Colbert chatter just won't stop

[dogday]

Will he go five for five? It's day four of the workweek and Stephen Colbert remains atop Technorati's most-popular searches, the spot he's occupied all week. Everybody's still all abuzz over his performance at Saturday's White House Correspondents Association dinner, where he sarcastically skewered President Bush. (Check out our post Wednesday for more on all this.)

Helping to keep the debate alive: This morning, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen weighed in - and he wasn't on Colbert's side.

"He failed dismally in the funny person's most solemn obligation:

to use absurdity or contrast or hyperbole to elucidate," Cohen wrote. "He was, like much of the blogosphere itself, telling like-minded people what they already know and alienating all the others. In this sense, he was a man for our times. He also wasn't funny."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/05/colbert_chatter.html

Make Sure To Read The Comments, They are all mostly Great Reviews

[katinmn]

1. It can go on for months. I'd be happy.

Hey, did you see this?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2606717&mesg_id=2606717

just doin my part. ;-)

[MadMaddie]

2. They are stupid aren't they.....the more the attack Colbert

the more people tune into his show and the more fans he gains...wait there's more...and the more people will want to see the video from the dinner....

Bwah...haw..haw..haw.... :rofl: :rofl: :applause:

[jsamuel]

3. I suppose Cohen would have rather had a "Black/White person" joke?

?

Black guys are all like this... "oooo...oooo"
White guys are all like this... "eeerrr...eeerrr"
????

I am getting really tired of all the racial jokes on tv recently. Not that they are "wrong" but because they are just plain lazy jokes. Anyone can repeat a stereotype over and over again. FUNNY!!! :eyes:

[Bushknew]

4. Colbert 08

One of the greatest American speeches of all time

[Bake]

19. Oh c'mon, that's total bullshit - "one of the greatest speeches"

If you believe that, you haven't listened to or read the really great ones. Let's see:

John Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you ..."

Martin Luther King, Jr., "I have a dream" (or just about ANY of MLK's speeches!),

Robert Kennedy, "Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight ..."

Abraham Lincoln, "With malice toward none, with charity for all ..."

Abraham Lincoln, "Four score and seven years ago ..."

(And I could go on. And on. And on.)

While I respect what Colbert did, his routine does not BEGIN to compare with the truly GREAT speeches of American history. Maybe we need to back down the hyperbole just a tad ...

Bake

[jbnow]

35. I think people

who want to continue talking about it should keep talking about it.

I think people who don't want to talk about it anymore should stop talking about it.

[Anser]

42. Ah the good old days

I've listened to or read those speeches.

Not Impressed.

I mean, who cares what a bunch of old dead liberals had to say anyway.

Everybody knows that progress in history has a strong liberal bias.



But seriously, I think its dangerous to romanticize the past too much. Those people were speaking the truth in a way that was daring and moving for their time. Colbert spoke the truth in a way that is daring and moving for our time.

Lofty ideas like the ones in those speeches are snickered at these days, or have been so cheapened by punditry and hypocritical right wingers repeating the sound bites stolen from the poetry of the past. Today, it may be viewed as crass to some, but Irony and Sarcasm is what can move us, perhaps it's jaded, but as we all know, satire has its own rich historical pedigree as well.

[Ecumenist]

63. Anser....

BRAVO!! and welcome to DU. You have a womderful way of putting thoughts and ideas into words in such a way that it makes it clear and easy to understand. :hi:

[slybacon9]

58. if for the scenario alone... yes, it was one of the greatest.

and you can sure as hell bet i will be telling my grandkids about it.

along with the rest of that great list you posted.

[Matariki]

5. not funny

that's why there was plenty of laughter in the audience. that's why people keep sending links to the video all over the interweb. right, not funny at all...

[mwb970]

61. Right-wingers have no sense of humor.

We already knew this. Why be surprised that they are selling the "not funny" meme to each other?

Righties are great at stealing and cheating. Wit and humor, not so much.

[11 Bravo]

6. Someone will be along directly to point out that Colbert ...

did not donate a kidney to a leprosy-ridden orphan or discover a cure for halitosis.

[Der Blaue Engel]

16. Yes, but he did donate his sperm

:D

[titoresque]

25. .....

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: That's ok, I'm still giddy over the whole thing! Not even going to waste time arguing with 'em. :hi:

[bleever]

41. Me too. Still too busy laughing to even want to argue with the people who

don't get it.

:)

[highplainsdem]

7. Last night's topics about Cohen whining that Colbert was "a bully":

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1097479

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1097573

[dogday]

13. Funny how they were saying just the

opposite when it was Imass at the Podium and Clinton on the hotseat.....

[Dr Fate]

22. Awww- poor widdle baby had jokes told about him- BAWWWW!!!

!!!!

