BRAVO! Stephen Colbert!

[Jara sang]

Too bad they decided to hold the Whitehouse Corespondents dinner in a morgue this year. I was laughing my ass off. The little film at the end was classic. Also introduced Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame. Awesome!

[graywarrior]

1. Genius. Fucking genius.

George was PISSED!

[Evergreen Emerald]

2. it was awesome!

I laughed and laughed. Bravo Colbert.

[Kurovski]

8. I laughed so hard I had to check on to DU to share it.

The Colbert gig as press secretary via Hitchcock was brilliant. Helen Thomas was brilliant! :rofl:

Kudods to the writers, editors, directors and everyone involved.

Boy, did Laura Bush look PISSED!

I think he actually shocked the hell out of many in the assembled crowd.

Did you see Scalia laughing? Think he'll go all "Joe Peschi" like in Goodfellas? "Do I amuse you? Am I like a clown to you?"

I can't get over how fucking funny that press secretary bit was.

Amazing!!!

EDIT: "kudods"?

[Jara sang]

10. (((GANNON - Panic Button)))

[Kurovski]

18. OH DAMN!!

None of the tricks worked on Helen. The volume button broke. (Great physical work with buttons and keys, by the way, manic and insane.) :rofl: Oh shit, I'm laughing again!!...

"Oh, David Gregory is finally awake" (!)

[Kurovski]

3. Amen to that!! "Buckle up, hon!"

"The last third is back-wash."

[Jara sang]

6. "D.C. is a chocolate city with a marshmallow core"

"...and a graham cracker crust of corruption."

[Kurovski]

15. Hehehe!!! I don't know that most of the crowd knew how to respond

to it all. He devastated the living crap out of all of 'em. They could hardly boo him...say, who was the AP guy who hired Colbert on for the gig? Kudos to him as well!

Some of the crowd reactions...you could tell who "got it". and boy, they looked pleased to have it ALL SAID ALOUD.

(Oops! caps lock!) Damn. That was some powerfully satisfying humor.

Fucking historic. Up there with Mark Twain and the rest

[immoderate]

22. Good point. The audience was in shock!

I think the audience was pretty quiet, and I think it was because they were incredulous. It hit so hard they were paralyzed. The bit with Scalia had me in stitches.

--IMM

[Kurovski]

30. Did you notice how the audience rollicked during George's bit

with that(actually really good) mimic? But they got awful quiet by comparison when Colbert took the stand.

How much of it was due to confusion, umbrage, or the court merely not wishing to tempt the king's disfavor, I know not. :-)

EDIT: As I watch the Bush/Bush presentation again, the audience seems downright pleased with Bush's willful ignorance and idiot routine. Bloody loyalist sycophants.

[immoderate]

37. Bush made fun of himself. Colbert made fun of the press.

I think that Colbert hit them from an angle they didn't expect. I even thought it was funnier the second viewing. Colbert must have seemed more like a horror movie than a comedy act to many of them. I'll say it again, I think he shocked them.

--IMM

[Kurovski]

44. Definitely the skunk at this years garden party.

The INVITED skunk. By someone at the AP, no less.

[Judi Lynn]

45. I hope it really stung, too.They have it coming.Couldn't have been clearer

I hope his words ring in their ears all night as they try to go to sleep.

Now they know their slimey dishonesty is officially outed.

[Guaranteed]

41. LOL did he actually say that? nt

[Kurovski]

43. The whole "backwash" bit, yes he said that. They dubbed Helen Thomas

in the previously taped presentation "press secretary nightmare" to say "Buckle up, hon."

She quietly and persistently stalks Colbert's escaping press secretary throughout the bit, popping up wherever he goes, and after he finally thinks he's safe and has evaded Helen--and her pen and pad, he enters a limo, and the driver turns to Colbert to deliver the "hon" line.

In horror, Colbert sees that the driver is...HELEN THOMAS! He can't seem to escape...THE TRUTH! :rofl:

Helen is calmly Helen, and it is the perfect foil for the comically terrorized Colbert. The White House is so scared of dear, sweet Helen.

Earlier in the bit, Colbert tries to smack-down Ms Thomas with "What are ya gonna do Helen? Ask me for a recipe?"

Very reminiscent of press secretaries Ari & Scott's past petty, shitty treatment of Ms. Thomas.

Did anyone notice Colbert saying something about "it's stifling/stinky in there" as he runs out of the White house? was that a reference to some insult someone once made about the press room before it was redone? Bush? McClellan? Maybe at a press conference with Bush? It's reminded me of something I can't now completely recall

[Fridays Child]

4. He absolutely skewered the press for their failures--perfect, after...

...listening to Smith pat himself and the media on the back, praising them as having gotten it "just about right."

