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progSteven Colbert presentation at the White House Correspondents' dinner. Rather long; if you're pressed for time, skip ahead to the "press conference" bit towards the end. Jaw-droppingly funny. It makes you wonder how he even got invited; did someone in charge of booking think he was an actual conservative comic? God love them, at any rate.
Also amazingly igry because of the lack of laughter throughout; strained chuckles, occasionally. For some reason a tossed-off line about how the glaciers will all melt away soon brought the house down. WTF?
But all the headlines about the dinner on Google News focused instead on Bush clowning around with an impersonator or some shit. Dur hur hur he can poke fun at himself what a guy. There is a rule of comedy here that I do not think is put into words often: like a sort of inverse of the rule that a member of a given ethnic group enjoys particular freedom to poke fun at that group, an individual person famous for being actively incompetent to global-disaster levels cannot poke fun at how dumb they are; that's better left for another comic to do. Because otherwise it sounds like they're making light of their own utter contemptibility, which sounds rather to me like gloating. And the thought of the president gloating sounds too much like me wishing to eat a puppy, so that I may then vomit the puppy onto him.
Also amazingly igry because of the lack of laughter throughout; strained chuckles, occasionally. For some reason a tossed-off line about how the glaciers will all melt away soon brought the house down. WTF?
But all the headlines about the dinner on Google News focused instead on Bush clowning around with an impersonator or some shit. Dur hur hur he can poke fun at himself what a guy. There is a rule of comedy here that I do not think is put into words often: like a sort of inverse of the rule that a member of a given ethnic group enjoys particular freedom to poke fun at that group, an individual person famous for being actively incompetent to global-disaster levels cannot poke fun at how dumb they are; that's better left for another comic to do. Because otherwise it sounds like they're making light of their own utter contemptibility, which sounds rather to me like gloating. And the thought of the president gloating sounds too much like me wishing to eat a puppy, so that I may then vomit the puppy onto him.
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Date: 2006-05-01 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-05-01 02:41 pm (UTC)It just cracked me up. I don't understand how the audience wasn't rolling in the aisles, unless they were a bunch of sycophantic hacks who... oh... maybe I do get it.
Colbert was brilliant. Genuinely courageous. Willing and able to point out clearly and loudly that the emperor not only has no clothes, but that he knows it and he's lying about it.