[DearAbby]

8. The more they go on and on about Colbert...

the more they PROVE HIS POINT! LAPDOG STENOGRAPHERS, don't like being called on it eh? Bitch and moan some more, you are just proving his point.

[Mythsaje]

9. Sent this letter to Cohen last night...

Most of the time I don't find Colbert particularly funny. His pretend Republican shtick doesn't work for me. Usually. But standing in front of Bush himself and delivering the same message? Well, that's a different story.

Sorry, Mr. Cohen. It was damn funny. Uncomfortable at times, especially for those in the audience who didn't want to draw attention to themselves, but still funny. Scalia laughed loudly enough while Colbert openly mocked him. Takes a certain kind of guy to do that.

Guess Bush isn't that kind of guy. Now there's a surprise.

You don't get the joke? The joke is that this man and his administration insulate themselves from criticism at every opportunity. The press is walking on eggshells as if afraid they'll be dragged into a dark room and beaten with a stick for pointing out not only their foibles, but their outright deceptions.

As long as one American soldier, or one Iraqi child, is held captive to his imperial ambitions, Mr. Bush should be forced to suffer the indignity of public mockery on a regular basis. In person.

It's only fair.

Don't get it? Too bad for you. We certainly do.

[immoderate]

14. Yeah!

Liked it, Myth.

--IMM

[Bake]

21. You will now be purged from DU, if not the Dem Party!

You DARED to criticize Colbert!! Your first two sentences are grounds for immediate ostracism around here! Surely you know that!

GASP!

You know what? Colbert's shtick got old to me too. I can hardly watch his show anymore. And now he's "wedded" to this "character" her created, and it's going to be damn hard for him to do anything different.

Bake

[July]

38. Okay, focus on the least important part of Mythsaje's post.

And fail to recognize what she was building up to.

Don't like Colbert? Don't watch, and don't try to use a post that ISN'T aligned with your view as support.

[Bake]

60. Actually, YOU missed my point

So let me spell it out. Colbert is the current "hero" of DUers, many of whom will tolerate NO deviation from the accepted wisdom. I was not knocking MSJ, I was actually agreeing with her post. And in so doing, I was taking a jab at the "accepted wisdom" at DU, viz., that Colbert is (a) a hero, (b) an orator the likes of which we've not seen in American history, (c) the bravest human on the face of the planet, and (d) whatever other hyperbole someone can concoct wile on a caffeine buzz at 3 A.M. in front of the warm glow of the monitor.

I appreciate what SC did at the WHCD. And it did take some guts, given that it *could* still end up being a career-killer, although I doubt it. Frankly, there's a BANDWAGON of *-critics these days (and thank God for that!). I have more respect for the Dixie Chicks, who basically DID put their careers on the line. But it's not like they were going to be KILLED over it ...

... unlike Martin, Bobby, and others who were KILLED, literally KILLED, for their politics.

What I'm saying is this: if we've fallen so far as a democratic society that the BEST WE CAN DO is a comedian making fun of the administration at a correspondents' dinner, then America is OVER.

Bake

[Mythsaje]

57. Wouldn't be the first time

I've thumbed my nose at "accepted wisdom" around here.

;)

[Joe Fields]

34. Get it? Got it. Have moved on.

[Old and In the Way]

10. Not "inane" funny, "indictment" funny.

[Cha]

30. LOL!

Spoilin' the party kinda FUNNY!

[magnolia]

11. We only had to endure...

...a day of clips from the Bush "dumb and dumber" routine.

[lonestarnot]

12. teehehehehehe

on and on and on and on Colbert the new face to the Energizer Bunny!

[Frank Cannon]

15. Fools that they are, the MSM is perpetuating this...

by first ignoring Colbert's performance, then going into massive damage-control mode when they realized they'd screwed up. Now every time some idiot pundit says, "Colbert wasn't funny", another person searches out the Colbert video on the Internet to see for themselves.

[titoresque]

26. I love your Superman!

:rofl:

[Frank Cannon]

50. Thanks!

:D

[ChiciB1]

49. And We NOW Have A Job... Keep It Front & Center...

Hey MSM, you getting this stuff? D-ya unnerstan???

Thought I would speak *ie just in case you still DON'T GET IT!!

YOU PEOPLE... YOU CORPORATE WHORES OUT THERE... have you found SOUL yet???

Yes, I too could keep this up for another month or TWELVE!!

[LastLonelyModerate]

17. Prehistory

Brrring. Brrring.

John Stewart here.

Good one, John. Very funny.

Stephen? Hi.

I got it, John. And my entire staff is rolling around laughing themselves into incontinence.

Stephen??