[Kurovski]

42. Self-delete.

D'oh! Responded to wrong post.

[Ravenseye]

5. Is it viewable online anywhere?

[kittenpants]

12. I don't know, but it's rerunning immediately afterwards...n/t

[spooky3]

13. a DUer said Cspan.org would link to a video later

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. I have to have a copy of this for posterity! I hope someone comes

up with a downloadable version.

[Poll_Blind]

29. It's being rebroadcast right now!

See link in this message!

PB

[Hans Delbrook]

7. Stephen For President!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"They're not rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic - they're rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg!"

And calling John "The whore" McCain on his hypocrisy - speaking at Bob Jones University...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

CLASSIC

[Jara sang]

9. Called the Pentagon brass out too.

Something about standing behind computer banks while they send soldiers to the front to die.

[Kittycat]

11. They should have renamed the event to: Colbert Hosts the Presidents Roast.

eom

[Kurovski]

17. Or "Colbert Fries Everyone's Ass."

:rofl:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. ROFLMA!!!!! I was screaming at the screen! I love you! I love you! I love

you!!!! OMG...someone finally had the nerve to be there in the same room with all of those crimnals and tell the truth!!!!

Usually the last third is backwash!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Jara sang]

19. Normally I'm not a fan of "kicking a man when he's down"

But when it's Colbert and Bush is the "man down". I say kick away!

[Canadiana]

14. He was just plain brilliant.

[DanCa]

16. Stephen for the next CIA chief

Not only did he single handily infiltrate the enemy he managed to win.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

23. Very funny! That just reminded me of when he implied that the NSA

had bugs at all of the tables!!!!

[Kurovski]

34. He actually said that's how you can order your cocktails.

Speak into the bug on your table and the NSA will bring you your order. :D

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

35. Into the table number! I know!!!!! :) ::) :)

[chookie]

20. The performance of the year

Or even longer.

I've never seen such a sweet man utterly skewer with such wit before in my life.

I alternated between laughing and being breathless!

Got the impression that the assembled audience, with few exceptions, either didn't get it or were shocked by his guts.

I've always adored Stephen Colbert -- but he's really taken his comedy to a sublime level.

[Jara sang]

24. The question of Colbert's political affiliations may be laid to rest.

But was there really any question? I can just imagines all these freepers saying "I don't get it I thought he was one of us." I guess the people who didn't know, know now. Whoever booked Stephen for this gig is brilliant.

[Kurovski]

27. I'm a little wound-up, but I'm predicting that it will be considered

a HISTORIC performance.

I think historians will find the fact that the audience laughed so heartily at king George's cute bit with "himself", yet remained so subdued during Colbert's scathing shakedown, most interesting indeed.

What a night.

[AlCzervik]

26. put Bush on to the "You got nailed" board.

[Kurovski]

28. Colbert will brag endlessly about his night with the "president"

and this will cause the joke to grow exponentially!

[Jara sang]

31. Yeah, he has new material from now til the next century.

[Kurovski]

32. Even O'Reilly doesn't have this kind of "freindship" with the "president."

:D

[chookie]

33. And the best part was...

...George and Pickles were pissed.

Stephen Colbert is the Muhammed Ali of comedy -- he had all the bastards on the ropes and pummeled them mercilessly, floating like a butterfly the whole time.

He wasn't mean or disrespectful -- he's above stuff like that. It was sublime, masterful.

Gee, I wonder if there's any more of that Stephen Colbert Formula 401 still available?

[Kurovski]

36. Rebroadcast tomorrow at 12 PM Eastern. (nt)

[Kurovski]

38. Make that 12:30 PM eastern.

[Swamp Rat]

40. Video here:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104

[Judi Lynn]

46. In case that page gets changed sometime on Sunday, here are their

two audio links, from your crooksandliars.com link:

"Video-WMP (low res)"
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/WH-Dinner-Colbert.wmv

"Video QT (it's a big file)"
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/WH-Dinner-Colber.mov

[Proud2BAmurkin]

39. KICK

:kick:

[Kurovski]

47. THE WRITERS! Does anyone know the names of the writers

of tonights event?

Thanks to each and every one of them! :loveya:

[Raksha]

48. No, NOT Valerie Plame...Joe Wilson's wife!

You gotta watch that stuff, ya know!

I just watched it on C-Span and I was literally laughing and crying at the same time. That was absolutely amazing!