" new websties springing up" the Thank Colbert--even as this skit bombed

[rodeodance]

says msnbc just now. They did a brief segment on this.

[LisaM]

1. You know what I think about that Colbert skit?

It was deadly serious. I didn't laugh either, but I am really glad he did it. It was a very frightening indictment. Its power was more tragic than humorous and I don't think people are going to stop talking about it for a very long time.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. you bet

Who was it that said that Colbert, knowing the piece would be televised, was NOT speaking to the sit-on-your-hands crowd in the audience, but to the viewers at home and on the Internet? (as well as to the chimp in chief) That's correct, too.

[MADem]

5. A blogger at TIME magazine. He said he wasn't playing to 'the room'

The room is only just now starting to figure out that it wasn't FOR them, it was ABOUT them and aimed right over their heads into TV LAND. And it was also about the Monkey, of course...

[Mr_Spock]

3. The confrontation made me giddy with laughter

Perhaps some of the "jokes" weren't as funny in a traditional sense, but I was rolling on the floor - in tears laughing!

:rofl:

[warrens]

4. I agree

He should have pissed on the punk at the end.

[Warpy]

6. Same here. I was shocked that so much truth was being told

to dictatorial power and astonished at Colbert's raw courage in doing so. That family is not kind to their critics and more than one author has been found a suicide with multiple gunshot wounds.

Perhaps if we can ever move this country back to some sort of sanity we can reward people like Colbert and Stewart and the other courageous funnymen who have told the truth--even Letterman, once in a while.

Until then, we'll just have to make do with sending them fan mail.

Oh, and my suggestion for next year's "roast" is Chris Rock. He's never been shy about telling uncomfortable truth that people need to hear, either.

[yy4me]

7. My reaction was "Holy Mackerel, someone has the guts to do it!

Funny (hee-hee) or not, that was not the point. This performance was an act of courage we will probably not see again for a long time. I believe it was not meant to be funny (chuckles, yes but...), it was dead-on serious and well done. I will forever be grateful to Stephen Colbert. He has made me proud to be a fan. His speech was well thought out and was a huge service to this country. If not him, who? No-one else seems to be able to take the stage and let it rip as he did. Stephen deserves our thanks. Most of us would never have the opportunity to be on center stage and tell it like it is. Sorry, mass media, he upstaged you.

[unblock]

8. people aren't thanking him for being funny.

it's funny how the press is dwelling on whether or not it was funny, which misses the entire point.
(actually it's not funny how the press is missing the point. that's one of the key points of colbert's speech.)

the point is that he said these things while shrub was a captive audience. and it wasn't meant to make shrub laugh, nor really for the journalists, either. at least, that's not why colbert is getting so much support.

it was a speech of POLITICAL significance, and usually those aren't meant to get laughs.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Of course not. The press only deal in infotainment, emphasis on the

'tainment', of course.