Colbert Report's the Word is GREAT tonight

[jsamuel]

basically saying "thanks for working 2 jobs with no benefits and not rebelling and voting for Republicans and being more concerned with gay marriage then whether or not your kid gets to see a doctor while Exxon/Mobil gets the profits and people like me get a tax cut"

[kaygore]

1. I'm trying to meet a deadline so I had to forgo Jon and Stephen

Thank you for catching me up. I'll try to catch the repeat tomorrow.

[gunsaximbo]

15. what kind of a dead line?

[Plausible]

2. Yes, Colbert is soooo right n/t

[TaleWgnDg]

3. And that about sums it up! . . . folks LOVE to get shafted! . . . n/t

[Ned_Devine]

4. Saw it.

Very good. I was thinking...if I were someone who had never seen this show before and didn't get the humor and I was in the kitchen at the time unable to read the graphics, I might have thought Colbert was serious. I hope there are enough people like us to keep this show on the air.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. I love it

It's all satire but he does it so well! I love the little typed up words in the box on the screen during his "The Word." It's usually hilarious stuff. He's great. Jon Stewart is a producer of the show so I'm not surprised. :)

[jsamuel]

8. well, "truthiness" was mentioned on Oprah

Colbert must be doing something right!

By the way, "truthiness" needs to be added to the DU spell checker.

[wryter2000]

21. I missed truthiness

I missed that show. I'm assuming it means one of those things everyone knows that actually have no basis in fact.

Please clarify. I'd love to use the term. :bounce:

[jsamuel]

26. Go here and watch the clip of Colbert's first show. "Truthiness" is his

first "The Word" segment.

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=24039

[wryter2000]

30. Thanks!

:yourock:

[newyawker99]

31. Hi Ned_Devine!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[faithnotgreed]

5. wow - that does sum it up

except maybe the hard rights perversion of religion but maybe that was wrapped up in the gay marriage reference

[jsamuel]

12. he worked that in too, and iraq

he said something like, "thanks for giving us money to build the country (*Iraq) so they can have the same kind of government as us (*Elected Theocracy)

[faithnotgreed]

18. haha - thanks for the additional reporting

[FreedomAngel82]

6. LOL

Awesome.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. Damn, he keeps getting better. I love that he (& his writers) get away

with all this.

I loved "Jesi" (the multiple of Jesus) last night.

Rapier wit...love, love, love the show. :loveya:

Did I mention that I love the show! MKJ

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

10. My first time with his show

I love it

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

11. He keeps getting better and better!

[Wilber_Stool]

13. David Cross is on too.

[JVS]

27. that part was good

[DS1]

14. His delivery is just about perfect

I'd say perfect, but that would be slobbering up too much

[peacetalksforall]

16. Try to catch this show - its outstanding. But, I'd like to know how it

goes over with people who have never experienced O'Reilly and the other court jester hosts on corporata propaganda 'so-called news'.

Good show, Stephen!

[GrimReefa]

17. Best. Episode. Ever.

This is by far the best episode of Colbert Report yet. The Duke Cunningham episode was the best one before this one, but this one topped that and then some.

Which is good, because the Daily Show was a tad off tonight. After the "addicted to oil" joke flopped, it seemed like it threw Stewart for the entire show...

[Fredda Weinberg]

20. Stewart apologized for being sick e/m

[wryter2000]

24. I swear he gets better every night

At first, I didn't really get it. I knew it was satire, but I didn't think it was as good as what he did on TDS. I've never seen O'Really and never plan to :scared:, so I didn't get the reference.

[wryter2000]

25. Welcome to DU, btw

:hi:

[newyawker99]

32. Hi GrimReefa!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Inland]

34. Welcome to DU, and I like the flops.

Besides the "this is the look where boners go to die" might be the best line ever.

[pstans]

19. "If American workers keep this up longer

all the jobs in China will come back."

Great show. It is replayed tomorrow at 1:30 and 7:30 central time.

[stop the bleeding]

22. true -saw it n/t

[ComerPerro]

23. LOL

[stanwyck]

28. You're not going to believe this

but when Colbert's show was first on, the freepers thought he was "one of them." One of our relentless DU trolls went "over there" and reported back with their posts.
Hilarious.
They were so happy to have their own rightwing comedy show. They were giddy. And thrilled to have an "anti-Stewart."
One lone poster kept saying..."I think he's mocking us."
And they kept drowning him out.
Not sure what they're thinking now.

[underpants]

29. Yes I was going to post on it too

it was excellent.

[Gabi Hayes]

33. thanks for headsup.....David Cross is relentless on his second CD

the prayer from a mortally wounded soldier to Bush (urging him to enjoy his lobster salad) is pretty much genius