I won’t get anything coherent out of them for the rest of the day.

Stephen, what are you talking about?

You know. This invitation to host the White House Press Corps Dinner. Listen, Stewart, just because you got the Oscars is no..

Stephen - I didn’t send it, I swear. (slow double take) You got an invitation to host the WHAT?!?

It had to come from over there, John.

I’ll check with my staff, but they wouldn’t – hold on. (Minute of hold music)

Thanks a lot, Stephen. Now MY entire staff are running around high-fiving and hugging each other. They didn’t send it, though.

You sure?

I’m sure. Stephen, could it possibly – nah, never mind. Too weird. Stephen, did you really say “laughing themselves into incontinence?” Can I use that?

Later, John. I’m going to get to the bottom of this!

And the rest - is history.

[robbedvoter]

37. FACT: Jon was invited first (or maybe after Seinfeld). They both

turned it down (fact celebrated here on DU). I am sure Jon had a hand in the writing.
But your sketch is funny too - as long as you don't sell it as fact.

[gratuitous]

18. You know that guy?

The one who never gets the joke the first time? The one who, hours or even days later will bring up something someone else said, and tell you what they should have said?

I'm not talking about the regret we all feel when we miss a chance for a zinger. I'm talking about the guy who actually talks about it afterward. Often more than once. His favorite phrases are "I shoulda said" and "I just thought of this for when that guy called me slow-witted, wanna hear it?"

Bet you never knew these guys pulled down six-figure paychecks for their ability to string words together.

[glitch]

45. And then later they repeat the same joke as if it's their own. Oh yeah we

all know this guy.
Next year he'll be talking about how he was the only one who really got Colbert, that Colbert's audience was the world not the room, and repeating his jokes without credit.

[Dr Fate]

20. Oh really- you "already know" that your paper is mostly spell-checked BS?

Then that makes you guilty as sin- and indirectly responsible for bloodshed & criminal activity. Thanks for admitting you already knew you were the propaganda artist Colbert suggested you are.

What is REALLY funny how is how nearly EVERYONE else except the butt of the joke-the media- thinks this is FUNNY AS HELL.

[Ms. Clio]

23. The whole world is talking about Stephen Colbert

Or at least most of the blogosphere. He is still #1 and #2 at Technorati's Top Searches, ahead of American Idol, for the third straight day.

51,462 posts contain:
colbert in All Blogs

And bloggers around the world are talking about him. I don't know what they are saying, but at least they are spelling his name right. Do the searches, and click on blogs with "any authority," and read what people who aren't political nerdinistas are saying (the ones in English, anyway). I think it's great fun.




Gracias a Houben encuentro este vídeo sobre la actuación del humorista Stephen Colbert en la Cena de Corresponsales de la Casa Blanca, en la que se mete de manera espectacular con muchas de las



No jantar...

- Bárbaro!!! Steve Bridges e Stephen Colbert roubaram a cena na noite do White House Correspondents' Association Annual Dinner. Vale a pena assistir aos videos, caso você domine a 'língua yankee':



Colbert II
Inmiddels verschijnt er hier en daar tóch een recensie van het Witte Huis-dineetje. Ook de New York Times doet er wat aan. Het beste vond ik voorlopig nog een column van Greg Mitchell van het mediatijdschrift Editor & Publisher.

Mitchell noemt de verontwaardiging van zijn mediacollega's over het "niet zo leuke" optreden van Colbert ongepast en roept een eerder optreden van Bush tijdens het journalistengala in herinnering.

Bush zocht in een filmpje voor dezelfde gelegenheid in 2004 naar de nooit gevonden massavernietigingswapens: achter gordijnen, tussen papieren en onder z'n bureau. Daar werd toen smakelijk om gelachen, terwijl het nota bene dé reden tot oorlogsvoering was geweest.

Op het moment dat Bush de onvindbare wapens trivialiseerde waren al 500 Amerikaanse soldaten gesneuveld, dat zijn er inmiddels al 1900 meer.



Κι’ άλλο Colbert
Kostis | 2006-05-4 7:13am GMT+2

Stephen Colbert

Το ξέρω, σας έχω πρήξει, αλλά αν είναι να δει αυτή τη φάση έστω και ένα άτομο παραπάνω, αξίζει. Τελευταία φορά όμως, το υπόσχομαι. Εκτός και αν βρω τίποτα άλλο ενδιαφέρον, καινούργιο.

Αν δεν τα είδατε λοιπόν, δείτε τα βίντεο όπου ο Colbert τη λέει στο Bush, τρελά ωμά, με τον Bush ως επίτημο καλεσμένο, τρία μέτρα δίπλα του

[Tuesday_Morning]

32. I love it!

That's fantastic.

