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Stephen Colbert addressed W and company at the White House Correspondents' Dinner last night!
Who would know to expect such great television on C-SPAN? I wonder if this came up as a recommendation for Tivo users who watch the COLBERT REPORT?
Joe and I were just singing praises for the king of the No-Fact Zone this week - how consistently sharp, quick, and brilliant Stephen Colbert's work as Stephen Colbert has been. This man is a scalpel applied with surgical precision to removing the cancer of poisonous facts that is crippling the health and weakening the power of our very American American government.
Or... really, he's the surgeon... and his show is the sharpened scalpel...
Or... perhaps he's the radiation treatment... because you can never be 100% certain with surgery. At least, that's what my gut tells me.
Or... No, no, no. I know! He's the legally prescribed marijuana the country takes to soothe and counter the violent nausea that arises from the combinations of truthy treatments used to fight the facts.
Except... I'm pretty sure he's against that sort of thing.
Right, well, regardless of your choice in metaphor, he is Good for the country - watch, listen, laugh until/because it hurts...
Let the eagle soar!~
Thanks to Joe for pointing me to this, and to onegoodmove for editing and posting. I've dug up some more video watching options, including Colbert's audition tape for White House Press Secretary. Check them out if you've got some time.
It's funny because it's truthy...
Keep on keepin on~
3 comments:
I've said from the start, the Colbert Report is FANTASTIC television. I hope they put all the "Better Know a District" segments on DVD at some point. "The Fighting 14th!!!"
A pretty decent report/blog entry from TIME online - Stephen Colbert and the Death of "The Room."
I've seen some bits and pieces of "news" about the (in)appropriateness of Colbert's performance over the last couple days. It seems ridiculous to have expected Mr. Colbert to put on a passive or subdued version of himself at such a venue. I wonder if some link - or perhaps several - in the chain of decisionmakers, whoops, deciders, of who should close the Correspondents' Dinner actually believed Colbert to be the Colbert of his Comedy Central show. Someone saw just enough of his shows to believe that he's a real Bill O. acolyte...?
I don't believe that any of his address was out of line with what anyone would expect after watching an episode of the Report.
"Like boxing a glacier..."
Damn, he's Good! =)
And in the NYTimes...
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