Colbert boiled him in oil, that worst pretzel in history! Send him gold!

[lonestarnot]

Screw the roses! Steven Colbert my hat is off to you! And thanks for the boiled buzzard!

[lonestarnot]

1. kick!

[pretzel4gore]

2. boiled buzzard! haha

Cook Colbert really laid on the stinkweed salad too eh?

[lonestarnot]

3. layed it on the motherfucker is right. an american patriot that Colbert..

love his baby eagle at the S & D Zoo! Took a shit right on 'em! With their own fucking permission no less. :patriot:

[NYCGirl]

4. Go see his movie —

http://strangerswithcandymovie.com/

[lonestarnot]

5. Wouldn't miss it under any circumstances!

[lonestarnot]

6. kick

[lonestarnot]

7. kick for dick... shoot 'em in the face...

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Napoleon called the Figaro plays the true start of the French Revolution

Is Colbert the American Beaumarchais?



Portrait of Beaumarchais from ruevieilledutemple.fr.
Stephen Colbert from the Toronto Globe and Mail.

[applegrove]

9. You mean Moiere?

[Jack Rabbit]

11. No, Beaumarchais

Moliere wrote plays for the court of Louis XIV and sucked up to him.

Baumarchais wrote plays about 100 years later that lampooned the decadent aristocracy and lionized the common people.

[lonestarnot]

13. Don't know enough about French history to know who's who.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. From Wikipedia

From the entry Pierre Beaumarchais:

Beaumarchais's Figaro plays comprise Le Barbier de Séville, Le Mariage de Figaro, and La Mère coupable. They were some of the most important French plays, for the trilogy spans the most turbulent period of French history. Figaro and Count Almaviva, the two characters Beaumarchais most likely conceived in his travels in Spain, were (with Rosine, later the Countess Almaviva) the only ones present in all three plays. They are indicative of the change in social attitudes before, during, and after the French Revolution. The two began in a formal master-and-servant (albeit light hearted) relationship, in Le Barbier; the two became rivals over Suzanne in Le Mariage, a personification of class struggle in pre-revolutionary France; and they finally join hands again to thwart the evil schemes of Bégearss, an attempt to call for reconciliation in La Mère. Further, Beaumarchais also dubbed La Mère "The Other Tartuffe", to pay homage to the great French playwright Molière, who wrote the original Tartuffe.

To a lesser degree, the Figaro plays are semi-autobiographical. Don Guzman Brid'oison (Le Mariage) and Bégearss (La Mère) were caricatures of two of Beaumarchais's real-life adversaries, Goezman and Bergasse. The page Chérubin (Le Mariage) resembled the youthful Beaumarchais, who did contemplate suicide when his love was to marry another. Suzanne, the heroine of Le Mariage and La Mère, was modelled after Beaumarchais's third wife, Marie-Thérèse de Willer-Mawlaz. Meanwhile, some of the Count monologues reflect on the playwright's remorse of his numerous sexual exploits.

Le Barbier premiered in 1775. Its sequel Le Mariage was initially passed by the censor in 1781, but was soon banned from performance by Louis XVI after a private reading. The King was unhappy with the play's satire on the aristocracy. Over the next three years Beaumarchais gave many private readings of the play, as well as making revisions to try to pass the censor. The King lifted the ban in 1784. The play premiered that year and was enormously popular even with aristocratic audiences. Mozart's opera premiered just two years later. The final play, La mère was premiered in 1792 in Paris. All three plays enjoyed great success, and they are still frequently performed today, at theatres and opera houses.

[lonestarnot]

22. Tanks Jack de Wabbit!

[applegrove]

21. Okay Moliere wrote a play that had figaro in ti.

[jokerman93]

10. Revolution???

Isn't it time???

[lonestarnot]

12. Kick'n ass!

:kick:

[Jack Rabbit]

14. It's time to intensify resistance to tyranny

I would be reluctant to call it revolution, since we would be satisfied with returning to a rule of law under the Constitution we have. In that respect, we are really being reactionary, but that word is not being used in its usual pejorative sense in this case. The radical in this case is Bush and the regime's Nixonian unitary executive doctrine, which is presidential dictatorship.

I have suggested a radically revised Constitution here in the past that would abolish the presidency as we know it and divide the duties of the president between the leader of the House of Representatives and the committee chairmen (the Prime Minister and his cabinet) and the Senate (which would have the power to veto some legislation and advise and consent to some appointments). The President is a figurehead who more or less corresponds to the present President Pro Tem of the Senate and under carefully prescribed circumstances, dissolves the House of Representatives and calls general elections.

This document also directly addresses some of grievances against His Imperial Incompetency and against unbridled corporate power.

I wouldn't call this idea particularly revolutionary either, if what you mean by revolution is a rapid transformation from capitalism to socialism. It is really more of an adjustment to the present arrangement to alleviate problems of executive power and of the power of the wealthy over our personal lives. In this respect, it is consistent with the overarching principle of American political theory: a fear of power.

[lonestarnot]

15. hmmmmmmmF

[jokerman93]

20. excellent reply

And I agree JR. Good to see you posting more lately.

[zippy890]

17. Colbert on 60 minutes tonight

interviewed by Morley Safer

- Colbert's catching peoples' attention!!

[lonestarnot]

27. oh yeah.... hmmm hadn't heard that will watch.

[notadmblnd]

18. as Stephen would say.....

"Fill me with money!"

[Hamlette]

19. what we need to do. . .

is fund a "chair" for an investigative reporter. It's what the world needs now...(la la)

[lonestarnot]

23. Investigative reporter? we fund? another hmmmmfffff

[Hamlette]

24. think about it....wouldn't you love to have Robert Redford on your payroll

well....I mean....as a reporter.

[lonestarnot]

26. nah, you can though.

[lonestarnot]

29. kick for the doubters my 2 cents!

[lonestarnot]

25. kickin' to the top as a reminder!

[lonestarnot]

28. kick

[lonestarnot]

30. Oh no he didn't flop!

[Initech]

31. Colbert gets his own Brass Balls award!

For having "muchos huevos grandes":