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Posted by cdubrocker on 2006-05-01 13:12:06 +0000

Colbert at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

Stephen Colbert's <a href = "http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104">schtick</a> at the event is really funny, especially considering that Bush is sitting only several feet away from him. Note the muted laughter from the audience.
Posted by on 2006-05-01 13:24:41 +0000
<a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811">transcript</a>. Sort of funny that Frederick @ Daily Kos is crowing about his "improved transcript", isn't that what the White House communications office does?

I've only read the first four paragraphs, and it's already brutal. I always assumed Colbert was a sort of Jon Stewart hanger-on; maybe not. Inspired satire. Fantastic. I should withhold comments until I read the whol thing...
Posted by buzzorhowl on 2006-05-01 14:08:01 +0000
Fucking fabulous.
Posted by dawnbixtler on 2006-05-01 14:16:47 +0000
"And reality has a well-known liberal bias... Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American!"

He essentially sums up what's so startlingly wrong with the GOP these days and does it with very funny satire. An inspired piece.
Posted by tgl on 2006-05-01 23:32:47 +0000
<a href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002425363">E&P's</a> take.

Stephen Fairey (hatip NP) called it "one of the greatest performances of political satire in American history". Hyperbole? We report. You decide.
Posted by tgl on 2006-05-02 00:08:39 +0000
I thought the transcript was hilarious, but the delivery, <a href="http://www.wonkette.com/politics/stephen-colbert/colberts-routine-what-did-jeff-skunk-baxter-think-170750.php">ehhh.</a>

I may agree with the esteemed opinion makers over at wonkette.com, Colbert wasn't _that_ funny.
Posted by cdubrocker on 2006-05-02 09:53:22 +0000
I dunno, I thought the delivery was really pretty good. It's tough when you have an audience that doesn't respond. The pacing, everything was as perfect as it could have been. The lack of laughter was practically part of the whole thing. Sort of like Jon Stewart at the Academy Awards. Really good, spot on stuff, said to an audience that can't or doesn't want to appreciate it. I thought it was brilliant satire - thank goodness for C-SPAN!
Posted by tgl on 2006-05-02 10:38:11 +0000
I agree it was a tough audience. The overall effect would have been better if everyone was belly-laughing about how the administration is soaring like the Hindenberg.

He did get good laughs with Valerie Plame. Also Scalia.

Wicked, pointed, devastating satire.
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