[Ms. Clio]

33. isn't it?

I'm not even sure what language the fourth one is.

[WiseButAngrySara]

39. "It's Greek to me!" No kidding; the language of the last post is Greek.n/t

[Ms. Clio]

40. Thanks! n/t

[Viva_La_Revolution]

55. Greek!!

google is your friend. :bounce:

:woohoo: !!!!

[Dr Fate]

47. You should start that as a thread- priceless. n/t

n/t

[Ms. Clio]

48. shhhh, don't tell anyone

I have a weird phobia about starting my own threads.

I almost did it this time. Maybe I will. :)

[0007]

24. A comment from a use to be Right Winger

I used to consider myself a Republican until Bush and his administration took over and started picking apart our constitution, dividing our country and invaded Iraq. I speak for myself and many others when I say that we have felt helpless and powerless as we've watched the arrogance and corrutption grow more brazen by the day while the main stream media is asleep at the wheel or driven by the corporate greed that panders to the lowest common denominator. Watching Colbert address the high powered audience the way he did made me almost giddy that some one finally had the stones to tell the truth that needs to be told. The cold reception and lack of media coverage has proven the accuracy of his message. I can't get over the republican response and how people still don't get it. What will it take for you to see what's going on with our government???? This blog is obviously tilted way to the right and it's unbeleivable to me that anyone still support this president.
Posted by: RD | May 4, 2006 4:15:58 PM

[joeunderdog]

59. Holy Shit--An articulate Repuke who gets it? WOW. nt

[ShortnFiery]

27. "Will he go five for five?"

I sure hope so!

These arrogant horses' patooties just can't STFU ... even when it's smart to back off.

The more they whine, the more we party. :party:

[lonestarnot]

28. Rate it up damn it!

[NightOwwl]

29. This baby has legs...

Big Time!!!

:applause: :woohoo: :applause:

[lonestarnot]

31. got a link to the replay NightOwwl?

[NightOwwl]

43. Sorry for the late response...here's a link:

http://rapidshare.de/files/19306470/Colbert.wmv.html

Scroll down the page and click the "Free" button...you have to wait about 60 seconds for the download, but it is well worth it!

[C_U_L8R]

36. I love it when republicans protest too much

they just can't help themselves...
I mean really.. they cannot help themselves

hilarious stuff

[fooj]

44. Truth is our most powerful weapon!

:toast:

[AuntPatsy]

46. They are just giving him what he needs by all the attention..a Bigger

audience, just because his review is not praise does not mean those that watch it because of his article will not end up loving it...

[linazelle]

51. This one was hilarious...

I don't know who Robbie Cooper is other than a guy who, according to his own web site, claims to have a BS in prof. writing, yet appears to believe "dispresectful" is a word. I certainly don't know why you chose to quote him.

But more importantly, Mr. Cooper misses a third option when he states, "I would have asked him (Colbert)to step outside or shut his pie-hole. He would not have had a third option."

When confronted by such a person who apparently does not have the intellect to debate differing views and claims that he would rather physically silence you, one always has the option of obliging such a rube and shutting his pie hole first.

In Cooper's case, this would be a particularly harsh remedy. Judging from the picture on his blog, it appears that Cooper has yet to meet a pie that he didn't like.

[Swamp Rat]

52. kick

[AuntPatsy]

53. To ensure the whole world realizes the emperor was finally told

he was naked to his face, we cannot let this be yesterday's news.

[KAT119]

54. Colbert's brilliant expose is rippling right into' Regime Change' !!

[gristy]

56. Just amazing comments

99% Pro-Colbert. As the week goes on, this whole Colbert phenomenon is just unbelievable.

[Cha]

62. Just saw this on buzzflash..

"Editorial: Presidential shtick / What did they think a TV satirist would do?"
Friday, May 05, 2006

Snips~
"Washington insiders have accused Mr. Colbert of violating an unspoken rule that the press go easy on the president one night a year. Coverage of Mr. Bush's self-deprecating skit with a look-a-like entered the 24-hour news cycle with little or no mention of Mr. Colbert's scathing monologue.

This isn't surprising. Mr. Colbert indicted the D.C. media establishment for mindless complacency, as well. To mention Mr. Colbert's criticism of the president would also have meant examining his charge of media bungling. Mr. Colbert received a chilly reception in the hall. Hacks and politicians were scandalized by his honesty and "bad manners."

What did they expect Mr. Colbert to do? It was like hiring George Carlin for his street cred, but hoping he'd turn out to be more like Yakov Smirnoff. It makes no sense. In the end, Stephen Colbert did his shtick while media royalty and Mr. Bush did theirs."



Interesting take from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette..
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06125/687606-192.stm