[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
harris447 wrote:
No, ninny…YOU were nonplussed, as was the audience there who contained the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who are not generally regarded as the perfect comedy room.
Let’s see - you just said yourself it wasn’t the perfect comedy room. Exactly. That explains why they were non-plussed, per my point - they weren’t expecting Colbert to do that kind of routine, and it missed its mark for the audience there.
You ever BEEN to the Press Correspondents Dinner? No. Guess what: I have. NO ONE gets laughs, besides the polite ones afforded the president.
I wasn’t measuring by how much the audience slapped the table and guffawed (or didn’t) - I am measuring by the response after the fact.
Besides, no one else thinks it’s terrifying that the entire premise of the president’s “bit” was that he’s a retard?
Seriously? You must easily frightened. Again, I don’t think Colbert was particularly biting, mostly blindly partisan. If that is your version of ‘speaking truth to power’, score one for ‘power’.
Colbert was honest to the point of being cruel about EVERYBODY in the room. He was funny.
Naah, he was an opportunist.
“Not to the adult world”? What the fuck does that mean?
It means exactly what it says it means.
Does the adult world think that comedians should just smile and tell knock-knock jokes when given the chance to mock the single most incompetent president we’ve had this century?
And you’ve proved the point - Colbert’s routine only generated heat with the moonbat contingency, of which you are a part. Comedians can make jokes about the President - watch Letterman or Leno every night - that has nothing to do with any of this.
It is about Colbert being invited to do a job and, intoxicated with his agenda, he didn’t do all that great of a job. The rest of the world has moved on - only the moonbattery is still chirping about how “awe-thum!” it was, with unintentionally funny ‘thank you’ websites and the like.
Of course he had an agenda: you’re just pissy that it wasn’t yours.
Nope - in situations like that, as with the Alfred Smith dinner, there is a certain vibe - Colbert didn’t deliver, mainly because he saw it an opportunity to so something else. No problem, but let’s not pretend it was some revolutionary savaging on President Bush - it was the Left’s usual sarcasm hidden behind humor: as in, the sarcasm is supposed to be serious right up until someone challenges them, and then suddenly it’s “I am a comedian! I do funny! Don’t get so bent out of shape!”
As I said before, I think Colbert is a pretty funny guy - although this brand of satire generally I think is losing its steam as a fad. [/quote]
A fad? Making fun of politicians for being danferously incompetent is a fad?
You’re right. Let’s dig up Bob Hope so he can tell some “jokes” about the preident’s golf game.
Have you even heard the routine? he did get laughs.
But of course, the right will say he didn’t. Same reason the left said Imus bombed when he made fun of the Clintons.
It’s an easy way to avoid talking about the subject of his jokes. The fact that Bush is, you know, the worst president of the century.