at really harsh criticism of bush with him right there ] . I enjoyed Colberts thing much more.

 

[Backdrifter]

Regardless of how Admiral_N8 tries to spin it, Bush and his administration apparently didn't take too kindly to it after all. Check out this article from US News & World Report:



http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060501/1whwatch.htm

God, they are even spinning who was funnier. Pathetic.

 

[ThePenguin]

I was kinda hoping for a picture of Colbert's balls

I've seen them.

 

[Calvin]

He was made fun of a lot by his Bush impersonator friend...and he smiled there.

And Bush has tolerated more questioning than any other president in our lifetime.

What the hell are you talking about? The Bush administration has been one of the most secretive ones in history, and his press relations are more staged and calculated than just about any. Bush even wants executive privelage to extend beyond his terms (gee, I wonder why?).

 

[sinewave]

God, they are even spinning who was funnier. Pathetic.

my thoughts exactly.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

He was made fun of a lot by his Bush impersonator friend...and he smiled there.

And Bush has tolerated more questioning than any other president in our lifetime.

Less actually. By the end of his first term in office he had given less press conferences from himself and staff members than any other president before him in a given term(since the age of television).

 

[Calvin]

I just watched the 60 Minutes feature on Colbert on youtube, interesting stuff.